Videos (1000) | Sift Talk (78) | Blogs (305) | Comments (1000) |
Videos (1000) | Sift Talk (78) | Blogs (305) | Comments (1000) |
Not yet a member? No problem!
Sign-up just takes a second.
Forgot your password?
Recover it now.
Already signed up?
Log in now.
Forgot your password?
Recover it now.
Not yet a member? No problem!
Sign-up just takes a second.
Remember your password?
Log in now.
The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned
good video but a rather important thing he missed is, that many governments DO pay brasil to maintain the rainforest-
"Norway has followed Germany in suspending donations to the Brazilian government’s Amazon Fund after a surge in deforestation in the South American rainforest. The move has triggered a caustic attack from the country’s rightwing president.
Bolsonaro rejects 'Captain Chainsaw' label as data shows deforestation 'exploded'
Read more
Jair Bolsonaro, whose move to meddle in the environmental organisation’s governance led to Norway’s decision, reacted by suggesting that Europe was not in a position to lecture his administration.
“Isn’t Norway that country that kills whales up there in the north pole?”, the Brazilian president said. “Take that money and help Angela Merkel reforest Germany.”
After weeks of tense negotiations with Norway and Germany, the Bolsonaro government unilaterally closed the Amazon Fund’s steering committee on Thursday. The fund has been central to international efforts to curb deforestation although its impact is contested.
Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, said the Amazon Fund had been suspended while its rules were under discussion.
In response, Ola Elvestuen, his Norwegian counterpart, said an expected payment of about $33.27m (£27.36m) would not take place as Brazil had, in effect, broken the terms of its deal. Norway has been the fund’s biggest donor, and has given about $1.2bn (£985m) over the past decade.
“He cannot do that without Norway and Germany’s agreement,” Elvestuen said. “What Brazil has shown is that it no longer wants to stop deforestation.”
This week Berlin had said it would withhold an expected payment of about $39m. Norway and Germany questioned an initial proposal from the Brazilian government for the fund’s steering committee to be reduced in size, and had warned against any weakening of the structures of the fund.
Grave concerns about the rate of deforestation since Bolsonaro took power have been repeatedly voiced by the Norwegian government and others.
According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, the government agency that monitors deforestation, the rate increased by 278% in the year to July, resulting in the destruction of about 870 square miles."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-amazon-fund-donation-dispute-brazil-deforestation-jair-bolsonaro
while I do agree that for 3rd world ex colonies it is extremely tiresome to hear lectures about ecology from the US and Europe, who tore up the planet to achieve their status and continue to consume far more than 3rd world people do, Bolsonaro is dead wrong here and sadly it has to be said this is what the democracy and capitalism produce: shortsighted win-now, defer the costs decisions.
lucky760 (Member Profile)
http://www.gocomics.com/brevity/2019/07/27
b4rringt0n (Member Profile)
Your video, Scene from the shining replaced with Jim Carrey - deepfake, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 27 Badge!
Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL
BOSE? Bose-Einstein condensate
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/7/27/they-really-do-exist-nasas-ghostbusters/
In a team of professional ghost busters, Anita Sengupta would most certainly be the enthusiastic and multi-talented leader. She’s already taken on roles developing launch vehicles, the parachute that famously helped land the Mars rover Curiosity, and deep-space propulsion systems for missions to comets and asteroids.
Sengupta and other members of the entry, descent and landing team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discuss the nail-biting details of the August 2012 landing.
Most recently, she’s carved out a niche as the project manager for an atomic physics mission, called the Cold Atom Laboratory, or CAL.
Since the mission was proposed in 2012, Sengupta has been leading a team of engineers and atomic physicists in developing an instrument that can see the unseen. Their mission is to create an ultra-cold quantum gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a state of matter that forms only at just above absolute zero. At such low temperatures, matter takes on unique properties that seemingly defy the laws of thermodynamics.
Best
Opening
Sketch
Ever.
lurgee (Member Profile)
Congratulations! Your video, ALWAYS AMAZING Official Trailer, has reached the #1 spot in the current Top 15 New Videos listing. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish but you managed to pull it off. For your contribution you have been awarded 2 Power Points.
This achievement has earned you your "Golden One" Level 27 Badge!
Zawash (Member Profile)
Congratulations! Your video, LEGO Particle Accelerator, has reached the #1 spot in the current Top 15 New Videos listing. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish but you managed to pull it off. For your contribution you have been awarded 2 Power Points.
This achievement has earned you your "Golden One" Level 27 Badge!
Mr. Willie - BAM!
Wal-Mart greeters were one of the good things going at the store, but now they're getting rid of so many people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/27/walmart-greeters-some-disabled-lose-their-jobs-customer-hosts/3010732002/
Trump Thrives on Cruelty
If they were 50% fair it would be worse for Trump, but even two years in they still can't believe everything he says is a lie, so they keep reporting it like it means something besides the ramblings of an Alzheimer's patient.
Even he would say your numbers are wrong, he thinks it's far more than 27/7/365, more like 32/12/427, or even 39/15/720
Poll numbers steady? Well, rock bottom is a stabilizer.
Meaga? Make Everywhere but America Great Again? Are you having a stroke?
Some mocking, just speaking truth with slight comedy.
Trump is knocking down falsehoods that in abundance by the left.
Media is 27/7/365 anti Trump and yet his poll numbers are steady. What would happen if media was at least 50% fair.
MEAGA 2020
Trump Thrives on Cruelty
Some mocking, just speaking truth with slight comedy.
Trump is knocking down falsehoods that in abundance by the left.
Media is 27/7/365 anti Trump and yet his poll numbers are steady. What would happen if media was at least 50% fair.
MEAGA 2020
Elaborate...I dare you.
You can't debate a single claim he made.
WKB (Member Profile)
Congratulations! Your video, How tax brackets actually work, has reached the #1 spot in the current Top 15 New Videos listing. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish but you managed to pull it off. For your contribution you have been awarded 2 Power Points.
This achievement has earned you your "Golden One" Level 27 Badge!
simonm (Member Profile)
Your video, Trump's Wall Has Changed a Lot: A Closer Look, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 27 Badge!
BSR (Member Profile)
Your video, Joe Wong: Building A Wall Didn't Work For China, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 27 Badge!
notarobot (Member Profile)
Your video, The Five Eyes: How the multinational spy network has grown, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 27 Badge!
C-note (Member Profile)
Congratulations! Your video, Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back) Trailer, has reached the #1 spot in the current Top 15 New Videos listing. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish but you managed to pull it off. For your contribution you have been awarded 2 Power Points.
This achievement has earned you your "Golden One" Level 27 Badge!
Moment When US Border Closed
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/670807343/fact-check-whats-happening-on-the-u-s-mexico-border