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2020 Presidential Election: Biden v. Trump

TownieDeac said:
Would also recommend All the Shah's Men re: the British and American co-led coup in Iran, one of the more destabilizing events in the region's unstable history.
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All the Shah's Men - the inside story of the downfall of WF baskeball
 
Speaking of coups, yall heard anything about Bolivia since Evo Morales was deposed and an unelected Christian fascist took power? No? Yeah well, check this out:

http://https://theintercept.com/2020/06/08/the-nyt-admits-key-falsehoods-that-drove-last-years-coup-in-bolivia-falsehoods-peddled-by-the-u-s-its-media-and-the-nyt/
The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times

http://https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53067009
 
TownieDeac said:
Would also recommend All the Shah's Men re: the British and American co-led coup in Iran, one of the more destabilizing events in the region's unstable history.
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Yeah I consider this a must read for anyone discussing Iran today. Overthrows a country’s first ever democratically elected leader to protect our oil interests. Disgusting and directly responsible for where Iran is today.
 
Which is why Democrats like Biden (and Bernie) using antagonistic rhetoric about Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, is so completely craven - we're strangling these countries to death with sanctions and then blaming the material conditions on their political leaders inorder to erode those leaders popular support, just so that we can install replacement leaders who are basically puppets of western foreign policy and western corporate interest (Guiado).
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Yeah I consider this a must read for anyone discussing Iran today. Overthrows a country’s first ever democratically elected leader to protect our oil interests. Disgusting and directly responsible for where Iran is today.
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Haven't read that specific book, but I've read a couple of CIA books where Iran was mentioned and a book on Iran that Ed Christman suggested I read back in the day. What the US and USSR did to the developing world during the cold war was criminal. Just off the top of my head, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Cuba, DRC, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.
 
or you could just watch that new amazon jack ryan show
 
Here's Leah Stokes on Biden's climate plan

 
dang thought we were targeting 2035

it does cop a decent amount from green new deal
 
TownieDeac said:
the link says "by no later than 2050"
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2050 is net zero emissions economy wide, much bigger task. He is calling for clean power sector by 2035.

Power Sector: Move ambitiously to generate clean, American-made electricity to achieve a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035. This will enable us to meet the existential threat of climate change while creating millions of jobs with a choice to join a union.
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It's a good plan and I don't want to take away from its ambition. I don't think it moves the needle on 2C, but many climate scientists didn't think the much more ambitious Green New Deal did either.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Speaking of coups, yall heard anything about Bolivia since Evo Morales was deposed and an unelected Christian fascist took power? No? Yeah well, check this out:

http://https://theintercept.com/2020/06/08/the-nyt-admits-key-falsehoods-that-drove-last-years-coup-in-bolivia-falsehoods-peddled-by-the-u-s-its-media-and-the-nyt/
The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times

http://https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53067009
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Better link to bbc battery article.

www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-53067009
 
Cant edit the previous post.

The ability to extract three times as much lithium per ton of salt for roughly the same per ton cost would be a big help with lithium battery costs.
 
Deaconblue said:
Cant edit the previous post.

The ability to extract three times as much lithium per ton of salt for roughly the same per ton cost would be a big help with lithium battery costs.
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According to what i've read (definitely leftist biased sources) in the few years before the coup, Bolivia was taking bids from transnational corporations to extract lithium from the salt basin - with a major caveat that a large percentage of the profits from the lithium, post-extraction and refinery, had to go back to the Bolivian government inorder to fund social programs. The American and British transnationals backed out immediately. A German company initially signed on, and then tried to strong-arm Bolivia to change the terms, so Evo cancelled their agreement. The only company that agreed to the terms was a Chinese national firm. Before Evo was deposed, western corporations had been playing Bolivia against Brazil for Lithium extraction and refining contracts. With the de-nationalization of the resource, and the breakup of the indigenous Bolivian labor unions that actually work with the lithium, Bolivia is now a much more attractive option for foreign "investment".
 
I try not to get too far into the weeds with global economic conspiracy theory, but you don't have to look very deep to realize that America is still involved in a de-facto cold war with Russia/China, only now it almost entirely revolves around trade and the control of resources. There is a lot of speculation that western powers are trying to break up the Chinese control over the minerals that go into electronic manufacturing. This is particularly interesting as the world slouches towards green energy production, where we will become far more heavily reliant upon short term energy storage from solar, wind, etc.
 
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