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Carbon Wallets Next?

Listen to Barbara Baarsma, CEO of RABO CARBON BANK:

Get all of that?  In Dutch or English, it was PLAIN ENOUGH.

CARBON IS NOW BANKABLE.

Here’s your new footprint:

And here is the FRUIT of a Swedish company called Doc Ono which by the way, has been ENDORSED by Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum.  It’s called DOCONOMY, and it’s the latest in credit cards.

ONE WITH A CARBON SPENDING LIMIT.

Check it out:

Will owning a card like this now — or at some point — be REQUIRED?

Well, it looks like it’s being seriously PITCHED in Doc Ono’s home country, Sweden.  Here’s Patricia Espinosa, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, providing her RINGING ENDORSEMENT:

WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING ONCE CHINA IMPLEMENTED ITS SOCIAL SCORING SYSTEM?

GOVERNMENTS, OF NECESSITY, ARE INSTRUMENTS OF CONTROL, AND AS THE NATURE OF RISKS EVOLVE, SO WILL THE MEANS BY WHICH GOVERNMENTS SEEK TO MITIGATE THEM.

IS THE IDEA OF AN ENFORCED REDUCED-CARBON FOOTPRINT — should it come to that — A DIMINUTION OF FREEDOM OR A CRITICAL TACTICAL WEAPON IN FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE?

OR IS IT MERELY TOO LATE TO FIGHT OVER?

WE SHALL SEE.

Tudor’s Essential Hard Bop, Volume II

Coming right back at ya.  An awesome array of sides and talent.

But I’ve now revised this collection since my initial posting.  It’s now LEE MORGAN HEAVY as he was perhaps the EMBODIMENT OF THE FORM.  And, BELIEVE ME, there’s some INCREDIBLE LEE MORGAN here, both as leader and Art Blakey sideman. 

As for Phil Woods and Charles Mingus, originally included here, their talents were somewhat MORE DIVERSE than strictly those of HARD BOPPERS, so I yanked them.  I simply wanted to keep this and the previous set as GENRE-PURE as possible.

  • John Coltrane
  • Lee Morgan
  • Art Blakey 
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Eric Dolphy
  • Eddie Davis

TRANE

LEE

BUHAINA 

CANNONBALL

ERIC

LOCKJAW

Livable Cities . . .

. . . or Not

For those of you KEEPING SCORE AT HOME, I’ve been to ALL of the most livable ones and several, MANY TIMES.  My TWO FAVORITES?  Amsterdam and Zurich.

May Day, 1992, in Amsterdam ranks as one of the best one-day experiences I’ve had — coming as it did in the middle of a three-week European business trip.

As for Zurich, my many visits there — including to Swiss Re’s HQ which a colleague of mine dubbed THE KREMLIN — left me with an ENDURING SENSE of what CIVIC ORDER can look like.  So much so that when it came time to decide on a site for overseas PRECIOUS METAL STORAGE,  Zurich won out in a rout.  

As for the least livable, the only one I’ve been to is Harare where, after accidentally knocking a guy off his bike — he’d pedaled up onto the WOODEN SIDEWALK — I was surrounded by an ANGRY MOB and had all I could do to talk them down and make my way to the SHERATON at the edge of town.  I’d gone there solely on business, so, yes, DO AVOID ZIMBABWE.

The Danger with Woke Policies in the Workplace

If this article by Janice Hisle at The Epoch Times is an accurate reflection of what’s going on at Southwest Airlines, and if similar developments are taking place at other airlines and/or in other industries, it should now be apparent JUST HOW MUCH this WOKE NONSENSE is COSTING US.

Woke Airline Policies Threaten Safety, Workers Say

Some excerpts from the piece:

FROM THE AIRLINE WITH HEART TO THE AIRLINE WITH “MORAL RECTITUDE“

  • “Southwest Airlines Co. is basking in accolades for its ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) efforts, award-winning customer service, and record-breaking quarterly revenues.
  • “Behind the scenes of that rosy picture, heartaches are afflicting Southwest, called “the airline with Heart” because of its heart-shaped logo and a corporate culture steeped in “The Golden Rule,” treating others the same way they’d like to be treated.”

DEI OVER SAFETY

  • “But eight current Southwest employees, including three minorities, told The Epoch Times that “woke, leftist” DEI policies, as implemented, have tarnished the cherished Golden Rule principle, fractured a once-cohesive workforce, and, ultimately, may put safety at risk.”

WHAT PRICE RACE, GENDER IDENTITY AND SEXUAL PREFERNCE?

  • “One Southwest flight attendant, a Hispanic female, said: ‘They are compromising safety for the sake of race, gender identity, and sexual preference . . . They’re risking people’s lives because of agendas.’”

A PROTECTED CLASS

  • “While promoting diversity sounds like a great idea, the inclusionary policies have actually become exclusionary at Southwest, employees say. Disparate treatment has divided their ranks into two distinct camps: those with ‘desirable’ or ‘approved’ personal, social, or political characteristics—and those without.
  • “Minorities or people with leftist political views, varying gender identities, and alternative sexual orientations appear to be given wide latitude. This ‘protected class’ is allowed to bend or break rules, and new hires in these classifications may be given extra chances to pass required skills tests, the employees said.”

DON’T BUCK COMPANY CAUSES

  • “At the same time, veteran workers—especially those who are white, heterosexual, and conservative—find themselves in the crosshairs for almost anything, including making a personal statement of religious or political beliefs, the Southwest workers said. Even minorities can be shifted into this targeted group if they espouse personal beliefs running counter to causes that the company supports.”

NO PLACE FOR WHITE MALE PILOTS

  • “Current pilots also say they have learned that hiring decisions are being driven by a job candidate scoring system; they’re unsure how long it has been in place, how it works, or whether it unfairly elevates minorities. The company controls all of that information.
  • “Still, the employees feel confident in anecdotal evidence suggesting that the scoring system, coupled with other hiring practices, could be producing a pattern of discrimination against men, especially white men who come from military backgrounds—previously highly sought-after job candidates. ‘We could be wrong, but I don’t think we are,” said one pilot who has military experience.'”

GUYS WITH SKIRTS AND MUSTACHES

  • “One flight attendant perceives that the company is making skewed, unfair hiring decisions, and creating a level of absurdity that’s hard to stomach. She knows of people who are related to Southwest employees and have college degrees—which go beyond the high-school education requirement for flight attendants—’and they don’t get hired, and yet we have this guy, with a mustache, in a skirt, distracting us all because the company wants to fight over his pronouns.’”

In my humble opinion . . . ?

NO WAY TO RUN AN AIRLINE.

EV Sales Explosion

Over the last 10 years EV’s have become ONE HOT ITEM.

Especially in Polluter-in-Chief, CHINA.

THE EARLY EV DAYS

EV Sales by Country in 2021

TESLA’S DOMINANCE IN THE US

Yet, the question remains — AT LEAST FOR ME — how much does the COAL-SOURCED POLLUTION that results from GENERATING THE ELECTRICITY needed to POWER EV VEHICLES offset — OR EVEN OUTWEIGH — whatever carbon reductions are realized from using fewer INTERNAL COMBUSTION VEHICLES.

HAS ANYONE DONE THE MATH?

Another of ‘Green’s’ Hidden Costs

Whoever thought GREEN ENERGY would produce UTOPIAN-LIKE RESULTS while helping ALL of HUMANITY both EVERYWHERE and at ALL TIMES was looking through GREEN-TINTED LENSES.

There’s ALWAYS a PRICE, whether it’s outside of your IMMEDIATE FIELD OF VISION or LURKING DOWN THE ROAD.

In the end, someone or some group or some society . . . PAYS.

From the AP:

‘The Sacrifice Zone’: Myanmar Bears Cost of Green Energy