3.13.2012
The need for women's empowerment The Guardian
The Guardian -
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute points to the potential impact on female empowerment of access to family planning services: "There are 215 million women in the world today who want to plan their familes but who do not have access ...
Al Gore, Sean Parker call for 'Occupy Democracy' movement online Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
Former Vice President Al Gore and online entrepreneur Sean Parker gave an overflow crowd at the South by Southwest trade show a pep talk Monday on the need to reform the political system, which Gore said is dominated by corporate interests.
Florida farmworkers end hunger strike, but continue to press supermarket chain ... Free Speech Radio News
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After six days without food, dozens of farmworkers and supporters in Florida ended their week-long hunger strike outside the entrance of the Publix Supermarket Corporate Headquarters in Lakeland on Saturday.
Hunger strike called off after 13 days, students to move High Court Indian Express
Indian Express -
Student activist Sidharth Sharma, who had been on hunger strike for the last 13 days, protesting against fees charged from reserved category students, called off his strike on Monday evening.
Turkey PM Erdogan: "a massacre has been committed slowly but systematically in Palestine since the beginning of the 20th century."
www.worldbulletin.net -
Erdogan said, "a massacre has been committed slowly but systematically in Palestine since the beginning of the 20th century.
WOW: Review: The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans Foreign Policy Journal
Foreign Policy Journal -
However, I was quite amazed at this work, and found it an excellent read in its own right, as well as a wonderful source and resource book on Palestine and questions related to Palestine. It is a user-friendly composite of history, ...
Springlike 80 degrees for Chicago in last week Chicago Sun-Times of winter
TribLocal -
To set one new temperature record is a comparatively rare event - but to set four of them over seven days is truly one for the books.
Poll: 7 in 10 Americans want to outlaw super PACs USA TODAY
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By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Americans aren't in love with super PACs, the new independent groups that are transforming the 2012 presidential election.
Oil and Gas Ind War on US: API sues EPA over biofuelsUPI.com
Bloomberg -
An oil and gas industry trade association asked a federal appeals court to review a US Environmental Protection Agency regulation governing fuel additives including biological materials.
Climate change threatens Seychelles habitat Mother Nature Network
Mother Nature Network -
Organizations are helping fight climate change in the tiny nation, the only one in the world where 50 percent of the land is a nature reserve.
Rick Santorum: 'Tell That To A Plant, me, for example, How Dangerous Carbon Dioxide Is' (VIDEO) Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
Back in early February, he targeted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for allegedly buying into the "bogus" science of man-made climate change.
Climate-change skeptics paid by U.S. think-tank The Province
The Province -
By Mike Desouza, Postmedia News March 12, 2012 9:00 PM Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent refuses to comment on revelations that climate-change skeptics in Canada are get-ting money from an American think-tank funded by corporations.
3.12.2012
Asian Super Grid for Wind Energy and Solar Power REVE
Asian Super Grid for Wind Energy and Solar Power
REVE -
Technologies to harness solar power (photovoltaic and concentrating solar power) and wind energy have improved dramatically in the last few years.
More Pathological Blaming at ThinkProgress.org: Greenhouse Goal Has Disappeared From Obama’s ‘Blueprint For A Secure Energy Future’
Greenhouse Goal Has Disappeared From Obama’s ‘Blueprint For A Secure Energy Future’
Yes, Grandkids, I couldn't act because Pr. Obama didn't do enough. [TP, go f*ck yourselves]
DEAD: ISREAL 0, GAZA 23. This, is a war? This, is murder, Nazi-style.
200 rockets hit Israel, 23 Gazans killed in return
So far no Israelis have been injured by the rockets, but the death toll of Palestinians - most of them militants - is now at 23.Innovation is Not Enough: Why Polluters Must Pay Yale
Yale Environment 360 -
That either starts with a price on carbon or, ideally, a cap on carbon emissions. Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that taxing or capping carbon pollution is tough, so better to invest in new pollution control technologies instead (though they don't ...
The Bravest Form of Nonviolence Foreign Policy Journal
Foreign Policy Journal -
by Richard Falk No sooner had Khader Adnan ended his 66-day life-threatening hunger strike than new urgent concerns are being voiced for Hana Shalabi, another West Bank hunger striker now without food for more than 24 days. Both strikes were directed ...
WOW: Saudis to go on hunger strike against activist detention Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune -
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Dozens of Saudis have signed up to join a two-day hunger strike this week to protest against the detention of a prominent rights activist, a rights group said.
MUST READ: Peter Beinart: Obama Betrayed Ideals on Israel [MAYBE]
Peter Beinart: Obama Betrayed Ideals on Israel
Loving's comment:
---------Utterly stunning insights Beinart. Your work is extraordinary. Breathtaking. But severely flawed also.
You have the right to imply or state outright that Pr. Obama is a coward, incompetent, sell-out for re-election, whatever, and you've done that here in combination, wittingly or unwittingly. And this all may be the case. But you've not made that case convincingly.
You've not spoken of the totally unprecedented, unexpected GOPig tyranny in the Senate with the treasonous misuse of fillabuster, decimating administration energies, attention, and political capital otherwise reasonably expected that could have been used in the Middle East. You've not spoken of another explanation for his actions - two, severe mis-calculations while he was formulating and stating initial policy: 1. A massive underestimate of AIPACs power, ruthlessness, finances, punctuated with his one personnel blunder, allowing his national security pick, was it, to be stuffed back down his throat within days by AIPAC, et al, and 2. a massive over-estimation of the US Progressives, Left, that they would stay standing with him for years, not nano-seconds, after the election, as turned out to be the case. Worthless, cowardly, treasonous, deadly; punctuated with our total cowering in the face of the Tea Party mob, traitorously letting them take the House, without any resistance at all - unconditional surrender by the spineless, lip-service left. That wasn't the pre-election, or election-night deal.
And a 3rd factor you've not discussed nor ruled out, but rather left out, or conveniently overlooked. And that, is Pr. Obama's long game, that he plays better than anyone we've ever seen. Not in this case?
I fully meant the thanks and admiration for your work, Beinart, at the beginning of this comment. But you owe us, the situation, and yourself, further thought and writing to us on these other points. If Pr. Obama deserves to be so fully discounted and undercut as you've indicated here, so be it. But if it is not deserved, that is an attack you of all people don't carelessly want to leave in place.
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