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21 April 20
Michael Moore and Cornel West | "Vote for Biden, but Don't Lie About Who He Really Is"
Michael Moore and Cornel West, Rumble Podcast
Excerpt: "Dr. Cornel West is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. In the wake of Bernie Sanders' exit from the Presidential race, and in the midst of the global pandemic, he joins Michael to discuss choosing sides between milquetoast neoliberals and vicious neofascists, Ludwin von Beethoven, Jim Clyburn and wrestling with despair."
Michael Moore and Cornel West, Rumble Podcast
Excerpt: "Dr. Cornel West is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. In the wake of Bernie Sanders' exit from the Presidential race, and in the midst of the global pandemic, he joins Michael to discuss choosing sides between milquetoast neoliberals and vicious neofascists, Ludwin von Beethoven, Jim Clyburn and wrestling with despair."
Dr. Cornel West is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. In the wake of Bernie Sanders' exit from the Presidential race, and in the midst of the global pandemic, he joins Michael to discuss choosing sides between milquetoast neoliberals and vicious neofascists, Ludwin von Beethoven, Jim Clyburn and wrestling with despair. [The following is an excerpt of the interview]
ello Everybody this is Rumble and I'm Michael Moore. Thank you for tuning into my podcast today. This is episode 70. 70 episodes since we began on December 17th, four months ago. So, thank you to all of you who have been with me from the beginning and to those of you who have just joined me, wellcome. We hit our eight-millionth listener, eight-millionth download this past weekend. Eight-million! In less than for months. Amazing. Thank you.
I have with me a very special guest, one of the great thinkers in this country and certainly one of the great activists for decades. Someone who has led many fights for all the good people, for all the good causes. He is a voice for many, many people. He is a professor of public philosophy at Harvard University. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton. Uh, that's a lot of ivy going on there. If you ever met him or seen him, ivy is not what runs through his veins. He has so much compassion and love, and fight in him for all the rest of us. I'm grateful to have him on my show. I'm going to ring him up on the phone. That is how we're going to have to do this today in the pandemic era of podcasts. [...]
Cornel West: You know the last time I was in Flint and I introduced myself I said I'm in the city of Dee Dee Bridgwater and Betty Carter. They are so much a part of me but I got some Michael Moore inside of me too. That's right on the tape. So I wanted to talk about Bernie coming out of the Jewish sections of Brooklyn and all of the wonderful ways in which he exemplifies so much of the best of that secular Jewish tradition. You know, my dear brother and uh, he's a human being so we criticize him and make him accountable like everybody else. But at the same time if you're honest about the deep love and respect that one has and I have for him and I have for you, and I have for others as well.
Michael Moore: No, thank you for that. That was so kind and generous of you to say that. And thank you for going to Flint by the way and mentioning those two great singers that are also from Flint. Cornell, Seriously ... we're in some deep shit.
The Bridge of the Americas connects Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In New Extreme, Trump Says He Will Issue Order to Suspend Immigration to the US
Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey and Teo Armus, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Trump announced in a tweet late Monday night that he plans to suspend immigration to the United States, a move he said is needed to safeguard American jobs and defend the country from coronavirus pandemic, which he called 'the Invisible Enemy.'"
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Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey and Teo Armus, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Trump announced in a tweet late Monday night that he plans to suspend immigration to the United States, a move he said is needed to safeguard American jobs and defend the country from coronavirus pandemic, which he called 'the Invisible Enemy.'"
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On March 18, 2020, Project South and Hunger Coalition of Atlanta staff gathered to assemble personal care and hygiene kits for residents of Atlanta, a couple of days after schools and businesses closed in response to the novel coronavirus in Atlanta, Georgia. (photo: Project South)
Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid and How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "The term 'mutual aid' basically just means when people band together to meet immediate survival needs, usually because of a shared understanding that the systems in place aren't coming to meet them, or certainly not fast enough, if at all, and that we can do it together right now."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "The term 'mutual aid' basically just means when people band together to meet immediate survival needs, usually because of a shared understanding that the systems in place aren't coming to meet them, or certainly not fast enough, if at all, and that we can do it together right now."
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A healthcare worker and a patient. (photo: ABC News)
WHO Warns That Few Have Developed Antibodies to Covid-19
Sarah Boseley, Guardian UK
Boseley writes: "Only a tiny proportion of the global population - maybe as few as 2% or 3% - appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization."
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Sarah Boseley, Guardian UK
Boseley writes: "Only a tiny proportion of the global population - maybe as few as 2% or 3% - appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization."
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Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. (photo: Getty Images)
Furloughs Hit Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair
Hoffman writes: "Not even the so-called Southern White House can escape the economic sting of the coronavirus pandemic. Mar-a-Lago, the house that Grape Nuts built."
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Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair
Hoffman writes: "Not even the so-called Southern White House can escape the economic sting of the coronavirus pandemic. Mar-a-Lago, the house that Grape Nuts built."
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Indian paramilitary troopers stand alert in front of the shuttered shops in the city center, on September 24, 2019 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. (photo: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)
In Kashmir, the Coronavirus Means Increased Police Powers
Umar, Rauf, Haroon, Jacobin
Excerpt: "The lockdown that coronavirus has imposed upon much of the world is nothing new for those living in Indian-controlled Kashmir."
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Umar, Rauf, Haroon, Jacobin
Excerpt: "The lockdown that coronavirus has imposed upon much of the world is nothing new for those living in Indian-controlled Kashmir."
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The dramatic price drop in oil was caused because more oil is being produced than can be stored. Here, a field operator inspects the pipelines at the Federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve near Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 21, 2000. (photo: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)
Oil Prices Fall Below Zero for First Time in History
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "The dramatic price drop, from $50 to around negative $30 for the lead U.S. oil benchmark, was caused because more oil is being produced than can be stored."
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "The dramatic price drop, from $50 to around negative $30 for the lead U.S. oil benchmark, was caused because more oil is being produced than can be stored."
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il prices turned negative for the first time in history Monday as energy demand plummets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The dramatic price drop, from $50 to around negative $30 for the lead U.S. oil benchmark, was caused because more oil is being produced than can be stored, so buyers had to pay traders to take their May supply, The New York Times explained. This isn't entirely unexpected. The gap between demand and supply has been such that news outlets including EcoWatch reported this could happen in early April. But for climate activists, the incident highlights the instability of fossil fuels as an energy source.
"We are experiencing an unparalleled upending in our economies," 350.org's associate director of Fossil Finance Campaigns Brett Fleishman said in a statement. "And it is time for the fossil fuel industry to recognize that, from now on, the cheapest and best place to store oil is in the ground."
But it is uncertain what this dip in prices will mean both for fossil fuels and renewable energy going forward. The New York Times explained that Monday's price fall was partly because of how oil is traded. Future contracts for May expired Tuesday, which means buyers would have had to take possession of any oil purchased for the month despite a lack of storage space.
"The May crude oil contract is going out not with a whimper, but a primal scream," Pulitzer Prize-winning oil historian and vice chairman of IHS Markit Ltd Daniel Yergin told the Los Angeles Times.
But contracts for June closed at a relatively normal price of $20.43 per barrel, and it is hard to know what the coronavirus-induced oil crisis will mean for the renewable energy transition once lockdown orders are lifted. Oil demand has fallen by a almost a third compared to April of last year, according to International Energy Agency figures reported by TIME, and coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S. is at an all-time low, the Los Angeles Times reported. Carbon dioxide emissions are also down, but could ramp up again when the economy reopens.
Whether the recovery is based on fossil fuels or clean energy will depend on political decisions, energy researcher Alex Gilbert, a fellow at the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, told the Los Angeles Times.
"The big question with clean energy is probably what happens on the policy side," he said. "How much do China, the U.S. and the European Union pursue clean energy technologies as a stimulus method?"
Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, cautioned that oil demand could bounce back if people are afraid of taking public transportation following the pandemic.
"I live in New York City," Bordoff told the Los Angeles Times. "I think a lot more people will want to take personal cars if they have them, or even Ubers, before they get back in the subway again. When economies are struggling and people are struggling, environmental ambition in government policy wanes."
But some analysts think the oil industry will never be the same and that the world will never use as much oil as it did last year, as TIME reported. Many smaller companies will likely go out of business, and the larger companies will have less political power and feel more pressure to respond to the climate crisis.
In this view,, the coronavirus has only accelerated a reckoning for an industry whose product is a key source of global warming. Even last year, energy performed the worst of any sector on the S&P 500 stock index.
"The basic model is in pieces, it's fallen apart," director of finance at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) Tom Sanzillo told TIME. "This is an industry in last place."
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