2.28.2012
MUST READ. NAZI ISRAEL: For Israel's government, we are insignificant beings Haaretz
Haaretz -
True, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has brought the situation to a head. But the truth is that aside from Yitzhak Rabin, every prime minister before him either didn't negotiate with the Palestinians at all or did so with a "take it or leave it" ...
Israel won't warn US before strike on Iran nuclear facilities: Source Times of India
Times of India -
(AP Photo) WASHINGTON: Israeli officials say they won't warn the US if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one US intelligence official familiar with the discussions. The pronouncement, delivered ...
Iran 'optimistic' on future of nuclear talks with UN watchdog Haaretz
Haaretz -
Tehran expects that talks with UN nuclear watchdog will proceed in right direction, says Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, stresses that Iran does not seek confrontation.
Living Wage Activists Say Hunger Strike Will Continue WINA AM
WINA AM 1070 -
Protesters for the UVA Living Wage Campaign are starting to suffer the effects as they continue their hunger strike. The UVA Board of Visitors has taken a green approach to meetings by going paperless.
Occupy London: "bookseller David Woodhead said such protests suffered from being too diverse in their objections"
USA TODAY -
LONDON (AP) - Authorities dismantled Occupy London's camp outside the famous St. Paul's Cathedral in a dramatic early hours raid Tuesday, clearing away one of the longest-surviving encampments inspired by the New York protest against capitalist excess.
Upper class more likely to be scofflaws due to greed, study finds UC Berkeley
WebMD -
By Matt McMillen Feb. 27, 2012 -- People who consider themselves upper class may not always act all that classy, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2.27.2012
Wealthier People More Likely To Lie or Cheat, Researchers Find San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Maybe, as the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald suggested, the rich really are different. They're more likely to behave badly, according to seven experiments that weighed the ethics of hundreds of people.
Global warming feeds bark beetles: Are they unstoppable? Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
That's the sound of climate change, says biologist Reese Halter. Global warming in the form of a bark beetle. Halter's short but disturbing new book, “The Insatiable Bark Beetle,” addresses one of the biggest and most visible issues facing global ...
Will the EPA's new climate rules get killed in court? Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
Congress isn't planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense.
Satan's GOPig Army Never Sleeps: Will the EPA's new climate rules get killed in court? Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
Congress isn't planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense.
Chardon HS: "Doesn't surprise me coach hall put his life on the line today, always been selfless.... wash post .com
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Sign-up for e-mail newsletters and alerts and get the news you need delivered directly to your inbox. Deciphering the ones and zeros of tech policy with Cecilia Kang.
'For 36 Hours at Washington Post I've been playing whack-a-mole, deniers. (detail)
Hi. I storngly suggest you take some time and scan thru the 300 comments and replies here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-fight-against-global-warming-hopeless/2012/02/17/gIQAhRAXaR_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments
Democracy is NOT the absence of internal war!!!!!!!!!
Democracy should be the REDUCTION of internal bloodshed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-fight-against-global-warming-hopeless/2012/02/17/gIQAhRAXaR_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments
Democracy is NOT the absence of internal war!!!!!!!!!
Democracy should be the REDUCTION of internal bloodshed.
A 'LOVING' NOTE TO OCCUPY DC. POSTED TO THIER SITE TODAY -
http://occupydc.org/information/schedule/
Said moderator approval required. Who knows if they'll publish it. My business was to offer. Their business whether to heed.
The note......
Friends, among those few in history I admire is Dorothy Day, who along with Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement. Early on Dorothy decided that a regular newspaper would provide badly needed revenue, among other things. She poured her heart and soul into the first issue. When she showed it to Peter he said, in so many words, 'This is crap.' She was utterly devastated. 'Anything that has something for everyone is nothing of promise to anyone,' was the gist of his explanation. She was crushed. But she cared for the world's neediest more than she cared about her own hurt. So, she found the courage to see that Peter was right, redoubled her efforts, made the tough decisions on what the paper really stood for, avoided ever making the mistake again, and the paper continues today, as does the movement.
You articulate clearly on this site that you forgive yourselves for not having the answers on what you stand for. My generation has provided you the most hideous example, nothing you can follow, except to your doom. You are therefore to be forgiven. But for how long? The global neediest don't have long; 26,000 kids will die needlessly, tomorrow, and then the next day... because none of us have made it a priority to see what needs to be done, and DO IT.
You young folks, you don't have long if you are planning on making a home on Earth, because unless all the science is wrong (the bet of a sociopath) you have only months, MONTHS to make this upcoming election your generation's moon-shot moment to reduce carbon 80% by 2020. How? BY FINDING YOUR OWN SANITY. BY FINDING YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUS, UNVIOLENT RAGE, RAGE, AT WHAT MY GENERATION HAS DONE TO YOU, IS DOING TO YOU, EVERY DAY! By any and every objective, actuarial measure YOU, YOU, YOU, are paying 80% of the bill on my generation's every drop of oil, and every lump of coal burned today, and yesterday, and tomorrow. How? Well, 1. Most of the ACTUAL, tho carefully ‘hidden,’ price of fossil fuels is in the wreckage cost of Earth that you will be forced to pay for, fortifying our dozen or so sea level cities against climate change's rising of sea levels, for example; and 2. The multi-trillion dollar Debt accumulating hour by hour for our totally needless Oil Wars ongoing in the middle east, debt, you will have to pay off. Needless wars? YOU have 8 times as much wind, and 200 times as much sun in this country as you need for the entire economy, WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, AND IT IS CHEAPER, AND IT PROVIDES ABOUT 8 TIMES THE JOBS AS DOES FOSSIL FUELS. You are getting screwed, SCREWED, and so far, you are too stupid, to distracted with your self-righteous playing, ranting, self-indulgent experimenting… to do anything about it.
And soon, there will be nothing you can do about it. NOTHING. FOREVER, that is, unless 98% percent of the scientists qualified to weigh in on the matter are all lying to you, along with NASA, Lawrence Livermore Labs, the Pentagon, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, Cornell...............
But today, you can head off 80-90% of this environmental armageddon that otherwise is an eternally irreparable certainty for you. You need to do what was done when finally, folks like you got off their asses, and said 'ENOUGH' to the cigarette cancer deniers. KEEP SMOKING if you want, they said, but YOU ARE GOING TO PAY YOUR HEALTH COSTS, NOT US, WE DON'T SMOKE. You need to do the same thing, get off your asses and tell the fossil fuel denier industry, ENOUGH! Burn your coal and oil if you want, but YOU, NOT WE, ARE GOING TO PAY THE WRECKAGE COSTS, THE WAR COSTS. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO. And anything else, anything less, and you're screwed, and your kids are screwed, forever. Uh, FOREVER. Period.
Here's how YOU NEED TO MAKE IT TO BE from now on - NASA's Jim Hansen has laid it out beautifully here - http://books.google.com/books?id=mwva_7dPyAcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+hansen+nasa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dNLT4HwKI2x0AHo0q2EDg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fee%20dividend&f=false . Fee and dividend. Fee and 100% dividend to every US citizen of record, every month. $10 per ton of carbon fee, increasing $10 per year, collected on carbon fuels at the mine, well or port, distributed to citizens of record 100% as a dividend every month. NO CAP AND TRADE. NO TAX. Fee, and Dividend. The market will do the rest. You want to drive an SUV? Live it up. Waste your dividend endlessly, needlessly at the pump. Don't want to waste your dividend endlessly? Use it to get a plug-in hybrid, to get a few solar panels, for geo-thermal heating/cooling for your house. YOU DECIDE. BUT IF YOU AIN'T DOING THE WRECKAGE, YOU AIN'T GUNNA PAY FOR IT ANY MORE. THAT'S UN-AMERICAN. THAT'S STUPID. STOP BEING CRIMINALLY STUPID.
If any of you in Occupy get tired of playing activist, get serious about your future, please, PLEASE, let me know. I'm dying to fight alongside some courageous folks for your future, but I'll continue alone, with every breath, WITH EVERY BREATH, until then. xx Loving http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/
Said moderator approval required. Who knows if they'll publish it. My business was to offer. Their business whether to heed.
The note......
Friends, among those few in history I admire is Dorothy Day, who along with Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement. Early on Dorothy decided that a regular newspaper would provide badly needed revenue, among other things. She poured her heart and soul into the first issue. When she showed it to Peter he said, in so many words, 'This is crap.' She was utterly devastated. 'Anything that has something for everyone is nothing of promise to anyone,' was the gist of his explanation. She was crushed. But she cared for the world's neediest more than she cared about her own hurt. So, she found the courage to see that Peter was right, redoubled her efforts, made the tough decisions on what the paper really stood for, avoided ever making the mistake again, and the paper continues today, as does the movement.
You articulate clearly on this site that you forgive yourselves for not having the answers on what you stand for. My generation has provided you the most hideous example, nothing you can follow, except to your doom. You are therefore to be forgiven. But for how long? The global neediest don't have long; 26,000 kids will die needlessly, tomorrow, and then the next day... because none of us have made it a priority to see what needs to be done, and DO IT.
You young folks, you don't have long if you are planning on making a home on Earth, because unless all the science is wrong (the bet of a sociopath) you have only months, MONTHS to make this upcoming election your generation's moon-shot moment to reduce carbon 80% by 2020. How? BY FINDING YOUR OWN SANITY. BY FINDING YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUS, UNVIOLENT RAGE, RAGE, AT WHAT MY GENERATION HAS DONE TO YOU, IS DOING TO YOU, EVERY DAY! By any and every objective, actuarial measure YOU, YOU, YOU, are paying 80% of the bill on my generation's every drop of oil, and every lump of coal burned today, and yesterday, and tomorrow. How? Well, 1. Most of the ACTUAL, tho carefully ‘hidden,’ price of fossil fuels is in the wreckage cost of Earth that you will be forced to pay for, fortifying our dozen or so sea level cities against climate change's rising of sea levels, for example; and 2. The multi-trillion dollar Debt accumulating hour by hour for our totally needless Oil Wars ongoing in the middle east, debt, you will have to pay off. Needless wars? YOU have 8 times as much wind, and 200 times as much sun in this country as you need for the entire economy, WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, AND IT IS CHEAPER, AND IT PROVIDES ABOUT 8 TIMES THE JOBS AS DOES FOSSIL FUELS. You are getting screwed, SCREWED, and so far, you are too stupid, to distracted with your self-righteous playing, ranting, self-indulgent experimenting… to do anything about it.
And soon, there will be nothing you can do about it. NOTHING. FOREVER, that is, unless 98% percent of the scientists qualified to weigh in on the matter are all lying to you, along with NASA, Lawrence Livermore Labs, the Pentagon, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, Cornell...............
But today, you can head off 80-90% of this environmental armageddon that otherwise is an eternally irreparable certainty for you. You need to do what was done when finally, folks like you got off their asses, and said 'ENOUGH' to the cigarette cancer deniers. KEEP SMOKING if you want, they said, but YOU ARE GOING TO PAY YOUR HEALTH COSTS, NOT US, WE DON'T SMOKE. You need to do the same thing, get off your asses and tell the fossil fuel denier industry, ENOUGH! Burn your coal and oil if you want, but YOU, NOT WE, ARE GOING TO PAY THE WRECKAGE COSTS, THE WAR COSTS. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO. And anything else, anything less, and you're screwed, and your kids are screwed, forever. Uh, FOREVER. Period.
Here's how YOU NEED TO MAKE IT TO BE from now on - NASA's Jim Hansen has laid it out beautifully here - http://books.google.com/books?id=mwva_7dPyAcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+hansen+nasa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dNLT4HwKI2x0AHo0q2EDg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fee%20dividend&f=false . Fee and dividend. Fee and 100% dividend to every US citizen of record, every month. $10 per ton of carbon fee, increasing $10 per year, collected on carbon fuels at the mine, well or port, distributed to citizens of record 100% as a dividend every month. NO CAP AND TRADE. NO TAX. Fee, and Dividend. The market will do the rest. You want to drive an SUV? Live it up. Waste your dividend endlessly, needlessly at the pump. Don't want to waste your dividend endlessly? Use it to get a plug-in hybrid, to get a few solar panels, for geo-thermal heating/cooling for your house. YOU DECIDE. BUT IF YOU AIN'T DOING THE WRECKAGE, YOU AIN'T GUNNA PAY FOR IT ANY MORE. THAT'S UN-AMERICAN. THAT'S STUPID. STOP BEING CRIMINALLY STUPID.
If any of you in Occupy get tired of playing activist, get serious about your future, please, PLEASE, let me know. I'm dying to fight alongside some courageous folks for your future, but I'll continue alone, with every breath, WITH EVERY BREATH, until then. xx Loving http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/
"Blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11 abc.news
“I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11,” former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Sunday on the “This Week” roundtable. “It’s totally ridiculous.” [ABC News]
Himalayan Sherpas lament climate change devastation PhysOrg.com
Independent Online -
By Frankie Taggart Gati, Nepal - Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.
Santorum, GOPigs, GOD IS TRUTH. STOP PISSING ON GOD: WashPo - Santorum's Lies, Kennedy's Truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/angry-rick-santorum-throws-up-on-jfk/2011/03/04/gIQA4tiidR_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
Joan Walsh over at Salon has a terrific deep dive on what Kennedy actually said, which is the opposite of Santorum’s characterization. “Of course, there’s no place in Kennedy’s speech where he said ‘people of faith are not allowed in the public square,’ or anything close to that, and Santorum’s saying it three times doesn’t make it true.” Courtesy of Walsh, here is what Kennedy said:
Joan Walsh over at Salon has a terrific deep dive on what Kennedy actually said, which is the opposite of Santorum’s characterization. “Of course, there’s no place in Kennedy’s speech where he said ‘people of faith are not allowed in the public square,’ or anything close to that, and Santorum’s saying it three times doesn’t make it true.” Courtesy of Walsh, here is what Kennedy said:
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.
Detained Tibetans stage hunger strike in Nepal Reuters
Reuters -
By Gopal Sharma | KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Thirteen Tibetans, detained last week for protesting against China in front of the United Nations office in Nepal, started an indefinite hunger strike on Monday to press for their release, the president of the ...
2.26.2012
Steven Santiago Dies After Saving Drunken Filmmaker from SI RailwayDNAinfo
Wall Street Journal -
AP NEW YORK - A 39-year-old man who was critically injured after being struck by a train while attempting to help a drunken man off the tracks on Staten Island has died.
Santorum Calls for Sharia Law, Fundamentalist style: Santorum: Church/state separation not absolute CBS News
CBS News -
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum continued to make controversial statements Sunday. The latest is about the separation of church and state, which Santorum says prohibits people of faith from the "public square.
Obama crooning, GOP gone wild Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times -
Barack Obama is singing and swinging. While the president still faces a long, hard slog to a November re-election victory, the increasingly fractious Republican nominating contest must be music to his ears.
GOD BLESS YOU LUCY: Actress Lucy Lawless Arrested in Oil-Ship Protest ABC
Actress Lucy Lawless Arrested in Oil-Ship Protest
ABC News - 5 minutes ago
Police have arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace environmental activists after the group spent four days protesting aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand. Police on Monday removed the group from their perch atop a 174-foot ...
'Xena' actress arrested in New Zealand oil protest
AFP - 7 minutes ago
WELLINGTON — "Xena: Warrior Princess" actress Lucy Lawless was arrested in New Zealand Monday after occupying an oil-drilling ship for three days to protest plans to search for oil off Alaska, Greenpeace said. Police climbed a 53-metre (175-foot) ...
Warrior princess Xena arrested
Herald Sun - 15 minutes ago
THE occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell ship by six Greenpeace activists - including actor Lucy Lawless - ended today after police climbed the ship's drilling tower and arrested the group, a police spokeswoman said. "The protesters are all under arrest ...
Lucy Lawless arrested after Shell oil protest ends
Stuff.co.nz - 25 minutes ago
Actress Lucy Lawless and five other Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after spending four days on board the Noble Discoverer, which was due to travel to the Arctic in exploration of oil. Lawless and a group of Greenpeace activists scaled the ...
ROBERT CHARLES/Taranaki Daily News ROBERT CHARLES/Taranaki Daily News ROBERT ...
Stuff.co.nz - 40 minutes ago
DOING IT FOR THE KIDS: Lucy Lawless says she wants to save the Arctic from drilling. Actress Lucy Lawless and five other Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after spending four days on board the Noble Discoverer, which was due to travel to the ...
Greenpeace Activists, Including Lucy Lawless, Arrested After New Zealand ...
Fox Business - 1 hour ago
WELLINGTON – The occupation of an Arctic-bound Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) drillship by six Greenpeace activists--including actor Lucy Lawless--ended Monday in New Zealand after police climbed the ship's drilling tower and arrested the group, ...
Lucy Lawless group ends oil ship protest
Ninemsn - 1 hour ago
Six Greenpeace protesters have been arrested in New Zealand after agreeing to end their occupation of a Shell-contracted oil exploration ship at Port Taranaki. The protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, came down from the 53-metre drilling tower ...
Greenpeace ship protesters arrested
TVNZ - 1 hour ago
Police have climbed the drilling tower of a ship at Port Taranaki and arrested six protesters. The protesters, including actor Lucy Lawless, had spent a third night on the drilling tower of the Noble Discoverer. Police said at 11am that they had sent ...
Lucy Lawless, fellow protesters abandon ship
NEWS.com.au - 1 hour ago
SIX Greenpeace protesters in New Zealand have ended their occupation of a Shell-contracted oil exploration ship. The protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, came down from the 53-metre drilling tower aboard the Noble Discoverer today.
Police arrest oil ship protesters
New Zealand Herald - 1 hour ago
By Herald Online staff and Jeremy Olds Officers scaled the vessel's drilling tower and arrested the protesters, which included actress Lucy Lawless, who have been there since late last week. The Noble Discoverer was meant to leave Port Taranaki over ...
Pr. Obama's Clinically Depressed by News - Brewer won't attend Obama dinner for governors USA TODAY
USA TODAY -
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama is hosting a White House dinner tonight for the nation's governors, but one prominent state executive won't be there.
Democratic governors: Republicans returning to 'dark ages' Politico
Politico -
The nation's Democratic governors are gleeful at the heavy play social issues are suddenly getting in the Republican presidential primary.
Warrior: Lucy Lawless and protesters spend third night aboard oil drilling ship NEWS.com.au
Lawless protesters prepare for third night
The Australian - 6 hours ago
A group of protesters on board a Shell-contracted oil-drilling ship in Taranaki, New Zealand, are preparing for a third night on board but their water is running low. The protesters, including TV actor Lucy Lawless, boarded the Arctic-bound Noble ...
Warrior: Lucy Lawless and protesters spend third night aboard oil drilling ship
NEWS.com.au - 6 hours ago
Actress Lucy Lawless is spending her third night on board an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic with a group of protesters. Picture: Greenpeace Source: AP Source: AP A group of protesters on board a Shell-contracted oil-drilling ship in Taranaki, ...
'Guantanamo' tactics won't put off Greenpeace protesters
New Zealand Herald - 6 hours ago
By Jeremy Olds Greenpeace protesters say "Guantanamo" style tactics will not bring them down from a tower aboard a Shell ship bound for the Arctic. The Noble Discoverer was meant to depart Port Taranaki this weekend on a 6000 nautical mile journey to ...
Protesters weather second night on ship
TVNZ - 13 hours ago
Five Greenpeace protesters and actor Lucy Lawless have spent a second night aboard the oil drilling ship the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki. The protesters are on the drilling tower of the vessel, and say that they have used locks on the access ...
Lawless foregoes comforts to fight oil drilling
New Zealand Herald - 19 hours ago
By Kirsty Wynn Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace activists protesting on board a Shell-contracted oil drillship in Port Taranaki. Photo / Greenpeace Eco-princess Lucy Lawless has given up home comforts for a second night up a gusty tower with no place to ...
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