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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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International Womens' Day
Since 1911 we have been celebrating March 8th as International Women's Day. This date is commemorated at the United Nations and in many countries is considered a national holiday. As women come together to celebrate this day, they can look back to decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace, and development. It is the story of ordinary women as history makers. This year marks the centennial anniversary of the celebration.  Read more

Yvette Mulongo Is Changing the Lives of Congolese Women

My Son Doesn't Speak, So I've Learned to Read Him 

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Why Endometriosis Awareness Mat

 The Girl Effect : the Most Powerful Force for Change

Constitution Project

Case About Bird Flu

 The Coming Crisis

 Desdemona Despair

Climate change, biofuels threaten food security: FAO

 Recent price shocks triggered by extreme weather and increasing use of grains to produce energy have caused great concern, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said. "There are fears that price volatility may be increasing.."

( 'May' works with their idea of 'great concern.' I can hear the yawn. ) 

The Rome-based FAO has already warned food-producing countries against introducing export curbs to protect local markets as world food prices push further above the levels that triggered deadly riots in 2007/2008.

( So food producing nations must let the locals starve. )

Global food prices hit a record high in February, and the FAO said last week that further oil price spikes and stockpiling by importers keen to head off unrest would hit already volatile cereal markets.
Food prices are projected to rise over the next decade and stay at levels on average above those of the past decade, the agency said on Monday.

Experts say dam added to Queensland flood damage

Graph of the Day: Foreign Holders of U.S. Government Debt, December 2010

Cancer rise and sperm quality fall ‘due to chemicals’

Unregulated pesticide use in Asia destroys ecosystems and threatens resistant ‘pest storms’

First large-scale map of Indonesia oil palm plantations reveals vast destruction of forest and peatlands

Drought and high fuel prices driving inflation in East Africa

 

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Security Perimeter: Canadians Ponder Legal Action In Quebec Courts Against Harper’s Legal Conspiracy

Decline of the Empire

Talking About Oil — Complacency, Panic And Ignorance

Arkansas Shutters Two Wells in Area of Quakes

 

Rock Beyond Belief Canceled - US Army Being Sued In Federal Court

“The constitutional perversion that is happening at Fort Bragg is nothing short of spiritual rape being perpetrated by fundamentalist Christian religious predators.” 

 eco 20-20

 

How Science Became Obsolete...and Scientists Irrelevant

This week, a fellow blogger asked me for my impressions of our rapid spiral towards destruction...which led to a thought-provoking exercise.  It surprised me that even he was surprised by the breadth of my assessment, and that served to remind me that everything I lately take for granted - such as the impending collapse of civilization and mass extinctions - isn't reflected by the tiniest inkling in most people.  Not everyone is obsessively consumed immersed in following the myriad unfolding disasters as a Diva of Doom!

I wage a constant and seemingly futile campaign to alert those professionals who blame dying trees on insects or disease or fungus or wind or drought that air pollution is the underlying agent.  I spend much effort trying to explain to heedless foresters and climate scientists that their logic is comparable to blaming a death on lung cancer whilst ignoring a 40-year smoking habit.  This focus on trees and ozone keeps me occupied so, I usually leave the broader dimensions of catastrophe to other blogs who cover it quite well - DesdemonaDespair, Apocadocs, The DailyImpact and TheComingCrisis

 

Industry: Living off the Low-Fat of the Land

A brief excursion into dietary “science” shows us why and how industrial science is destroying our world, with our happy acquiesence. By industrial science I mean “science” conducted by people in the employ of industrialists such as Cargill and the Koch brothers, the handful of giant companies that engineer and market the food-like substances that have turned America into a country whose population is at once overweight and undernourished. 

From China’s Leaders, Intimations of Mortality

Which prominent American government official said the following this week?
  • “The conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.”
  • “The depletion, deterioration and exhaustion of resources and the worsening environment have become grave impediments to the nation’s economic and social development.”
  • “We must not any longer sacrifice the environment for the sake of rapid growth and reckless roll-outs, as that would result in unsustainable growth featuring industrial overcapacity and intensive resource consumption.”

 

Peak Phosphorous: Worse than Peak Oil?

Here’s the bottom line, obvious to all but the most arithmetically challenged: when you base an entire civilization on the rapid consumption of a limited resource, you guarantee the collapse of that civilization on the day the resource is exhausted. But the ride to that final day is not a smooth one; you also...

Mystery disease kills fauna in Sipahijala

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So-called weight-loss drugs are huge business, but they’re going from bad to worse. The newest include antidepressant ingredients—and most users won’t even know they’re there—with more really awful side effects.
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 Not only may the drugs meant to cure your depression actually drive you to suicide, but these dangerous and addictive drugs may be behind the Columbine shooting—and dozens of others. Ask the FDA to warn the public that SSRIs may make people commit violence against others! Our new Action Alert has the details.
Mom Whose Autistic Children Got Better Shares More of Her Story With Us
Last week we told you about Meleah Corner, who won a major court case in NC allowing her children to continue to be treated with HBOT. This week we had the opportunity to interview her and hear her story in greater detail. You won’t believe what she had to go through.

What we have and haven't learned from Climategate | Grist

  • NonaYore
  • 8 Mar 2011 1:08pm
Google 'Global Governance' and 'Climate Change' and you will find tons of citations from NGO's and think tanks suggesting that the current political order is inadequate to address the 'Global Climate Change Crisis'.

Most of these global governance schemes involve concepts that many people find threatening and problematic:

1) Suggestions that nation states yield sovereignty to a global government structure
(usually involving the United Nations) that is capable of dealing with climate change in
an integrated manner.
2) Funding mechanisms for global government (usually involving some sort of global
tax like a carbon tax)
3) Use of carbon emissions as a basis for wealth transfer from rich nations to
developing ones
4) Involvement of 'middlemen' like the World Bank in the funding mechanism.

Regardless of whether or not global warming is scientifically 'true', the fact remains that global governance, global taxation and wealth transfer are extremely appealing to elite power brokers and fears of ensuing loss of national sovereignty are valid ones.

I really think these concerns are driving the anti-AGW movement more than you think.

Royal Dutch Shell announced the appointment of an Executive Vice President "Global Government Relations" in Washington, DC. Clearly they are positioning themselves to capitalize on the 'global governance' trend.

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