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This sucks like all get out!!!!!!!!!
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Hashi Lebwohl wrote:
I am waiting for Antarctica to melt so I can move there and get in on the ground floor of a new nation/continent.
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Kinda interesting what the world would look like if both poles melted

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/maga ... line-maps/ :cry:
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California has a lot of wildfires right now. Contrary to what they will tell you, "climate change" is not the cause of the intensity and frequency of these fires. Instead, California's disastrous environmental policies which have been in place for decades are--they do not allow agencies or people to clear brush and so when the Santa Ana winds hit, combined with the lightning that sets off most of the fires, there is more than sufficient fuel to keep them raging out of control.

No other State with forests and forested hills has as many fires as California and the fires the other States have are not as deadly; therefore, California is the problem.
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Sky - need a subscribe to view the map.

Hashi - I can't think of anything Cali does correctly.
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sgt.null wrote:Hashi - I can't think of anything Cali does correctly.
They serve as an example for what not to do.

Texas should triple the price of the electricity we always sell to California. Better yet--stop selling our excess electricity to California completley since they have a travel ban against us.
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And Cali will not enter a repriocity on our gun laws with us either.
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sgt.null wrote:And Cali will not enter a repriocity on our gun laws with us either.
The leak which finally broke the dam on making non-heterosexual marriages legal was the "if it is legal in one State the other States must recognize it" argument. Following the exact same logic, if I have a conceal carry license here in Texas--or even an open carry license--then every other State must allow me to conceal (or open) carry a handgun. Failure to do so violates the "full faith" clauses all States must have with each other.

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That double tropical storm in the Gulf....don't freak out over that--the phenomenon is common enough that it has a name: Fujiwhara effect.
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Missionaries gain access to Amazon's Indigenous peoples, despite pandemic [In-Depth]
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Uncontacted Indigenous people look up at an aircraft in the western Brazilian state of Acre in 2009. (Government of Acre/Creative Commons/Gleilson Miranda)


SAO PAULO -- When the first COVID-19 cases hit Brazil in March, the government agency in charge of protecting the country's Indigenous peoples, the National Indigenous Foundation, ordered all civilians to leave the Indigenous reservations. Only essential workers, such as health care personnel and those involved in food distribution, could remain.

But a new law signed by President Jair Bolsonaro on July 7 has made an exception for one group: Christian missionaries. A simple form from a doctor vouching for a faith worker's health is enough to allow the person to stay as an essential worker.

According to Eliesio Marubo, a lawyer for the Indigenous Peoples Association of the River Javari Valley, known as UNIVAJA, some missionaries had never heeded the order to leave. "A few villages reported that there were evangelical missionaries in their areas who refused to go away," Marubo told Religion News Service.

In April, UNIVAJA sued to force the expulsion of several evangelical missionaries, at least two of whom are U.S. citizens, from the Javari Valley, an important legal victory against a group that is closely aligned with Bolsonaro.

Now, Indigenous groups and those who defend their rights worry that the new law will prompt missionaries to enter their reservations, which have long been protected by the Brazilian government in an effort to preserve their culture.

"We're questioning the legislation in order to restore the self-determination prerogative of the Indigenous peoples," explained Marubo, a member of the Indigenous Marubo people himself.

One of the missionaries expelled in April was Andrew Tonkin, a member of the Frontier International Mission, an independent Free Will Baptist mission ministry based in the United States that trains missionaries who are then sent by their home churches. One of its goals, according to its website, is to "establish mission work among the unreached Indigenous people groups across the world."

According to a story published by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo in March, Tonkin tried last year to get to the River Itacoaí, one of the Javari's tributaries.

"He already managed to approach an area of isolated peoples without authorization," said Marubo. "People who know him say that he believes that the men's rules don't apply because [his presence] is God's will."

In an email to RNS, Tonkin said the federal government granted him permission to go "into the reserve" to "help and better the life of the people. The people in the reserve also have every right as a community to invite who they wish to visit their village."

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Tonkin said his efforts in the Javari Valley are "a spiritual battle against evil and against darkness" and are not about "people and policy."


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A village of uncontacted indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Acre, in the Amazon, in 2009. (Government of Acre/Creative Commons/Gleilson Miranda)


Beto Marubo, one of UNIVAJA's coordinators, dismissed Tonkin's claim that he is welcomed by residents of the valley. "The only Indigenous persons who don't oppose their presence are the ones who were catechized by them," he told RNS.

He explained that previous encounters with the non-Indigenous society often ended in violence, especially during the Amazon rubber boom, which ended in the 1940s and saw many Indigenous people killed in their forests. "Now they're in the last place they found to be left alone, and these fundamentalists show up to disturb them."

He said that the missionaries' teaching, by introducing other ways of thinking about community and even the locals' cosmology, attacks the society as a whole.

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Beto Marubo believes the Bolsonaro administration supports the missionaries' activities in the Amazon. "He's backed by the evangelicals. There's a plan behind all this: The missionaries get into those territories, dismantle the policy of no contact and then the landowners appear to grab their lands," he said.

In February, Bolsonaro appointed the evangelical pastor and anthropologist Ricardo Lopes Dias to coordinate FUNAI's department of isolated Indigenous peoples. Dias worked with the Brazilian New Tribes Mission for several years. "It's all being orchestrated by the current administration," Beto Marubo said.


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Care of the earth, concern for migrants are connected, cardinal says
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Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican's Migrants and Refugees Section, stands on the terrace of the Jesuit residence in Rome where he lives and, during the coronavirus lockdown, works. (CNS photo/courtesy Cardinal Czerny)


VATICAN CITY -- Catholics will mark the World Day of Migrants and Refugees during the ecumenical celebration of the Season of Creation, highlighting the obligation, as Pope Francis says, to listen to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, said Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny.

"With Pope Francis, we hope to come out of the COVID crisis better than before: more welcoming, more cooperative, more sharing, more attentive to the needs of our common home and everyone in it, and closer to our loving God and creator," said the cardinal, who is undersecretary at the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

The Catholic Church and Christians around the world mark Sept. 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and celebrate the Season of Creation from that date through Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The World Day of Migrants and Refugees is Sept. 27.

The "common thread" among the celebrations, especially in 2020, the cardinal said, "is our common home in which the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor are one cry."

"Among those forced to flee are those driven from their homes by the climate crisis, which takes many different forms around the world: fires, flooding, drought, storms, etc.," the cardinal told Catholic News Service Aug. 26.

And, he noted that in Pope Francis' message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, he wrote: "To preserve our common home and make it conform more and more to God's original plan, we must commit ourselves to ensuring international cooperation, global solidarity and local commitment, leaving no one excluded."

"Clearly," the cardinal said, "these words apply with equal precision and urgency to how everyone needs to respond to threats to our natural environment" and not just to the situation of migrants and refugees.

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"During the COVID lockdown, people discovered that basic and essential services were often provided by foreign seasonal workers and recently arrived refugees and migrants," he said. "These include utter necessities like healthcare, food, maintenance, security, deliveries, etc. etc."

"We didn't notice" those workers; "we took them for granted until COVID stopped them from working or even coming," he said.

And, the cardinal said, "We have been equally oblivious to the bounty of nature: we have taken the environment for granted, until human interference in the forms of pollution and careless extraction, production and consumption stopped nature from giving us what we need."

"The two situations are more than parallels; they connect concretely in the area of food production," he said. "The need for the energies, talents and creativity of migrants has become more evident everywhere; so too has the need for ensuring the survival of earth, air and water."


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The Amazon faces two crises: Coronavirus and deforestation [In-Depth]
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A member of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources fire brigade attempts to control a fire in a tract of the Amazon jungle in Apui, Brazil, on Aug. 11. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)


Exactly one year ago, Brazil experienced deforestation and fire indexes in the Amazonian forest that reached then record highs. Escalating during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro's government, this environmental crisis cast Brazil as a major global eco-villain.

This year conditions are even worse. Deforestation alerts issued by a satellite-based monitoring system report that losses this year may be about 35 percent higher. From Aug. 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020, more than 9,205 square kilometers, about 3.554 square miles, of Brazilian Amazon forest are threatened.

But those ecological offenses have been overshadowed by an arguably graver crisis, according to members of the local church, the government's disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic. "The government has shown that it has little or no interest in providing adequate health care," Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the president of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (known as Repam), told America by email.

But at least a few global leaders have been able to keep their eyes on two Amazonian crises at the same time. Asked if Pope Francis were aware of the increasing degradation of the Amazon, Cardinal Hummes replied: "Absolutely."

The Synod of Bishops on the Amazon in 2019 defined the current economic model applied to the region as unjust and unsustainable. In an allusion to the fires last year that burned the largest tropical forest in the world, Pope Francis said that the Amazon really needed the "fire that comes from the love of God."

According to Cardinal Hummes, the nation's reputation for ecological stewardship has been severely undermined by the Bolsonaro administration. "The world no longer trusts the justifications of the Brazilian government," he said.

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According to Cardinal Hummes, the church should accompany Amazonian peoples "in their historical journey, especially Indigenous peoples," he said. Among the proposals that emerged from the Amazon synod in 2019, he highlighted the need to promote "self-determination of the original peoples so that they may be protagonists in their history, and not the object of projects by those who only seek to extract wealth from their soil, their forests and their biodiversity."

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"Rebuilding Brazil's credibility before the world will take a lot of time and concrete results," Cardinal Hummes said. For now, he said, "one cannot believe in a real change in direction by this government." He added that, even if the official discourse is softening, "the real intention is to distract" from the ongoing ecological degradation of the Amazon.

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Cardinal Hummes believes that [Brazil environment minister, Ricardo Salles' recent statements] are "a dishonest way to leave everything as it is and even to speed up the devastation of the territory, while distracting public opinion with many meetings, speeches, theoretical, ideological and political discussions."

The ecologist Ima Vieira, who was an expert at the synod, told America that creating a development model for the Amazon cannot be an isolated project but should be comprehensive and shared by all civic actors and concerned Amazonian states. According to Ms. Vieira, a researcher at the Emilio Goeldi Museum and an advisor to Repam, the main conflict in the region is between powerful multinational economic interests, especially in agribusiness and mining, and local communities that wish to promote ecologically sustainable initiatives.

"There is an interest in the appropriation of regional goods by the private sector, ignoring the needs of local actors," she said. "It is necessary to question whether it is possible to build a new development paradigm in the Brazilian Amazon, reconciling and converging such diverse interests. I do believe it is."

Ms. Vieira confirms that the inspection, control and monitoring of forests have decreased over the past two years. She believes the government stewards of the Amazon should aim for "zero deforestation and degradation."

Sustainable forest management techniques have been applied on a small scale by many communities. She also proposes the formal demarcation of Indigenous lands and areas that for centuries have been home to Afro-Brazilian communities (known as quilombola). In most cases, demarcations have been pending for years.

"Mining and illegal logging bring huge risk to Amazonian communities, and this has been [adversely] impacting the territory and the peoples by perpetuating high deforestation and fire indexes," she said. "We should be encouraging a forest economy that preserves local peoples' rights to use and manage their lands, avoiding the clearing of native forests, as well as promoting justice, social equality and respect for cultural diversity," Ms. Vieira said.


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Oklahoma governor asked EPA to strip tribes of environmental authority [In-Depth]
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt address his remarks during a roundtable discussion with Governors and small business owners on the reopening of America’s small businesses Thursday, June 18, 2020, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Stitt has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American reservations (White House/Shealah Craighead)


GOP leaders quietly working to circumvent Supreme Court ruling giving tribes control of half the state.


Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in The Young Turks, and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

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Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American reservations. This would include regulating fossil fuels, a multi-billion dollar industry which donated $239,102 to Stitt this election cycle.

This move could destroy opportunities for tribal leaders to reduce pollution and fossil fuel dependency in the eastern half of Oklahoma, effectively thwarting July's Supreme court ruling giving the tribes sovereignty over the vast area.

Stitt revealed his EPA request in a little-noticed webinar hosted by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, a farming trade group. The farm bureau's president, Rodd Moesel, noted that in 2005, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) attached a midnight rider to an appropriations bill, creating a federal law that the EPA must regulate environmental issues on the state’s tribal land or, if requested, the state of Oklahoma gains regulatory control.

In the Aug. 3 webinar, Stitt explained, "The EPA will regulate environmental issues. That's good and bad. It’s good right now with President Trump's environmental folks at the helm. And could be bad if there’s a switch in the administration."

What Stitt considers a "good" EPA, during the Trump Administration, rescinded some 100 regulations governing vehicle and power plant exhaust, mercury and carbon tetrachloride poisoning, water and air pollution, and drilling on federal lands and waters.

In the following exchange, Stitt confirmed that he had already asked Wheeler to use the midnight rider's authority to give regulatory control to the state:
Stitt: … that's what the safety is, something that Inhofe got across the finish line for us.

Moesel: And it had a provision, I think, that gave the state — if there was a change in the sovereignty rulings — to request the ability for the state to administer environmental rules within the Indian Territory…And that‘s essentially the request I think you just made to Mr. Wheeler who heads the EPA and to give the state that regulatory authority, if I understand correctly.

Stitt: Yes. That’s correct.

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Shortly after the ruling, Stitt had said publicly and repeatedly that he intended to work with his state’s Native Americans on the jurisdictional issues. "I respect and recognize the sovereignty of every Tribe in Oklahoma and look forward to working with every Tribe to ensure that we meet our shared economic, security and social goals," he said in a press release two weeks prior to the webinar.

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Later Stitt said about the Supreme Court ruling, "The problem is a couple of the chiefs I've talked to think it's fantastic, it's a great, it was a great day for their people. It validated what they've always believed: That they're sovereign over this jurisdiction, so they don't see any need for, for a congressional fix or federal legislation to fix anything. They're happy to have us [conduct] government-to-government negotiations."

So Stitt has asked the EPA to turn over regulation of environmental issues on Reservation land to the state agency, which must be done because of the federal rider Inhofe maneuvered in 2005.

Will the EPA agree? Consider this: Andrew Wheeler, the present EPA administrator worked 14 years as an aide to Inhofe, who maneuvered that federal rider stealing tribal rights to environmental regulations on reservations.

And denying tribes environmental jurisdiction could be a major boon to the fossil fuel industry, hurting now because of the pandemic slowdown. Although some tribal leaders may be inclined to pursue much-needed revenue from pipelines and drilling, others favor stricter measures, such as a ban on fracking.

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People raft and kayak in the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma. In July 2020, the Supreme Court legally affirmed that most of eastern Oklahoma is still various Native American reservations in McGirt v. Oklahoma. (Unsplash/Rod Ramsell)


Eastern Oklahoma

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History: The Trail of Tears

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The new war in Oklahoma

Last month’s Supreme Court ruling [i.e. McGirt v. Oklahoma] pits Oklahoma’s white ruling class against these five Native American tribes. The high court ruled that they are still legal sovereign nations, governing most of eastern Oklahoma. What was three million acres under tribal and federal jurisdiction reverted back to the original 19 million acres. Beyond criminal law, this has become a battle for the economic control and self-determination of the eastern half of the state and sent shock waves still reverberating through the state. In one fossil-fuel industry publication an oil executive was said to be "worried that tribes could impose new taxes or environmental restrictions on developers." Potentially billions are at stake and could mean tribal or federal regulations for oil and gas facilities that in Oklahoma previously have had few restrictions. A conservative think tank described it as, "chaos."


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A storm builds over farmland in Oklahoma. Native American environmentalists believe the Supreme Court ruling on the Muscogee Tribal sovereignty provides an opportunity to move the state to a more sustainable, less polluted future. (Unsplash/Raychel Sanner)


Green tribal sovereignty?

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Fossil fuel versus tribes. Two sides organize for battle.

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