#SmokeAndMirrors by #Granholm and #DOE: Direct air capture increases carbon dioxide emissions and air pollution.

$1.2B is a #subsidy for #AcceleratingKeelingCurve so the #fossilfuel industry can continue creating #climaterefugees with fires floods and extreme heat and stoke the far right to #FoamAtTheMouth.

#TheGreatGame

89 years ago:
The Great Game (FR)
Original title: Le Grand Jeu
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrad...
1934-05-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/166883
#TheGreatGame #JacquesFeyder #ClassicMovies

Reading "On Horseback through Asia Minor" by Fred Burnaby and cannot help but notice the uncanny similarities between that political moment in #TheGreatGame and the current conflicts between Europe and #Russia. #History