U.S. and China agree to restart climate talks amid hopes of wider thaw (msn.com)
The United States and China, the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters, have agreed to restart formal climate change talks that had been on hold for more than a year, in a breakthrough that could inject momentum into international climate negotiations that begin later this month in Dubai.
The two countries said they would also step up coordination on curbing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and work together to speed up a transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
The announcements were made in a joint statement following meetings between U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry and his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, in Sunnylands, Calif., last week.
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China and US pledge to fight climate crisis ahead of Xi-Biden summit | China | The Guardian
China and the United States have pledged to work together more closely to fight global warming, declaring the climate crisis “one of the greatest challenges of our time”, hours before a key meeting in San Francisco between Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The announcement further fuels hopes the two nations can mend relations following years of turmoil over issues including trade, human rights and the future of Taiwan.
In a joint statement following climate talks in the US, they pledged to make a success of a crucial UN climate summit starting at the end of this month in Dubai.
And they recommitted to the 2015 Paris climate accord goals of holding global warming to “well below” 2C, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5C.
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What Joe Biden hopes to get from his high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping (msn.com)
in other news
The former president is sending loud and clear signals that a second Trump term would be a fascist nightmare, complete with mass immigration raids and internment camps. In Washington, Sen. Bernie Sanders diffused a physical confrontation between a fellow Senator and the head of the Teamsters.
Barbra Streisand offered up a neat and tidy defense of our President in last night’s Colbert interview:
Biden is ticking up in November polls:
down to the wire again and again and again
House passes bill to avert government shutdown, sends to Senate – The Washington Post
The “laddered” deadlines in the bill, called a continuing resolution or CR, are designed to allow the House and Senate to pass and negotiate full-year spending bills — though the two chambers are nowhere near an agreement on those — and avoid a massive year-end spending bill called an omnibus. It could still trigger two more standoffs that lead to partial government shutdowns early next year.
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Funds would expire for military and veterans programs, agriculture and food agencies, and the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development on Jan. 19. They would expire for the State, Defense, Commerce, Labor, and Health and Human Services departments, among others, on Feb. 2. The bill passed the House under a process called “suspension of the rules,” which required two-thirds of the chamber to approve the measure because some far-right Republicans refused to allow it to proceed under a lower threshold without spending reductions.
Leaders of both parties in the Senate have endorsed the proposal, and the upper chamber is expected to vote on the bill later this week.
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Attribution: Government Shutdown Day by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
wow, a rasmussen poll actually shows biden ahead? again WOW! they usually tweak and twist them toward you-know-who. or at least have done so in the past.
Yep, Pat. It is notable this Rasmussen Biden +4 (known for over-sampling Republicans) is what he got in 2020, enough to produce a 74 vote Electoral College lead
about that quote from karl’s book about punkin head thinking he’ll be reinstated before joe’s term is up shown on vid at 5:35 in: it’s kinda worrisome what with maga mike being 2nd in line for potus, the conspiracists might be hoping that something happens to install mike and then he’ll abdicate to (or switch with) donald after appointing him as veep. they’re a devious bunch.
also quoted here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-believed-fringe-conspiracy-he-could-be-reinstated-as-president/ar-AA1jOQlN
LP needs to to a side-by-side comparison between Mussolini, Orange Adolf, and the OG Adolf. Sandwich Orange’s hateful rhetoric between the others. It needs to air everywhere; online, Fox Noise, Superbowl, the next World Series.
Also, perhaps the Lincoln Project could also do an add with the Republicans propping up Orange the way Goebbles, etc., did Original Recipe Adolf. This should include his kids and their spouses.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-2025-trump-reagan-00115811
“In truth, the program laid out by Dans and his fellow Trumpers, called Project 2025, is far more ambitious than anything Ronald Reagan dreamed up. Dans, from his seat inside The Heritage Foundation, and scores of conservative groups aligned with his program are seeking to roll back nothing less than 100 years of what they see as liberal encroachment on Washington.”
“They aim to defund the Department of Justice, dismantle the FBI, break up the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate the Departments of Education and Commerce…”
“They want to give the president complete power over quasi-independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies that have been the bane of Trump’s political existence in the last few years.”
“And they want to ensure that what remains of this slashed-down bureaucracy is reliably MAGA conservative — not just for the next president but for a long time to come — and that the White House maintains total control of it.”
“…the controversial “unitary theory” of the Constitution under which Article II gives the president complete power over the federal bureaucracy — Dans has formed a committee to recruit what he calls “conservative warriors” through bar associations and state attorneys general offices and install them in general counsel offices throughout the federal bureaucracy.”
Oh, look, it’s a witch hunt!
“The Project 2025 team is scouring records and social media accounts to rule out heretics…”
Indoctrination camp, online!
“…launching a so-called Presidential Administration Academy that tutors future MAGA bureaucrats with video classes in “Conservative Governance 101.” Dans says 17 lectures have been prepared (with titles such as “Oversight and Investigations” and “The Federal Budget Process”), with another 13 in production, and nearly a thousand potential new bureaucrats recruited from around the country are already in training.”
It’s bigger than 215 pounds of awful!
“…many conservatives recognize they will have to compensate for Trump’s built-in liabilities. If they truly want to dismantle the “deep state” they believe they have to create, almost from scratch, a workforce that won’t sacrifice competence to Trump’s obsession with loyalty above everything else.”
“For Trump personally, of course, this is a live-or-die agenda, and Trump campaign officials acknowledge that it aligns well with their own “Agenda 47” program.”
“Dans and others involved in Project 2025 concede that their assault on the “administrative state” is not going to focus on politically delicate entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Veterans Administration programs and retirement plans, unemployment compensation and agricultural price support programs — all of which amount to about half the $6.3 trillion federal budget. “That is not going to be on the front burner,” Dans says.
So, on the back burner, waiting their turn on the chopping block.
“…the man who declared, “I alone can fix it,” and who routinely used to say — whether the subject was Covid-19 or nuclear weapons — that he knew more than the scientists and generals.”
“Kabaservice, a conservative himself who works for the libertarian-oriented Niskanen Center, concedes many of the Project 2025 plans for reform are “legitimate.”
“The deeper problem, Kabaservice says, is that “Republicans still don’t like the idea of expertise. They actually seem to believe all you need to know about running a country that underpins the global order is something you can know by being a mom.”
Or, a dad? Sure, it would’ve been easy to use the word parent, but mom sounds so much weaker in a patriarchy. But, point taken, Republicans hate expertise, science, Fauci, etc.
ps – Not a lick of this sounds Christian or pro-family, which are the things they use to obscure their maniacal thirst for never-ending power over everything and everyone.
Seek help!
Here again, I don’t see that he actually expects to be elected……I think he’s speaking to his soon to be formed army he’ll raise in support of his not so far off Govt-in-exile.
What a fifth column…..oy.
They have left christianity in the dust.
Well, no….they have actually adopted that old time religion—like the inquisition kind…..and the Crusaders kind…..they lust for the old days of blood and gore. They love those screams of pain in the fiery pit kinds of things.
It’s christ they’ve left in the dust.
Maddow breaks down the breakdown of our democracy on Colbert’s show.
The Marcos’ regime – Order 1081 – not so long ago. Get ready for the Christo-fascist Republicans to do the same, as soon as they have an opening.
Those fiery pits of hell really gets ‘em revved up.
Let’s Hear it for ETERNAL DAMNATION!
Sturge
I see you corrected your typo but I think the original “list for the old days of blood and gore” rather than lust works, In other words they just want to talk about it for the most part none of them would make a pimple on a bad man’s ass. And if confronted with a real bad man would shit all over themselves.
They are bunch of wannabees and the best way to deal with them is to make them deal with their stupidity. Lock them up , Lock them up for a long time. Do that and all the wannabees fade into the background, disappear.
Jack
The thing about living in the worlds I’ve lived in most of my life is I’ve seen these idiots. Listened to them, nothing surprises me. In modern life where the good folks separate themselves and live in the suburbs away from it all, they think the world is rational like them. I know better.
Jack
The great thing about being old and retired.
actually, several but 2 that come to mind right now. I can sleep in late and finish off my breakfast with an Irish Coffee. No waiting to 5pm.
Life is good
Jack
I guess California tried to make a little money by renting out the space underneath the overpasses. Evidently they are only good for storing lots of flammable stuff and as such do, it caught on fire. It shut down a major freeway and is costing way more than the few pennies they got in rent.
Jack
Trump’s sister (2020 audio recording): “All he wants to do is appeal to his base. He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this. His goddamn tweets and lying, oh my God.The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”
On cheating to get into Penn: “He got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams,” Barry said in the recording. SATs or whatever.”
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/23/trump-sister-said-president-has-no-principles-in-secret-recordings.html
Trump… the only white meat…
Manchin to explore WH run…
“I’m totally, absolutely scared to death that Donald Trump would become president again,” he said. “I think we will lose democracy as we know it.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/sen-joe-manchin-says-absolutely-consider-presidential-run-rcna125368?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=65550878acd806000192513d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=03
The recording is one from Dr. Mary’s stash that she brought out to disprove the sister’s denial of having made the statements that Dr. Mary disclosed in her book. She used to be close to her aunt until the book was published.
Dr. Mary’s “diagnosis” of the MAGAs is they feel like losers themselves and the Donald’s “loser-ism” lets them feel better about their “loser-itis.” As a clinical psychologist who worked in the psych wards, I’m sure she saw many such cases.
…not just democracy, Joe, but freedom itself.
Manchin? I thought FEC filing was Romney/Manchin as a third-party spoiler against the fascists that control the Republican Party.
Manchin is not the Joe we are looking for.
Biden/Harris 2024!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/fulton-county-proffer-video-leak-filing/index.html
“Portions of proffer videos – the legal term for videotaped conversations some of Trump’s co-defendants had with prosecutors – were leaked to several news outlets on Monday. ABC News and The Washington Post reported on the videos, including on-camera statements from former pro-Trump attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro as well as Atlanta-based bail bondsman Scott Hall.”
“And he said to me, you know, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,’” Ellis told prosecutors in the video. “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’”
“And he said, ‘Well, the boss,’ meaning President Trump and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him, he said, ‘the boss is not going to leave under any circumstance,’” she said, according to the video.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/fulton-county-proffer-video-leak-filing/index.html
“A leak of discovery materials in the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants prompted the Fulton County district attorney’s office Tuesday to file an emergency motion for a protective order in an attempt to prevent other material from becoming public.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/fani-willis-donald-trump-election-subversion-case-2024/index.html
“Fulton County District Fani Willis on Tuesday said she expects a trial in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies would be ongoing during the 2024 election and may not conclude until early 2025.”
https://puck.news/bidens-kennedy-curse/
“Mitt Romney, through his Senate office, said Monday that he “is not considering running for president on any ticket” in 2024.”
“The media fixation on Romney-Manchin is out of proportion to the real threat that almost nobody is talking about: Kennedy could very well be on the debate stage alongside Biden next fall, a nightmare scenario that could allow Trump to waltz into the White House.”
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00856070/1734870
What’s the “Draft Romney Manchin” filing about?
Joe Manchin got another think coming. He goes no where. Pompous ass.
Xi Jinping: ‘not an option’ for US and China to turn backs on each other – live (theguardian.com)
Xi: ‘Planet Earth is big enough’ for both US and China to succeed
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Filoli estate on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Woodside, California, U.S., November 15, 2023. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
President Joe Biden Meets with China’s President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. Photograph: Doug Mills/AP
>more from the guardian link above:
I’ll stick with Big Joe over little Joe. Little Joe was too scared to go up against Big Jim. Tucked his tail and ran away.
A day after getting my COVID and Flu vaccines I am feeling my immune system getting very unhappy, uck. My usual scrambled thought process is being constantly flushed down the tube.
Xi is one letter different than X, which the Firefox browser continues to flip to a little blue bird whenever twit flips it to X.
The twit is a full blown russian assest. May he enjoy puttie tea time.
NAFO OFAN fellas are taking over the “truth social” POS. It is fun watching the maga party folk get bent out of shape. They think we are a foreign intelligence agency, at the same time we are paid by CIA. There is no CIA, only NAFO. Millions of dollars have been collected to support Ukraine people and military. Slava Ukraini
hope you feel better by tomorrow, BB. With some people the double dose hits harder than the one-or-the-other. I don’t know if it’s more the case with long-haulers like you.
I triple dosed and had no reaction. Mrs. P doubled dosed and was down for the count for a day.
Had to look up NAFO OFAN – I don’t get out much. My best wishes to them.
well, i stress-tested the vaccine and went to an indoor concert
covid test positive 😔
show was amazing- worth it? Maybe.
if i die though? Maybe. 🎶 🕺
show was 5 days after vax and pharmacist said protection takes 10 days, so, my fault
Bink – sorry to hear. Paxlovid is the big load of happiness.
Pogo – cartoon dogs and sock puppets (Florks), that is us. There are a lot of other cartoon characters involved, but we usually just leave them alone, they will pee on the floor. Drives the ruzzians (yes, that helps too) crazy.
A side note: as most of you know I have a problem with russian spies trying to do spy stuff to me. Lately they are slowing down. Maybe the front lines in Ukraine are calling them? Also, the Chinese had been trying to figure out why the russians were interested in me. Well. They have slowed down too. Hmm. I suppose they finally figured out I was not worth the view. Or, they slowed down because two letter and President Biden were meeting – nah, no way. That is a funny.
Oh no, 5 days of avoiding terrible human beings, so sad 🎉 🕺
someone endangered my life last night, Sugar Beaaarrrr 🎶
i leave you my Vincent 1952 ✌️
to ride
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/15/texas-border-bill-immigrants-crime-mexico-response/
“The Government of Mexico reiterates its rejection of any measure that contemplates the involuntary return of migrants without respect for due process,” says the statement from Mexico’s secretary of foreign relations.
It added that Mexico, “recognizes the sovereign right of any country to decide the public policies that should be implemented in its territory,” but Mexico also has a right to defend the estimated 10 million people of Mexican origin in Texas and “establish its own immigration policies in its territory.”
“The Government of Mexico categorically rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to detain and return nationals or foreigners to Mexican territory,” the statement says.
“On Tuesday evening, the Texas House approved SB 4, which would make it a state misdemeanor to illegally cross the border from Mexico into Texas, empower Texas peace officers to arrest undocumented immigrants and require that a state judge order the person to leave the U.S. to Mexico in lieu of prosecution.”
On Wednesday morning, Abbott said on social media that he looks “forward to signing Senate Bill 4.”
Mexico is under no obligation to accept non-Mexican nationals from Texas.
“Mexico has agreements in place with the U.S. government to accept Mexican citizens and migrants from certain other countries when they are deported, and the sources said it would be unprecedented for Mexico to create a diplomatic relationship with a U.S. state over immigration matters.”
“Many of the immigrants entering the U.S. are not from Mexico, according to government data.”
“In Texas, a majority of Democratic lawmakers, at least one Republican senator and civil rights organizations say that SB 4 is unconstitutional because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled immigration laws can only be enforced by the federal government.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/15/texas-secession-texit/
“No taxes or Faucis, no speed zones or toll roads. No liberals, no gun laws. No windmills, no poor people. A separate currency, stock market and gold depository. “Complete control of our own immigration policy.” World-class college football, a farewell to regulators. And unthinkable, unimaginable wealth.”
“We are going to be so rich,” he chanted. “We’re gonna be rich. We are gonna be rich. We. Are. Going. To Be. Rich! … As soon as we declare independence, we’re going to be wealthy. I personally believe that our personal GDP will double in five to seven years.”
“The independence of Texas is good for humanity as a whole,” he added to cheers.
“Kamau-Imani, a Houston-based preacher, was among 100 or so people who spent the weekend at the Waco Convention Center for the first conference of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which since 2005 has advocated for the Lone Star State to break away from the United States — a “TEXIT,” as they call it.”
“Days before the meeting, the Texas Nationalist Movement announced that it was more than halfway to the roughly 100,000 signatures needed to put a non-binding secession referendum on the Texas Republican primary ballot.”
“Though they might not cross that threshold by the Dec. 1 deadline, TEXIT supporters nonetheless hailed it as a clear sign of progress.”
it’s right there in the constitution in unequivocal terms and the ameri-nazis didn’t a problem with it when trump used those powers, whoops
oops, nvm, yet another Constitutional crisis, hooray
https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/01/17/the-source-of-the-federal-governments-power-to-regulate-immigration-and-asylum-law/#:~:text=In%20Fong%20Yue%20Ting%20v,the%20enumerated%20powers%20of%20Congress.
Hope everyone is on the mend soon.
Bink – Which band did you hear?
I had vax number six two weeks before I went to see what’s left of Queen, but still wore a mask. Several folks with wicked coughs around me, but you never know if it’s just allergies/post-nasal drip.
My doc had me separate the flu shot and Moderna, but I still felt like heck after the covid vax. They’ve all taken me down, though. Never an issue with a flu shot. The pneumonia shot five years ago was worse, though.
here’s a song from the set
ok, sorry to monopolize the forum, kind of just have to sit in this room for 5 days (unlike the person that infected me 😡), so…😐
ok, i’ll go read a book, Slava Ukraine ✌️ ✌️
“ I went to see what’s left of Queen”
(…had an epiphany that Zeppelin and Queen are the same band- Mercury could sing for Zep, Plant could sing for Queen, Brian May and Jimmy Page have very similar styles, cool you went to that show 👍)
((the friend i went with that hasn’t had a vax in over a year and was standing next to me the whole time is testing negative, i am definitely positive, weird))
(((…and no, the vaccine does not induce a positive test result)))
Will be going to see the Blind Boys of Alabama, or what’s left of them.
Ivy – Assume BBA replaced members, too. Enjoy! Live music is the best.
I finally bought a cheap turntable for $55 today, should I can listen to albums. I’m sure the speakers will be absolute crap, but it has Bluetooth to play music from my phone, too, so I’ll have plenty of poor quality music.
Bink – Like that band. Very chillaxing and jazzy.
Queen did make use of Freddie’s vocals a few times, most notably during “Bohemian Rhapsody” and a video of him to do call-and-response with us in the audience from the great beyond; fun/weird/sad.
You know, zooming along at 60 mph inside a chunk of metal is really just not too bright, all things considered.
Thanks, BID, we’re expecting that but still look forward to their performance. (They stuck by Imus even after “the fall.”)
Ok, i’ve retraced my steps and i’m pretty sure i know the exact moment i contracted covid, and i think i got it from “a surface”
So, be diligent with masking if concerned, but double-down on the hand-sanitizer and don’t touch your face is my advice
Great Bar Songs of America
Great Bar Songs of Amelica
Great Bar Songs of Amorica
G. B. O. A.
Once time moe
Remember: Government-in-exile It’s just a matter of time.
…succinct description of life, in general
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