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2.15.2012

Obama car czar calls Romney clueless on auto bailout USA TODAY

Obama car czar calls Romney clueless on auto bailout

USA TODAY -
By Todd Spangler/USA TODAY and Detroit Free Press The former head of President Barack Obama's auto industry task force said today in an interview that if Mitt Romney seriously believes GM and Chrysler would have survived without federal financing in ...
Romney Says Obama Bailout Harmed, Not Helped, Auto Industry

Obama Peacemaker: Iran Is Ready to Talk NYT

Military leaders: Obama budget is right plan ‎ Aiken Standard

Military leaders: Obama budget is right plan


Aiken Standard - 6 hours ago
... to complain about the dumb things some people do, save your energy, becau . ... leader insisted on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's trimmer, ...

2.14.2012

Wife of Palestinian hunger striker calls for Egyptian help Ahram Online

Wife of Palestinian hunger striker calls for Egyptian help

Ahram Online -
Randa Adnan (known as Um Abdel Rahman), wife of detained Palestinian Khedr Adnan, has called on Egyptian authorities to intervene and secure his release in light of his deteriorating physical condition.
Palestine Today 02 14 2012
Support grows for Palestinian prisoner on 56th day of hunger strike

Netanyahu Meets Hunger Striking Daughter of Ex-SLA Soldier (vid)

Netanyahu Meets Hunger Striking Daughter of Ex-SLA Soldier

PM Netanyahu meets with 14-year-old daughter of a former SLA officer who has been hunger striking due to her family's difficult situation.

Chicago Trib: Bishops plan aggressive expansion of battle against Pedophelia, uh, Birth Control Chicago Tribune

Bishops plan aggressive expansion of birth-control battle

Chicago Tribune -
(Reuters) - Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally Americans against a long list of government measures which they say intrude on religious liberty.

The Pedophile Guys: Bishops' contraception objections fail their church's own moral reasoningWashington Post

Religious Wing Nuts: Elie Wiesel to Romney, Mormons: Don't baptize dead Jews USA TODAY

Elie Wiesel to Romney, Mormons: Don't baptize dead Jews

USA TODAY -
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel today called on Mitt Romney to tell the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stop doing proxy baptisms in the names of dead Jews, including Holocaust victims ...
Wiesel to Romney: Tell Mormons to stop baptizing dead Jews
Mormons apologize for posthumous Jewish baptism

Climate change increases risk of storm surges, according to MIT study Boston.com

Climate change increases risk of storm surges, according to MIT study

Boston.com -
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff Studies of climate change and its impact on coastal communities usually focus on rising sea level.
Climate Change Could Speed Up Storm Frequency
Climate Change May Bring '100-Year Storms' Every 3 Years

House GOP Submit Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Rider To Transportation Bill

Expose: Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax

Employment in the EU’s renewable energy sector has broken through the one million mark (detail)

“If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel McGowan, Earth Liberation Front and Green Scare

Greenpeace Feb 13 Duke Progress Ashville Photos (vid, Action links)

HATE BEGETS HATE. SL Comment to Isreali Benny Morris LA Times Op Ed

Op-Ed On Iran, a stark choice, Benny Morris

SL Comment ---------

StartLoving at 7:01 AM February 14, 2012 Mr. Morris, hate begets hate as Dr. King reminded us.  In the case of Israel, Hatefulness begets Hatefulness.  Let's start there.  Yes, for right wing Israelis, the world, the universe, revolves around them.  Uh, no, I err.  The universe IS them.  To them, clearly America exists entirely to do right wing Israel's bidding, and the Palestinians, and the rest of the Arab world are at best nuisance rodents to be controlled and exterminated when possible.  This is hateful friend, and if you don't get your right wing buddies to acknowledge the rest of us as humans, equally worthy of consideration, lives, due process....Israel will, as did Soviet Russia, cease to exist, which is what the detestable Iranian regime has said.  Have you no shame?
Yes, Iran must not get the bomb. You needn't bring your Holocaust hysteria into the mix to argue this.  In doing so, you disgrace and defile the memory of those poor victims, and further draw hate on Israel by making so plain your detesting of the rest of us.
And you needn't bring your hysterical nonsense suggesting that given the bomb, Iran hates Israel so much that it will bring annihilation on itself just to extinguish Israel.  There is one country in the middle east where we've seen that type of craziness over, and over, and over.  It isn't Iran.
The biggest threat to Israel is it's own right wing's Hatefulness to the rest of the world. Stop it.

Greenpeace kids risk life and freedom, for you, yesterday. And you? youtube

'Imagine God Asks You: 'What most do you want the world filled with?' DO YOU HAVE BETTER ANSWER THAN 'LOVE?'' SL (no detail)


2.13.2012

Funny how that works. LIve by the sword...: After killings of Iran nuclear scientists, Israeli diplomats targeted The Herald

Obama Budget Proposal a Big Net Plus for Environment MarketWatch

Obama Budget Proposal a Big Net Plus for Environment

MarketWatch (press release) -
"Despite some flaws, the president's budget is a big net plus for the environment, and we urge Congress to embrace the positive aspects of it," said Elgie Holstein, senior director for strategic planning at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and a former ...

16 arrested in Greenpeace protest at Arden power plant BlueRidgeNow.com

16 arrested in Greenpeace protest at Arden power plant

BlueRidgeNow.com -
The organization wanted to send a message to Progress Energy that it's past time the energy company stopped using coal because it's dangerous to the community and environment, according to Greenpeace officials. Shortly after 6 am, 16 protestors entered ...
Greenpeace activists scale Asheville smokestack for protest
Greenpeace protesting at NC Progress Energy plant

Obama Futures Rallying in Correlation With S&P 500 Best Start in 21 Years Bloomberg

Obama Futures Rallying in Correlation With S&P 500 Best Start in 21 Years

Bloomberg -
Enlarge image Barack Obama Barack Obama Brian Kersey/UPI/LANDOV President Obama at Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Obama reiterates call for farm subsidy cuts Reuters

Obama reiterates call for farm subsidy cuts

Reuters -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed slashing subsidies to the booming agriculture sector by $32 billion over the next decade, just as Congress begins the lengthy process of overhauling the expiring US farm law.

Obama proposes $800 million in aid for "Arab Spring"Reuters

In Less Than 7 Hours, Over 500,000 People Sign Up To Keep Keystone XL Killed

People Rise Up Against Utah Strip Coal Mine Threat To Bryce Canyon National Park

Romney Campaign: Santorum Is A Serial Liar

'In this entirely sick society, Live, Breathe your Conscience, or you are Lost.' SL (no detail)


With climate change, today's '100-year floods' may happen every three to 20 ... PhysOrg.com

With climate change, today's '100-year floods' may happen every three to 20 ...

PhysOrg.com -
However, researchers from MIT and Princeton University have found that with climate change, such storms could make landfall far more frequently, causing powerful, devastating storm surges every three to 20 years.
Major storms set to increase
Vt. Agency of Natural Resources report says Irene had lessons for climate ...

Arctic warms to highest level yet as researchers fear tipping points Mongabay.com

Arctic warms to highest level yet as researchers fear tipping points

Mongabay.com -
Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet.

Soil erosion increasing global warming threat: UNEP Reuters

Soil erosion increasing global warming threat: UNEP

Reuters -
By Nina Chestney | LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on ...

SL's coment to WSJ: Obama Budget Doubles Down on Clean Energy

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/02/13/obama-budget-doubles-down-on-clean-energy/tab/comments/#comment-1221032

SL comment - 
This is not the American way!  We refuse to use energy that doesn't cost the blood of our children in the middle east, and US wind and sun require none of their blood!  It is simply un American!  It is patriotic to unnecessarily send our kids to die unnecessarily, right?  And if we allow the American public to demand science in this area, well, it will be hardly any time at all before they are demanding that the externalities of carbon fuels be handled the way cancer, health costs finally were handled with cigarettes, where the offender, the polluter pays.  And if we want to kill 14,000 Americans with coal pollution to avoid the vicious ire of the coal industry, well that's our business, non-foreign-terrorist deaths are totally ok.  And hey, they are our children, so if we want to hand them a dead ocean devoid of life, 50% of the world's species gone by 2075 - THEY ARE OUR KIDS.  NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL US TO STOP.  This is the land of the Free-to-do-to-others-whatever-we-want-if-we-have-the-money-to-get-away-with-it!  Love it, or leave it!

‘Tinfoil Hats Have Become A Common, If Not Mandatory, GOP Accessory’ NYT

'Is the most compassionate thing to do to prepare to intervene when the mass misery becomes unbearable?' SL (no detail)


2.12.2012

'In this 100% sick society, Live, Breathe your Conscience, or you are Lost.' SL (no detail)


Good man. Support him: OccupyDC: As I See It by Jerry Nelson

Abbas: Arab League should urge Netanyahu to renew peace talks Ynetnews

Abbas: Arab League should urge Netanyahu to renew peace talks

Ynetnews -
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Arab League's member nations to urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders to define the terms for the renewal of the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. Speaking before the members of ...

Slave owner to Slaves: You've Turned your Back on Peace. NETANYAHU WAR CRIMINAL

Netanyahu: Abbas has turned his back on peace (Haaretz)

Haaretz -
PM responds to Palestinian president's speech in which he says that peace talks cannot resume without Israeli settlement freeze; Netanyahu accuses Abbas of effectively embracing Iran through his link to Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ...

Diane Wilson: Oyster union meets to discuss concerns Victoria Advocate

Oyster union meets to discuss concerns

Victoria Advocate -
Blanco, the president of the Union of Commercial Texas Oystermen, stood at the front of the room, raising his voice to be heard over the barely contained rumble of about 80 people.

68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011

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