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In Commack: Save The Farm

Posted on June 15, 2010 by kwilder

Commack School District threatens to sell historic farm…fast!
(Images of farm and some of the previous restoration process: here.)

Marion Carll Farm: Commack, Long Island: Slated for a quick sale to a developer

KW: This story sounds fishy to me. If it is so important to sell this land to corporation that will preserve it on any level, then why wasn’t a plan presented the community, and notice of the sale and transaction allowed on the free market, for a much longer amount of time? If I were a community member of The Commack School District, I would put the brakes on fast, and make the district at least take new proposals and new bids. I think there might be a few people or organizations who would want to buy a historic barn, on property on Long Island next to a golf course, for $750,000. I would also suggest that someone scan the bios of board members for any links to the corporation at hand…this all seems fishy and should be investigated more…Land is a valuable thing. Land on Long Island is even more valuable. This decision should be considered extra carefully. (There are many school districts who made similar decisions and came to regret them years later. Years later, you have lost precious land, and the money is only a memory…)

(excerpt from) Newsday
Sale of historic farm on Commack school ballot
Originally published: June 12, 2010 / Updated: June 14, 2010
By STACEY ALTHERR  stacey.altherr at newsday dot com

Commack School Board wants to sell 1860 Marion Carll property for $750,000 to a developer who plans to build 30 single family homes. Community association says it wants June 24 vote delayed. Read more »

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Green Party vs. Tea Party (via Perambulations & Ruminations)

Posted on June 15, 2010 by iwilder

A few weeks ago, the Dalai Lama said he would join a U.S. Green Party if there were one. This was at about the same time that much of the media was focused on the latest stop on the Tea Party bus tour. The Greens, by now, have been around for a number of years. Several cities have Green Party Mayors; several states have Green Party candidates running governor and other state offices. They have a platform, with real positions on real issues, thing … Read More

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For United States Senate: Tom Clements (via South Carolina Green Party)

Posted on June 15, 2010 by iwilder

For United States Senate: Tom Clements 2010 South Carolina Green Party Candidate For United States Senate: Tom Clements Tom Clements is currently the Southeastern Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for the US branch of Friends of the Earth, a full-time position he has held since January 2008. Tom worked for 13 years as a nuclear campaigner with the Greenpeace International n … Read More

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The rise and fall of BP (via the nef triple crunch blog)

Posted on June 15, 2010 by iwilder

The rise and fall of BP Andrew Simms is nef's Policy Director and head of nef's Climate Change programme. As names go, the First Exploitation Company sounds like an inspired slight dreamed up by an angry anti-oil campaigner. In fact, it was the original title, coined in 1903, of the troubled company we now know as BP. But then, public relations have never been its strong point. Over the course of a century BP, in its various guises, has managed to outrage everyone from … Read More

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small is all. well, for me at least. But, you know, to each her own. (via resistance is fertile)

Posted on June 14, 2010 by iwilder

those chocolates taste as wonderful as they look. did I mention they’re vegan? – IW

small is all. well, for me at least. But, you know, to each her own. I recently had this interesting discussion on Facebook, and figured I'd repost it here so that we could open up and continue the discussion. Your thoughts? I said: Really upset about another company acquiring Tuthilltown Spirits Hudson whiskey line, but hey, it's all about making money, right? Capitalism demands mergers and acquisitions in order to consolidate wealth among the fewest people possible. Good to see our friendly small local artisan w … Read More

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Gulf Oil Disaster: Not Your Usual Media “Coverage” (via amy king’s alias)

Posted on June 14, 2010 by iwilder

Not Your Usual Media "Coverage" Poets for Living Waters – New Statements / Poems I don’t have the answers. I barely have the questions.  But I’m not egotistical enough to imagine I can come up with a solution or complete understanding on my own.  I also don’t think sitting in front of the TV, feeling angry and impotent, is the answer. This is our Chernobyl. Our genocidal war with our own environment.  We may implode with oil and shed a tear for the dead fishing industries.  Swi … Read More

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Ralph Nader: Time for a peaceful, political revolution! (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on June 14, 2010 by iwilder

Ralph Nader: Time for a peaceful, political revolution! http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1104438 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews June 14, 2010 — Ralph Nader: The finance reform bill is a set of weak regulations; what's needed is a shift in power [vodpod id=Video.3830331&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] NADER: Weak regulations, not a shift in power see Ralph Nader says reinstate Helen Thomas The Stimulat … Read More

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY): Seize & Prosecute BP

Posted on June 14, 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 for GPNYS Guv by Shawna Cole

Hawkins, Lawrence, Clark Call for Obama to Seize BP Assets to Pay for Oil Spill Damage

Green Party candidates for NY statewide office, including Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins and Cecile Lawrence and Colia Clark for US Senate, joined today in the growing call for President Obama to seize British Petroleum’s assets and to initiate criminal prosecution of BP and its leaders.. The assets seized should at least be in an amount commensurate with the damage caused by their criminal negligence, and that the funds should be placed into a trust that could quickly and easily pay for damages and compensation now and into the future as more damages accrue.

The Green Party also pointed out that the nation’s largest environmental disaster underscores the need to ban the hydrofracking for natural gas deposits in order to protect the state’s water supplies and public health.

Hawkins, who participated in the Seize BP demonstration in Syracuse last Friday, June 11, said

It is imperative that the US government seize BP’s assets to insure they are used to pay for damages and clean-up from the oil blowout before BP’s executives and owners cash out and leave the taxpayers holding the bag. It is equally imperative that the trustees of the fund to administer the use of BP’s seized assets represent the people affected and include Gulf Coast representatives of the workers, unions, and small businesses of the fishing, shrimping, crabbing, tourism, and recreation industries, local elected officials, and independent scientists and environmentalists.

As we saw in the case of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, we cannot rely on the courts for justice in corporate environmental crimes. Exxon’s legal army stretched the case out over two decades. The original jury award of  $5 billion in punitive damages was reduced by 90 percent to $507 million by the time the US Supreme Court rendered the final decision in 2008.

When Republican former Army Chief of Staff Colin Powell and Democratic former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and the states of Florida and Louisiana agree with the grassroots environmental movement and the Green Party that the government should take control of BP’s assets, the only politics that can stop the Seize BP movement now are the politics of pandering to corporate power.

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) Urges Cuomo to Join Him in Opposing Paterson’s Cuts to State Safety Net

Posted on June 13, 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 for GPNYS Guv by Shawna Cole

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, urged Andrew Cuomo to join him in calling upon Governor Paterson to avoid deep cuts to the state’s safety net in next week’s budget extender.

Hawkins said:

As the Green Party candidate for Governor, I oppose balancing the state budget on the backs of poor people as Paterson proposes. Mr. Cuomo’s agenda says he wants to protect the state’s safety net. He should stand behind his rhetoric by joining me in calling upon the Governor to r eject the proposed cuts in the state’s TANF  programs. We should instead use the $638 million windfall in federal welfare dollars as intended, to create jobs and increase benefits for the state’s most vulnerable members. Unfortunately, Paterson wants to divert these funds intended to help poor New Yorkers into general budget relief while refusing to make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.  Read more »

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) Decries NYS Senate Defeat of Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act

Posted on June 13, 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 for GPNYS Guv by Shawna ColeHowie Hawkins, the Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, expressed his disappointment today over the defeat of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which would protect against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in areas like housing and employment. The bill was killed Tuesday morning in the senate judiciary committee. All Republican members as well as Democratic state Senator Ruben Diaz voted against the bill.

Hawkins said:

The Greens support full rights for all members of our society, regardless of sexual orientation or gender. Green Party members like Mayor Jason West of New Paltz have provided critical leadership to issues such as the right to same-sex marriage. As Governor, I intend to follow his example and use my office to push for full rights for all New Yorkers.

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CA Green Party supports lawsuit, consider initiative to nullify Prop. 14 Top @ Tyranny

Posted on June 12, 2010 by iwilder

Measure is a clear example of how big money buys California elections, charges Green Party gubernatorial nominee

The Green Party of California’s gubernatorial nominee Wednesday called the passage of Prop. 14 and near victories of Prop. 16 and 17 clear examples of how big money is buying elections in California, using tens of millions of dollars to mislead voters.

The state’s most progressive political party said it is mulling its options after Tuesday, including joining a lawsuit to overturn Prop.14 and a possible statewide initiative to nullify it.

“The rotten part of Prop. 14 is that what it promised – open elections – is the exact opposite of what it will do. Prop. 14 will keep dissenting voices off the big November ballot,” said Laura Wells, who won the Green Party nomination for Governor Tuesday night with a victory over Los Angeles social justice activist Deacon Alexander. Read more »

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Desperate message from geologist…”To BP and Obama – Publish the mudlogs!”

Posted on June 11, 2010 by iwilder

President Obama and B.P. SHOW US THE MUDLOGS!
By  Chris Landau, geologist

What are you hiding? Why are you hiding them?

2 (two) new directional wells being drilled into this well, theoretically to be completed by August 2010, will not work to solve this Transocean-Halliburton-BP blowout well and will create a larger uncontrolled blowout disaster.

Reasons for the mudlogs

1)    A mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored. Without looking at the mudlogs and e-logs, we are all navigating blind. They are the forensic tool that you use to discover what happened. The mudlog is your map and your compass and your guiding star. Read more »

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Did you know that LI has “Summer Pops” concerts?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by kwilder

Two Groups (same, energetic conductor):

Concert Pops of Long Island
A professional concert band and orchestra.
Conducted by Dean Karahalis.

here
FTC Pops
Grad students, undergrad students, and community members who
rehearse at Five Towns College.
Conducted by Dean Karahalis.

Free summer concerts for the Long Island community. What you might find at a Pops Concert: songs from the movies; Broadway musicals; a march here and there; and just a taste of the most memorable portions of your favorite classics. Rousing is a good word for a Pops concert.

The schedule: Read more »

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Atomic Bomb proposal for Gulf of Mexico blown out well a very bad idea!

Posted on June 9, 2010 by kwilder

Atomic Bomb proposal for Gulf of Mexico blown out well a very bad idea for many reasons
by Mud Logging Geologist Chris Landau

Before I explain why there are a few points that the lay person must understand about terminology on a drilling rig and positions of seniority.

  1. A mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored.

Without looking at the mudlogs and e-logs, we are all navigating blind. They are the forensic tool that you use to discover what happened. Without the mudlog and e-logs, it like asking a person to cross the Antarctic without a map, a compass, a sextant, a radio, a satellite phone, a GPS system or any tool to help them navigate. Let us also include no navigation by the sun or stars. Basically we are being asked to find our way to the South Pole across a thousand miles of ice by gut feel alone. We all know we will get lost and not survive. The mudlog is your map and your compass and your forensic tool. Read more »

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