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Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest
by Ralph Lopez Global Research, September 20, 2011 Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq after uncovering a smuggling ring within an Iraqi security company. The compa
Thousands Cheer Bernie Sanders’s Appeal to Obama, Super-Committee: Make the Rich Pay for Deficits
Senator Bernie Sanders on the Senate Floor Feb. 16, 2011 The Nation September 18, 2011 John Nichols Declaring that “Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history,” and decrying threats to Medicare and Medicaid that would punish Americans who did not cause the current economic crisis, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders brought thousands of progressives from acros
Geithner pumps up Zombie Banks on a global level
Geithner’s European Junket counterpunch September 17-18, 2011 by MIKE WHITNEY On Thursday–exactly 3 years after Lehman Brothers defaulted igniting the greatest financial crisis in 70 years–the world’s most powerful central banks launched a massive intervention to staunch a liquidity squeeze in the eurozone that threatened to wreak havoc on the EU banking system. The European Central Bank –actin
Sarah Palin Biography ‘The Rogue’ Draws Early Fire From Critics
Wall Street Journal September 15, 2011 Sarah Palin is getting a lot of attention lately and she hasn’t even officially declared she’s running for anything. She’s the subject of a new biography called “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” by Joe McGinniss, who famously (or infamously depending on your point of view) moved in next door to the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska while he was w
NewsPirates/From the Quarterdeck ★ 3
Locating Qualified Colorado Locksmith
Locksmith professionals are usually very useful with regards to installation and repair of curly hair that individuals use on a regular basis. To acheive the top companies even so, you need to find a very good and quite a few qualified Denver locksmith. This can be a trial putting in thoughts the fact you’ll find developed solid relationships . locksmiths in the market. You’ll find however numerou
Choosing Internet Gambling establishment Games
Online Casino Background Trends As more individuals start off enjoying on-line casino online games likeblackjack, slot machine games, roulette along with other common internet casino video games, the quantity of online internet casino game titles websites can be escalating. On the one hand this is good to the web gambling establishment supporters becausethey’ll have a lot more alternatives on the
Violence in Afghanistan 09/03/2011
S. AFGHANISTAN – A soldier serving with the ISAF was killed by an insurgent attack. Details and the nationality of the solider were not provided. It gave no other details. AFGHANISTAN – Afghan and foreign troops claim to have killed 21 Taliban insurgents during raids around the country over the past 24 hours. BALKH – Combined Afghan and ISAF troops killed an unarmed female civilian during a night
Pickled Politics ★ 8
EDL exposed in damning academic report
As recently highlighted by The Guardian, the ugly reality of the English Defence League has been exposed in a newly-published report by Dr Matthew Feldman and Dr Paul Jackson at Northampton University’s Radicalism and New Media Research Group. The report was formally released during a major international conference recently hosted by the RNM; it is based on extensive independent research and is a
I’m working on a new project
It wouldn’t have escaped your notice that I’ve been blogging a lot less here lately. This isn’t just because running Liberal Conspiracy is a full time job – it is because I’ve been working on another big project. Eons ago, long before I got into blogging, writing or anything to do with the media, I worked at a technology start-up. I joined straight after university and the ‘dotcom boom’ was in ful
Police pays out £20k for wrongful arrest of ‘terrorist’
The Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police has paid £20,000 in compensation to Rizwaan Sabir for his wrongful arrest and seven days’ detention under the Terrorism Act 2000 in May 2008. Mr Sabir – currently a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde researching domestic UK counter-terrorism policy – was arrested after downloading an edited version of the ‘The Al-Qaeda Training Manual’ from
James Delingpole’s blogging
Yesterday evening I may have given the impression to some people on Twitter that James Delingpole’s blogging for the Telegraph was shit and repeatedly wrong. Now, the first part of that is obviously true. More intelligent ppl than me have pointed out to me that the second accusation may get me into trouble. So, before my ass gets sued, a clarification. Delingpole writes comment and doesn’t know m
EDL leader agrees with Breivik’s opinions, threatens Britain’s entire Muslim population
The English Defence League’s leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka “Tommy Robinson”) recently gave an interview to the Norwegian media and made the following dubious statements about the mass murdering Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik: “We share some of his opinions, and his fear, but not what he did in Norway 22 July. I do not think he is insane. I think that his approach was insane…Breivik dared
Amygdala ★ 3
Orbit With Me
ORBIT WITH ME. Ever dream of doing this? Dream a little dream.Dream a big dream.Read more posts at Amygdala!
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“Making the Case For Digital Activism” by Jessica Ann Mitchell
Post submission by Jessica Ann Mitchell The recent Troy Davis case sparked a firestorm of digital outcries. Online protests were launched along with online petitions. Amnesty International collected over 630,000 signatures in support of Davis. Twitter and Facebook were both taken over by hashtags and updates. Millions of people were discussing the case and educating others about it. The Davis case
“African rulers, hypocrisy, greed and myopia” by Nkwazi Mhango
Before being booted out of power, Libyan tyrant, Muammar Gadaffi, lived a deceptive life by sleeping in the tent as symbol of simplicity and likeness with common Libyans. Before falling from grace, no common citizen had ever peeped in the mansions of his children despite being built and kept by the taxes of the common man and woman. Common people were not allowed to get close to these highly guard
Byts and Bytes
Canadian Senator Talks Race Relations The Economist: How To Build A Religion Black Yoda: Straw (Colored) Man Arguments Truthdig: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace Breaking Brown: barack obama doesn’t like black people (and that includes troy davis) “To All” – A message from Troy Anthony Davis
9/11: Ten Years After
“Today I do not honor terrorism, reinforce fear or plot revenge. No. I pause today to commit to less violence and more peace. I choose today to be a part of the healing instead of part of the destruction. I remember today that peace begins within and love is an action.” Wayne Hicks
Jasmine Revolution: An African Revolution Not For Black Africans
One of the illusions that Europeans and Arabs alike have successfully perpetrated for over a century, is that the northern part of Africa is not apart of the African continent. I have had discussions and arguments with so-called “highly educated people”… those with more than one grouping of letters behind their names, who are not aware that Egypt for example is in Africa. This includes Black Peop
altmuslim ★ 8
Perceptions of Muslims: What’s pork got to do with it?
In 2004, I was working in Washington, D.C. with the largest Muslim civil rights organization in America when I received a telephone call from a distressed American Muslim woman. She reported standing outside her home in Maryland when a car filled with teenage boys sped by but not before throwing a ham sandwich at her. She was calling to report this as a bias incident. Like Jews, Muslims are religi
US-Pakistan relations: Tragedy of two countries
An unassuming Iraqi peasant sitting down to a meal, some Afghan shopkeeper pulling down his shutters and some Pakhtun elder leading a jirga are caught in a circle of death along with New York firefighters and Pentagon janitors. On the shores of the United States there has been much commemoration, the date having become an iconised day of mourning to invest meaning in two confusing wars. On Pakista
Movie "Fordson": New English-speaking patriots
On a personal level, the most surprising aspect of Rashid Ghazi's new documentary, "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football," is that he managed to keep it a secret and even managed the time to make it. An old friend, he personally funded and directed this portrait of a week in the life of a tightly-knit Detroit community at the beginning of their 2009 school year. A husband, a father, and tireless exec
Remembering 9/11: A familiar yet unique story
I was walking west through Midtown Manhattan’s urban canyons and admiring the cloudless September day when I met a small, disparate group of distressed pedestrians looking skyward. They told me a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. It was such a clear day, but could it have been an accident? Minutes later when I came to Madison Avenue, I found people lining both the sidewalks. They were
The US economy: Lessons from the last caliphate
The U.S. Postal Service is a mess, drowning in debt and nearly done in like Hosni Mubarak by social media. One of its own plans to rescue itself calls for the elimination of 220,000 jobs, which is like shoving the entire population of Reno, Nevada, into a job market already overfull and desperate. Little wonder the country waits so eagerly for President Obama’s jobs plan. Except that what ails u
Town Called Dobson ★ 2
Will the GOP come out against math?
The current crop of Republican candidates have come out against basic science recently following the trend of dumbing down America. Breaking it down, they have stated they believe the Earth is only 6000 years old, hence they do not believe in Geology. GOP candidates stated they don’t believe burning fossil fuels leads to climate change, hence they do not believe in Chemistry. GOP candidates have
The Angry Black Woman ★ 6
RIP Troy Davis Time of death 11:08pm
I have a lot of black men in my life that I love. My husband, my sons, my nephews, my friends…I’m crying right now so this may be scattered. Any of the men I love could be Troy Davis. My husband’s first brush with the law was at 13 when a cop beat him up. Didn’t arrest him. Didn’t even tell him why he hit him. He was playing with friends one minute & being beaten the next. Think about that fo
Foodstamps 101
So I’ve seen more than a few posts lately from people who are in positions where food is scarce and so is money. And I’ve been in more than a few financially insecure situations myself, so I’m going to talk to you about poverty in America & making it work when you’re broke as hell in the United States. First off, apply for food stamps. Yes, even if you don’t have any children. If anyone tells
Check your BC, peeps!
Several brands of birth control pills are being recalled because they, uh, don’t work right. The brands included are: Cyclafem 7/7/7 Cyclafem 1/35 Emoquette Gildess FE 1.5/30 Gildess FE 1/20 Orsythia Previfem Tri-Previfem Basically, they’re labelled wrong, so you can still get pregnant even if you are taking them correctly. Jesus. I’m a little WTF over some of the media on this, like: The error
My Thoughts On The Latest #YesGayYA Developments
I meant to post this yesterday, but work things got in the way. Then the ever-wonderful Cleolinda posted the long, long post I was going to write and said everything I was going to say. So I’ll keep mine short. I suggest you click over to Cleolinda’s blog for the full story. Seriously. A few days ago Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith wrote a guest post for the Genreville blog over at Publish
bastard.logic ★ 5
Johann Hari Vs. Johann Hari On The Ethics Of Making Sh!t Up
by matttbastard Johann Hari, September 2011: “If I had asked the many experienced colleagues I have here at The Independent… they would have explained just how wrong I was. It was arrogant and stupid of me not to ask.” Indeed it was — or was it…? Johann Hari, June 2011: “I called round…other interviewers for British newspapers and they said what I did was normal practice and they had done it t
Looking Backward in the Year 2011
by matttbastard Der Spiegel runs down W’s “tragic legacy” in the long, long, looooong decade of U.S. decline that followed 9/11: America was trapped in Iraq for years, where a victory was a long time coming and was never a real one. It is currently trapped in Afghanistan, where victory no longer even seems possible. And it is trapped in an embrace with his its ally Pakistan, which it does not tru
Gary Don’t. Please, Just Don’t.
by matttbastard I have no clue who I’m going to endorse for the NDP leadership — but I sure as shit know which potential candidate will never, ever receive a vote from yours truly: sellout 3rd way posterchild Gary Doer, who has apparently sold his soul to rock & roll Ethical Oil™, that filthiest of filthy lucre. The G&M: Since becoming Canada’s ambassador to the United States in late 2009
Full Disclosure: Biased. Socialist. Bastard.
by matttbastard Yeah, so, once again I’m officially a member of the New Democratic Party of Canada. (If you’re not part of the solution, etc etc.) In my defence, this blog does not in any way represent or align with our dread State Broadcaster (eek!!1) — so don’t fret about your PRECIOUS TAX DOLLARS!!11 subsidizing this 7-Up* Socialist endeavour, Sun Meida [sic] sycophants. Also, my undies have a
WORLD TRUTH TODAY ★ 19
Lessons Not Learned: More Than 60% of Americans Still Plan On Getting Flu Vaccine
After all the accessible information available to the U.S. population on the dangers of vaccines, new survey data shows the message may not be getting through to the majority of people. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults plan to be vaccinated against the flu this season. Since the source of the survey comes from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the results may certainly be skewe
Uncensored Film Highlights Further Evidence That HIV Does Not Cause AIDS
International communities of scientists have been questioning the origin of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) for decades. Not only have they questioned the origin, but the shocking reality that HIV may not even be the cause of AIDS at all. Winner of a best documentary feature, House of Numbers rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based and how the story o
Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine
“On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk‘s polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vaccinated in the largest mass vaccination campaign ever. Polio virtually disappeared from the continent and Jonas Salk became a hero. But not long after, 260 children who were vaccinated with Salk’s vaccine became sick. Eleven of them died. An investigat
Major Terrorism Drill “Operation Mountain Guardian” In Denver Near Elenin Alignment Dates
A major terrorism drill has been scheduled four days before a supposed Elenin Alignment as world leaders plan recess and Obama joins NASA in Denver. A sign at Union Station In Denver Indicating DHS Drill Set To Take Place The Intel Hub September 21, 2011 On Friday September 23rd, a large scale terrorism drill involving 81 agencies will take place in Denver, Colorado. The drill, made possible by a
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center ★ 47
Leader in Southern Baptist Convention Ramps Up Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Anti-gay myths die hard. Or maybe they never die at all. Over the weekend, a leading figure in the Southern Baptist Convention recycled a number of the most egregious lies about LGBT people to reach the conclusion that they’re working to bring about the “outright sexual paganization of society.” Whatever that is. Yesterday, Right Wing [...]
News Roundup for September 26, 2011
Police in Brooklyn, N.Y., say a 24-year-old man was approached by a man who pretended to have a gun and was robbed of his cell phone. The victim was then asked about his sexual orientation, berated with anti-gay slurs and sexually assaulted. Prosecutors say the alleged victim of a hate crime in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, ignored [...]
Geller, Opposing Lawyer Claim Victory in Defamation Suit
Omar Tarazi, the Ohio lawyer who sued anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller a year ago for alleging he had links to terrorist organizations, withdrew his lawsuit this week in exchange for Geller taking down five blog posts containing her allegations against Tarazi. The settlement did not include any monetary damages. Tarazi is the lawyer who represented the [...]
Islamophobe Geller, in New Book, Accuses SPLC of Being ‘Communist Front’
Pamela Geller is the nation’s most charismatic purveyor of wild-eyed allegations that Muslim fanatics – which, in her mind, include every Muslim who hasn’t categorically renounced Islam itself – will topple the Constitution and impose Shariah law any day now, unless freedom-loving Americans heed her warnings. Her new book, “Stop the Islamization of America: A [...]
News Roundup for September 22, 2011
White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. The University of Montana’s Native American Center in Missoula was targeted with a racist sticker on a building earlier this week. The sticker listed a website for a white [...]
Okay, Now It’s All Clear…
Move over, Glenn Beck. The amusingly misnamed Accuracy in Media, a far-right organization that generally spends its time defaming gay people and all things on the political left, yesterday published an exhaustive, and exhausting, report that purports to unmask a Latino rights organization. And it makes the former Fox News host’s famous blackboard look downright [...]
INFRASTRUCTURIST ★ 48
Rush-Hour Read: How Tysons Corner is Becoming a Real City
To Washington, D.C., residents, the mention of Tysons Corner, Virginia, brings to mind images of vast highways, major shopping centers and corporate office parks. Now ambitious Northern Virginia officials hope to transform Tysons into an actual city. The expansion of Read more ›
The World’s 12 Most Beautiful Train Rides
Trains are becoming one of the world’s most popular forms of transportation, and the focus is typically on their function — whether it’s the new technology and growing speed of high-speed rail or the overcrowding in commuter trains. But what Read more ›
The Daily Dig: Which Cities Have the Worst Air Pollution?
• It’s now possible to see which places have the best and worst air pollution with the first global survey of air pollution released by the World Health Organization. (AP) • A city at the tip of North Korea is Read more ›
Dispatch from the Clinton Global Initiative: Mega Cities, Mega Challenges
This is a guest post by Benjamin Preston. As the world’s population approaches 7 billion, half of us are living in urban areas–up from 3% 200 years ago. If all goes according to prediction, that number will pass 70% by Read more ›
The Daily Dig: The New Way to Smuggle Drugs Is…Submarines?
• A drug smuggling submarine worth $2 million and belonging to narco-terrorists was seized by the Colombian police. (BBC) • Texas needs to come up with a new plan to build infrastructure that will allow the state to have enough Read more ›
What’s It Like to Get Stuck in a Train?
As the world’s population continues its inexorable move toward cities, and as public-transit ridership continues to rise, there’s a common experience that’s bonding all urban commuters: Getting stuck in a train. It’s one of those unique modern constructs that few Read more ›
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Amy Price For Houston City Council At-Large #4—Ms. Price Listens To People
Amy Price is a running as a Green Party candidate for Houston City Council at-large position 4. (Above–Ms. Price.) The incumbent in this race is C.O. Bradford. Mr. Bradford—a Democrat—has offered Democrats an austerity based fiscal message and a council tenure where he has worked with Republicans to undermine Mayor Annise Parker. Mr. Bradford’s record of service to the people of Houston includes
Ongoing Drought In Houston
Above is a picture of trees at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center. I took this picture yesterday. These trees are sick and dying due to the long drought that we are having in Houston and in Texas. Here is the most recent federal map on where in the U.S. drought conditions are prevailing. Here is a link to water conservation rules and suggestions for Houston. Here is a Houston Chronicle stor
Houston Council At-Large #2 Candidate Bolivar Fraga On All Sides—He Can Call Harris County GOP At 713-838-7900 To Clear Up Confusion
Houston At-Large #2 City Council Candidate Bolivar Fraga appears to be playing all sides. The Harris County Republican Party website lists Mr. Fraga as a Republican. This would make sense as Mr. Fraga voted in the 2010 Republican Primary. However, Mr. Fraga told Houston political blogger Charles Kuffner in an interview that he voted in the Republican primary to support one candidate in particular
200,000th Major League Baseball Game—Who Knew?
A few hours back I made a post about attending an Astros’ game this evening. As it turned out, this was the 200,00th Major League Baseball game played since the founding of the National League in 1876. Who knew? Well….it seems these nice folks below knew. Sometimes you just show up someplace and there is a blog post already waiting for you. The 200,000th game involved the Colorado Rockies defeati
End Of Baseball Season
(Blogger’s Note 9/25/11—As it turned out, this game was the 200,00th game in Major League Baseball history.) I’m attending what may be my final Houston Astros’ game of the season this evening. The regular baseball season ends next week. I follow baseball but do not often write about in the blog. There is enough sports out there already . The Astros’ are having the worst season they have ever had
Fall Is Here—Please Enjoy All Seasons Of The Year
(Blogger’s Note 9/23/11 –I made this post last year and have updated it just a bit for this year. It looks to me like it took some work, so why not use it again? Thanks for reading Texas Liberal. I hope you enjoy all seasons of the year.) September 22 is the first day of fall. (Above–The 1890 painting Autumn Rain by Julian Alden Weir.) What exactly is fall? Here is a definition. From that defint
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infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups ★ 18
AP Labeled "Racist" For Accurately Transcribing Obama Speech
AP Labeled "Racist" For Accurately Transcribing Obama Speech MSNBC is obsessed with playing the race card Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday,
Fed Program to "Monitor Conversations" Is Intimidation Tactic
Fed Program to "Monitor Conversations" Is Intimidation Tactic US Army was monitoring protests against Federal Reserve in 2008 Paul Joseph Watson Prison
Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Nam
Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Name Of Global Warming Neo-colonial land grabs carried out on behalf of World Bank-backed
Soros & Roubini: US Is Already In Recession
Soros & Roubini: US Is Already In Recession Economic fallout will cause unrest in United States Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, September 22,
Big Sis Tags Coffee Cups With Big Brother Eye
Big Sis Tags Coffee Cups With Big Brother Eye Homeland Security recruits jittery coffee drinkers to spot terrorists as part of See Something, Say Something
Ron Paul Cheated Out of Texas Straw Poll Win?
Ron Paul Cheated Out of Texas Straw Poll Win? Congressman would have defeated Governor Perry in his own state Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, September
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Street Scenes
by Daniel Bonner: The 20th Century wrought epic changes in city life. Two world wars helped transform culture. Cities teemed with people from all strata of society. The article vignettes scenes from a New York City neighborhood and discusses the impact social legisl
Class War Winner
by Joel S. Hirschhorn: For some thirty years a class war has been waged successfully in the US. And the winners are clear: the rich and powerful. Considerable data clearly prove the truth of this. What will it take to turn this class war around?
What is the South in today's time and place?
by Mark Vogl: Many Southern spokesmen talk of a different path, but what is it?
Putting the Godfather in the White House
by Rachel Lynn Robinson: Why the mainstream media is afraid of Herman Cain, and what the Florida Straw Poll means to his chance of winning.
Is the Solyndra Affair an Impeachable Offense?
by Kenn Jacobine: Unless you have been under a rock or possibly out of the country you know by now that there is great outrage in Washington, D.C. over the Obama Administration̢۪s $535 million loan to green company and now bankrupt entity Solyndra.
In These Times ★ 12
The English Language Ain’t That Bad
The quarterly journal I edit recently published a pair of scholarly articles on how English has changed over the centuries and how teachers might make use of these changes. My editorial for that issue of Changing English declared that "the English language has a long history" and "has thrived on change and has resisted the fixed, the conventional and the anodyne with a wonderfully sturdy capacity
Montana’s Not-So-Super Senator
On June 7, 2001, as the Marine Corps band played "Hail to the Chief," President George W. Bush strutted into the White House East Room to sign the "Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001" into law. That first round of Bush's infamous tax cuts--which President Obama in December agreed to extend--effectively transferred hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury to mul
Two Heads of One Political Monster
By now, probably everyone reading this is already sick of America's quadrennial political spectacle—the one in which politicians and media outlets ask us to believe that there remain vast differences between our two political parties. It's like cheaply staged pornography on a red and blue set, with words like "polarization," "socialist," and "extremist" compri
Donald Rumsfeld’s Ugly Suits
For the first time since the Bush administration stripped "war on terror" detainees of due process rights and redefined interrogation techniques to include torture, a federal appellate court has ruled against a high-level U.S. official in an anti-torture case. That means former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could become the first Bush-era official held liable for torture. Donald Vance and Nath
A New Model to Bank On
Jim Houser, co-owner of Hawthorne Auto Clinic in Portland, Ore., saw an opportunity to increase his sales of "plug-in" electrical charging kits for the locally popular Prius hybrid cars. But when he talked with his bank about a loan for enlarging his shop, which employs 14 full- and part-time workers, he got the distinct sense "that it would be a waste of time to formally apply for a loan." "Credi
The Other Media Crisis: Irrelevance
Why bother, anymore, railing against government ineptitude or exposing corporate corruption? These days, it feels like shaking your fist at the cosmos. There's been much gnashing of teeth about the crisis in journalism--shrinking news staffs, closing newspapers, the rise of unreliable blogs, etc. But there's another crisis we should be more worried about: the structural disconnect between the pres
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IPS Inter Press Service Earth Alert: Confronting Climate Change ★ 26
Q&A: "It Pays Off to Become More Energy Efficient"
With the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period set to expire in 2012, Connie Hedegaard, EU commissioner for climate action, is pushing for more countries to agree on binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
200 Million Depend on Melting Glaciers for Water
At least 200 million people in the world are in danger of being left without water, because they depend for their supply on glaciers that are melting, although paradoxically the process creates the illusion of plentiful water resources.
Jail Before Climate-Wrecking Tar Sands, Canadians Say
More than 200 Canadians engaged in civil disobedience, with 117 arrested in Canada's quiet capital city on Monday. The reason? To protest the Stephen Harper right-wing government's open support for the oil industry and expanding production in the climate-disrupting tar sands.
( I reject positioning claims of projected climate disaster ahead of known real dangers and deaths
OP-ED: Wangari Maathai: A 'Mighty Woman' Who Spoke Truth to Power
Last night, Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died. Most people think of Ms. Maathai as an environmentalist, planting trees. In reality, her environmental activism was part of a holistic approach to empowering women, advocating for democracy, and protecting the earth.
Q&A: "We Expect the Polluters to Pay"
Africa will have to present a strong position at the United Nations climate change conference later this year to ensure the continent will receive the financing to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
No Birds Sing in Monoculture "Forests"
Artificial single-species forests are expanding fast in countries of the developing South, fuelled by low production costs and incentives from governments, and causing severe social and environmental impacts, warned experts from around the world who met this week in the Uruguayan capital.
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