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‘Sceptical environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world

Posted on September 7, 2010 by iwilder

via Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change | Environment | The Guardian.

Danish professor Bjorn Lomborg. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty ImagesThe world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must confront”, in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.

Bjørn Lomborg, the self-styled “sceptical environmentalist” once compared to Adolf Hitler by the UN’s climate chief, is famous for attacking climate scientists, campaigners, the media and others for exaggerating the rate of global warming and its effects on humans, and the costly waste of policies to stop the problem.

But in a new book to be published next month, Lomborg will call for tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change. “Investing $100bn annually would mean that we could essentially resolve the climate change problem by the end of this century,” the book concludes.

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) Opposes Border Patrol Sweeps in Upstate New York

Posted on September 7, 2010 by iwilder
The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates. The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of New York State candidatefor Governor, said today if elected he would seek to end the sweeps by the Border Patrol in upstate New York.

The Board Patrol frequently boards buses and trains in upstate New York and asks people of color to provide documentation of their legal residency or citizenship. Some of the Green Party candidates for office this fall have been subjected to this treatment.

Hawkins said:

New York has always prided itself on being a melting pot. Our state has often revived itself both economically and socially by a new wave of immigration. New York is not just a home for people of northern European descent. People should not be targeted due to the color of the skin or their accent.

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OpEdNews: New Book Concludes Chernobyl death toll is 985,000, mostly from cancer

Posted on September 7, 2010 by iwilder

This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the United States and other nations were trying to “revive” nuclear power. And it followed the publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.

via OpEdNews – Article: New Book Concludes: Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer.

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9/7/10: Hundreds of Youth to Rally Against Unregulated Police in Schools and Urge Passage of Student Safety Act

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder

Tuesday, September 7, 2010, the day before school starts in New York City, hundreds of students, parents and lawmakers will join the Student Safety Coalition in front of Tweed Hall to rally support for the Student Safety Act, legislation being considered by the City Council that will bring transparency and accountability to NYPD activity and Department of Education suspension practices in the city’s schools. Joining the group will be Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old who was handcuffed and arrested in February for scribbling on her desk in erasable marker.

The Student Safety Act will require the NYPD and DOE to report quarterly to the City Council on the numbers of suspensions, expulsions and arrests in schools. Information will be broken down by students’ race, sex, disability and socioeconomic status. The council and public will be able to use this data to ensure that discipline is enforced equitably throughout the school system and develop better school safety policies.

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free market

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder
Enron

Image by elycefeliz via Flickr

deregulation
California energy crisis
arctic wilderness
belong to us
how many cents on the dollar
are they trying to give away

national energy policy
oil coal gas
conservation can belong in
Ed Bennet’s book of virtues
nuclear energy
a bad idea
DANGEROUS
was supposed to be too cheap to meter
where did that promise go?
a dangerous idea
with a long half-life

-Ian Wilder

found on the back of a January 13th N&S flyer

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Pick Clements (G-SC) for U.S. Senate (via Progressive Pundit)

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder

Pick Clements for U.S. Senate [This is my letter to the editor that was published today, Saturday September 4th in The Greenville News.] There has been extensive coverage of Democrat Alvin Greene, whose constant gaffes and suspicious past make him easy pickings for media ratings. In fact, Greene has garnered more media attention than most other Congressiona … Read More

via Progressive Pundit

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time to give up on the republocrats (via The Constitution is Good)

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder

When I use the word "republicrats," I'm referring to the republicans and democrats. In my mind, they are two wings of the same party. Therefore, I combine the names of the prties and call them republicrats. Let's have some examples of how they are the same. Both democrat and republican politicians support anti-privacy laws such as the Patriot Act. Both republican and democrat politicians support military intervention around the world. Both democr … Read More

via The Constitution is Good

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Please write letters to the Editor for Hawkins and Greens

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder
The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates. The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.

The letter to the editor section of the newspaper remains the second most read part of the paper. The Green Party hardly ever shows up in the regular section of the paper. But with your help, we can show up in the letters to the editor. This is especially true outside of NYC.

An upfront call to vote for Hawkins may run into trouble getting past the editor. So it is good idea to talk about a larger issue and then point out where the Greens stand on it.

Check your paper to see what the word limit is. The two samples below are under 300 words. Daily papers often have a limit as to how often your letter can appear. Some may not publish letters about candidates a few weeks or month before the election – so submit early and often. Weekly papers are often most open to having repeated letters from the same author. Localize the letter if you can – make reference to local events.

The letters below are about health care and peace.  Feel free to come up with your own topics. You can also check the media section of www.howiehawkins. org to see Howie’s news releases.

Good luck. Build a Green World.

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Letter one

Health care is one on the greatest problems facing America.  I believe health care should be a right – just like it is for the residents of every other industrial society.  Read more »

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Shinnecock Powwow 2010 Photos

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder

Backstage at the Pow Wow

We had a great time at the Shinnecock Powwow yesterday! [We went Sunday] What a beautiful, blue sky day. Lots of beautiful jewelry and crafts for sale. Awesome drumming and the culture of all the Native American regalia.

Beautiful gallery at 27east: here

Google IMAGE search page: here

Some of our photos below the fold…

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GMOs in Food: Genetically Modified Food & Our Kids | Long Island Press

Posted on September 6, 2010 by iwilder

GMOs in Food: Genetically Modified Food & Our Kids | Long Island Press.

She calls it Franken-food, genocide.
Strawberries grown from seeds injected with DNA from arctic flounder fish to make them frost resistant. Seeds pumped with suicide genes that yield an infertile harvest so corporations can profit from a patent placed on the plant’s genetic code. Rice injected with traits that make it more nutritious so those in parts of the world where vitamin deficiencies are often fatal have a dependable source of vitamins. Wheat injected with bacteria that renders  its grain resistant to pesticides and insecticides. Cows injected with artificial sex hormones so they produce more milk.

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Threads

Posted on September 5, 2010 by iwilder
Alpaca-wool.

Image via Wikipedia

an eagle soars
out of the gift
in the palm of my hand
falling backwards
into a circle of friends
finding a lover
in my open arms

sometimes
I can’t see
the threads
until the cloth
is woven

the eagle soars
and the bear cries
a lover
in my open arms
and beauty
through another’s eyes

so many hands weave
the life I have chosen
sometimes
I can’t see
those threads
until the cloth
is woven

– Ian Wilder

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Third Party and Independent Daily: Anti-war movement and TEA party must hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately

Posted on September 5, 2010 by iwilder

In a Green Party press release reaching out to elements of the Tea Party, Rodger Jennings says

Republicans and rightwing ideologues in the media are thrilled with a Tea Party movement that will channel votes and money towards extremist GOP politicians. Their idea of the Tea Party has nothing to do with the 1773 Boston Tea Party. They prefer a movement full of people who would have denounced the original Boston Tea Party as leftist terrorism against the British East India Company. They would have criticized Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine for wanting to rein in what Jefferson called ‘the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations.‘* To these Tea Partiers, and to most Republican and Democratic politicians, restraints on corporate power are a symptom of ‘big government.’

In the same press release,

The Green Party has warned that, whether Obamacare is enacted or Republicans succeed in blocking reform, the real winners will be the health insurance, pharmaceutical, and other industry lobbies.

Greens also compared the invasive homeland security measures favored by Republicans and Democrats to the bullying tactics of the British Army and requirement that colonists house British troops on demand.

“We need a Tea Party movement that opposes warrantless surveillance of American citizens, torture, invasion of other countries, and other violations of the US Constitution. [..] We need a Tea Party against predatory private prisons, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration of Americans. We need a Tea Party that defends future generations of Americans rather than corporate polluters,” said Lynne Williams, Green-Independent candidate for Governor of Maine.

“We need a Tea Party that recognizes corporations as artificial entities created by government fiat, and that corporations must not enjoy the same free speech and other constitutional rights as humans.”

via Third Party and Independent Daily: Anti-war movement and TEA party must hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

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John Denver singing “The Strangest Dream” at an anti Vietnam war protest march in 1971 video

Posted on September 5, 2010 by iwilder

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Florida Secretary Of State Denies Ballot Access To Libertarian Governor Candidate

Posted on September 5, 2010 by kwilder

from Ballot Access News
Florida Secretary of State Removes Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate from Ballot
September 4th, 2010

The Florida Secretary of State’s office has removed John Wayne Smith from the November ballot.  He is the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor.  The Secretary of State’s office says he didn’t submit all the necessary forms.  However, Smith says he submitted all forms in person on June 17, and he has witnesses and photos of himself submitting the paperwork.  Read more »

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