9.06.2012
Tar Sands Blockade chain themselves to equipment in protestKTRE
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Tar Sands Blockade's landowner solidarity actions hit home with 22 year old Houston-born blockader, Sarah Reid. “This pipeline affects me, my friends and my family directly.
Hong Kong hunger strikers take on 'brainwashing' in schools GlobalPost
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government ignores our feelings, so we need to use our bodies,” says
Tak-Wan Chan, a 23-year-old university student who has been on hunger strike for 87 hours. At stake, he says, is Hong Kong's special status as the most independent city in the ...
9.05.2012
nd GWDF2 D14a 'John Q's son was dead cept John saw when he had ENOUGH info to act.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D14a 'John Q's son was dead cept John saw when he had ENOUGH info to act.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D14a 'Much abdominal pain today. Discouraging.'
nd GWDF2 D14a 'Much abdominal pain today. Discouraging.'
9/5 Tracking Plan B - War Room
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Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT
Book 3: The Actionable Essentials of NASA's Dr. Hansen
Full title: "The Actionable Essentials Series (1): NASAs Dr.
Hansen - for fathers, mothers, older siblings, children, normal citizens
- victims all. From “Storms of my Grandchildren.”" DRAFT
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Posted: 04 Sep 2012 07:26 AM PDT
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Posted: 04 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT
Global Warming May Double UN Goal Without More Carbon Pledges
Businessweek - 5 hours ago
International pledges to reduce greenhouse gases may fail to stop global
warming from rising to twice the level deemed safe by United Nations
scientists, Climate Action Tracker said.
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Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:07 AM PDT
Action needed to prevent food price catastrophe: UNReuters
UN Urges Action to Avert Food CrisisWall Street Journal
Opinion:The food crisis and IndiaThe Hindu
In Depth:Can science prevent the great global food crisis?Telegraph.co.uk
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U Kentucky students rally against coal-industry funding The Courier-Journal
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Students at the University of Kentucky are planning to rally against the use of coal-fired energy on campus Wednesday and call for the school athletics department to sever ties with the coal industry. The UK Beyond Coal Coalition says it expects ...
US accuses BP of gross negligence over spill Financial Times
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By
Ed Crooks in New York The US Department of Justice intends to prove at
trial that gross negligence or wilful misconduct by BP caused the 2010
Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, government lawyers
have said, in the clearest statement ...
vid "For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle
"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle Obama (min 15:30)
"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle
"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle
9.04.2012
Hunger strike launched by Tibetan Youth Congress in India Examiner
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The three Tibetans taking part in the hunger strike
are the Vice President of the TYC, Dhondup Lhadar, organizational
secretary, Penpa Tsering, and cultural secretary, Jigme Sholpa.
Tibetans Cry Out for Haven From China in Dozens of Self-Immolations dailybeast
Tibetans Cry Out for Haven From China in Dozens of Self-Immolations
Since 2009 more than 50 people—two more just this week—have set themselves on fire to protest Beijing’s harsh rule. Can the world stop more?
9/4 Tracking Plan B - War Room - Subscribe
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:54 AM PDT
Today, hybrids and electric vehicles account for only about 3% of total U.S. sales
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/09/does-new-crossover-show-ford-is-serious-about-hybrids/1#.UETtJpbheQI
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:04 AM PDT
New York Times (blog)
Fuel Efficiency Standard Could Jump-Start Electric Cars
New York Times (blog) - 5 hours ago
In many ways electric cars are still inferior to their gas-powered
cousins. Charging the vehicles, especially from a regular home power
source, can take hours.
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:27 AM PDT
Extinction Rates Are Biased And Much Worse Than You Thought
Smithsonian (blog) - 32 minutes ago
However, this map is inherently biased. These are only documented
extinctions, after all. While the U.S. is undoubtedly skilled at
bulldozing wetlands to build shopping malls and shooting passenger
pigeons into extinction just for fun, we are also ...
One in five invertebrates at risk
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT
Great Barrier Reef now calcifying at halved rate
FIS - 2 hours ago
In recent decades, coral reefs around the world, home to large numbers
of fish and other marine species, have been threatened by human
activities such as pollution, overfishing, global warming, and ocean
acidification. This last process affects ambient ...
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:05 AM PDT
Severe drought dries up W. Wash. food banks' supplies
KOMO News - 11 hours ago
Parched land and withering crops stretch across thousands of miles of U.S. farm country sending food prices
soaring. That's tough enough on a family budget, but extra hard for
food bank charities like Food Lifeline which serve thousands of families
in ...
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Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT
Global weather woes could boost food manufacturers' input prices
FoodManufacture.co.uk -
3 hours ago
Short-term shortages of wheat for food processors and longer-term price
increases are likely to be the outcome of the wettest summer for a
century, a crop specialist has warned.
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Police: NJ boy, 6, killed saving sister in attack Newsday
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Region/State
Newsday > News Print Aa Police: NJ boy, 6, killed saving sister in
attack Originally published: September 4, 2012 10:56 AM Updated:
September 4, 2012 4:53 PM By The Associated Press PATRICK WALTERS
(Associated Press) (AP) -- A judge has ...
'Jesus is a monkey' graffiti in Israeli monastery The Times of Israel
'Jesus is a monkey' graffiti in monastery
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday denounced the vandals who spray-painted anti-Christian graffiti on the door of a monastery.
GWDF2 D13b Gandhi: 'It is the duty of the unviolent soldier to provoke a response.' paraphrase
Gandhi: 'It is the duty of the unviolent soldier to provoke a response.' paraphrase
GWDF2 D13b Book 3: The Actionable Essentials of NASA's Dr. James Hansen
- Book 3: The Actionable Essentials of NASA's Dr. James Hansen Full title: "The Actionable Essentials Series (1): NASAs Dr. Hansen - for fathers, mothers, older siblings, children, normal citizens - victims all. From “Storms of my Grandchildren.”" DRAFT
9.03.2012
Paul Ryan's lie about marathon timeSeattle Post Intelligencer
Paul Ryan's lie about marathon timeSeattle Post Intelligencer
nd GWDF2 D13a Stomach Pain back after 2 days. Huh?
nd GWDF2 D13a Stomach Pain back after 2 days. Huh?
9/3 - Tracking Plan B - War Room
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT
Weather holds the key to the world's food price volatility
Telegraph.co.uk -
1 hour ago
The index, which weighs the US dollar price of internationally traded
food commodities, shows that sharp price increases were felt across the
board in July. Rice, which fell 4pc, was the only major exception. The
price of maize and wheat rose by a ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 6 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just blowing in the wind
The Australian - 5 hours ago
Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base-load power and makes much
greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost of greenhouse gas
abatement at $1484 a tonne. Cumming used data published by the
Australian Energy Market Operator, which ...
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:13 AM PDT
The era of cheap food may be overThe Guardian
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:12 AM PDT
Eaton, DOE upgrading and downsizing hybrid power system
Autoblog (blog) - 2 hours ago
Eaton is working on upgrading its hybrid electric vehicle power control
system by reducing the size of the battery 50 percent and improving the
total performance of the system and its charge rate while maintaining
battery life, fuel economy and overall
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:31 AM PDT
Antarctic ice may cover 4 billion tons of methane
Winnipeg Free Press - 20 hours ago
LOS ANGELES -- Enormous reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane
could lurk beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, hastening the rate of global
warming if portions of the sheet collapse, according to a study
published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:51 AM PDT
Assateague: Climate change could threaten island's existence ...
Carroll County Times - 8 hours ago
A look at Assateague Island National Seashore,
located along Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is one of the places where
climate change could be disruptive if the Atlantic Ocean continues to
rise in the 21st century: $142 million: The amount of visitor ...
Report: Atlantic National
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Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital RollingStone.com
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The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.
Excesses of feudals: Peasant leader's longest hunger strike for rights The Express Tribune
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ISLAMABAD: Veteran peasant leader Comrade Ghulam Rasool Sehto's hunger strike has completed 100 days but the rulers seems unmoved.
Gaza teenager dies after self-immolation BBC News
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man has died in Gaza after setting himself alight in apparent protest
against his family's living conditions, Palestinian officials say.
Sgt. Foley, “An Officer and a Gentleman:” “I expect to lose half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary - fair and unfair - to trip you up, to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”
Sgt. Foley, “An Officer and a Gentleman:”
“I expect to lose half of you before I'm
finished. I will use every means necessary - fair and unfair - to trip you up,
to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”
9.02.2012
GWDF2 D12b 'The risk of doing nothing to avert Environmental Armageddon outweighs the risk of doing something potenitally suboptimal.....' Loving
GWDF2 D12b 'The risk of doing nothing, too little, too late... to avert Environmental Armageddon outweighs the risk of doing something potentially suboptimal. From the standpoint of 200 billion kids, anything is better than nothing, if it promises to be commensurate with, potentially proportional to the impending horror.' Loving, inspired by words of a Keystone XL obstructor in Texas, last week, in the news.
See recent post this site on Bonhoeffer - Who stands fast. Sublime.
See recent post this site on Bonhoeffer - Who stands fast. Sublime.
GWDF2 D12b 'If or when I'm imprisonned or institutionalized I expect to cease water as well.' Loving
GWDF2 D12b 'If or when I'm imprisoned or institutionalized I expect to cease water as well. Not that it matters. It doesn't. The next 200 billion children are what matter.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'And you? I'm a Soldier fighting the World War III of Terror of Environmental Armageddon from GHD dumping.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'And you? I'm a Soldier fighting the World War III of Terror of Environmental Armageddon from GHD dumping.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'If you've attained that which is Priceless, it you Everything.' Loving
nd GWDF2 D12b 'If you've attained that which is Priceless, it you Everything.' Loving
GWDF2 D12b Full AJ Muste Essay: "If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work."
"If men are not
willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of
commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice
the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly
non-violence will not work."
Single greatest compendium of
Essays on Unviolence -
Peace and Nonviolence
http://peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/
Full essay here >>> THE WORKABILITY OF NONVIOLENCE, A.J. MUSTE
Bio: During his lifetime, A. J. Muste
was regarded as one of the most prominent spokesmen for the pacifist
movement in America. He wavered in the mid-1930’s, believing violence to
be an effective means for change, but after 1936 he was reconverted to
the validity of a religious-based pacifism, as the fol lowing selection
‘K indicates.
Single greatest compendium of
Essays on Unviolence -
Peace and Nonviolence
http://peaceandnonviolence.blogspot.com/
Full essay here >>> THE WORKABILITY OF NONVIOLENCE, A.J. MUSTE
Tutu: Bush And Blair Should Face Trial At The Hague NPR
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Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and
George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for
their role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
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