Portland’s climate tax could fund energy-efficiency upgrades for 3,100 homes
Portland’s climate action fund is preparing to invest $140 million toward 3,100 home retrofits over the next five years. The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease energy usage, lower utility bills and increase housing resilience for qualified homeowners, renters and multifamily homes within Portland city limits
With Russia's military stocks running low and domestic production capacity simultaneously hampered by Western sanctions, North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missiles and over 3 million artillery shells.
from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
Shoot a Black Lives Matter protester?
-- Forgiven.
Be a Nazi and walk downtown waving a Nazi flag?
-- Police escort to do so.
Attempt to overthrow the government?
-- Freely run for re-election.
Peacefully protest for Black Lives Matter, or Israel's treatment of the people in Gaza, or against Nazis, or Trump? A beating, jail time, possibly death, and those who do this to you, forgiven.
I assume Biden must have spent his whole life wanting to be President.
And when he finally became one in his late 70s after decades in politics, he has blown it & become Genocide Joe & now risks losing to Trump.
Why? Is it because he's too steeped in the American/ Israel industrial/ military complex, donor interests & aggressive zionism to know or do otherwise.
But even that doesn't explain why he won't use his power & stop the slaughter.
When will enough be enough? #Biden#Israel#USA
"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott... pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal #shooting of a protester during a #BlackLivesMatter march...
What do you do when you're a happy camper but your partner is less keen on a night under canvas? Wally Byam's solution was to invent the Airstream, which started in the late 1920s as a wooden platform atop the chassis of a Ford Model T and by 1937 was a sleek aluminum-clad trailer marketed as "an airplane without wings ... luxurious in the extreme." Here, @Smithsonianmag looks at the origin and evolution of this American classic.
US imposes sanctions on Russians who helped transport weapons from North Korea to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
With Russia's military stocks running low and domestic production capacity simultaneously hampered by Western sanctions, North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missiles and over 3 million artillery shells.