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Fracking: Things Find a Way

Posted on September 3, 2011 by iwilder

Things always find a way to happen … A pen leaking. Your shoelace coming untied. Toxic chemicals in your drinking water. What?!

Earthjustice released a great video short earlier this month explaining the threats posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for unconventional gas, including water contamination, an exploding house, dead livestock, and health impacts on residents living near fracking operations, to name a few.

It’s a great brief overview of the reasons why the lax oversight of fracking and other unconventional gas industry practices deserves immediate and intense scrutiny from public health and safety officials. Just last week, we witnessed Chesapeake Energy’s fracking well blowout in Bradford County, Pennsylvania – which eerily took place one year after the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico – contaminating local waterways and properties with drilling chemicals. That well blowout is thankfully now under control and awaiting a permanent plug, but it serves as another reminder of how ill-prepared the gas industry is to respond to such emergencies, and to prevent them in the first place.

Read more:
http://www.desmogblog.com/check-out-earthjustice-s-fracking-video-short-thing…

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Nader: 10 painful lessons of 9/11

Posted on September 3, 2011 by iwilder
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Here are some suggestions:

1. Do not exaggerate our adversaries’ strength in order to produce a climate of hysteria that results in repression of civil liberties, embodied in the overwrought USA Patriot Act, and immense long-term damage to our economy. Consider the massive diversion of trillions of dollars from domestic civilian needs because of the huge expansion and misspending in military and security budgets.

2. Do not allow our leaders to lie and exaggerate as when they told us there were funded, suicidal and hateful al-Qaeda cells all over our country. They were never here. Actually, the wholesale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan became recruiting grounds for more al-Qaeda branches there and in other countries – a fact acknowledged by both then-Army Chief of Staff George Casey and then-CIA Director Porter Goss.

via The Nader Page.

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NYCLU: New Stop-and-Frisk Numbers Shows NYPD Targets Innocent Minorities

Posted on September 3, 2011 by iwilder

 The NYPD is on track to stop and interrogate a record number of totally innocent New Yorkers in 2011, according to police reports analyzed by the New York Civil Liberties Union. During the first half of 2011, police made more than 317,000 stops of completely innocent New Yorkers – the overwhelming majority of whom were black and Latino. The reports come on the same day as the Associated Press reported on an intelligence program focusing on Muslim communities.

“The NYPD is making entire New York City neighborhoods Constitution-free zones,” said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “It is not a crime to live in a black or Muslim neighborhood, yet the NYPD appears to be treating both communities as if they are all criminals. The real crime here is the absolute lack of oversight and accountability over the NYPD. The NYPD is supposed to be watching out for us, but who’s watching them?”  Read more »

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Green Party endorses the Durban+10 Coalition for 10th anniversary of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism

Posted on September 2, 2011 by iwilder
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The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the Durban+10 Coalition and its efforts to enact the agenda of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, which took place in Durban, South Africa.  The goal of the Durban conference was “to eradicate racial discrimination, inequity, colonialism, xenophobia and related intolerances” throughout the world.

The full text of the resolution adopted on August 28, 2011 by the National Committee of the Green Party of the United States, with supporting information, can be read here: http://green.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=616

The 2001 Durban conference drew participation from the nations of the world, despite attempts by the Bush Administration to undermine the event and refusal by the Bush-Powell State Department to attend.  The Obama-Clinton State Department has maintained a similarly dismissive position on the conference.

“In this International Year for People of African Descent proclaimed by the UN General Assembly during its 64th session held in 2009, we in the Green Party hope that public officials and politicians, including President Obama, who are celebrating the new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will demonstrate their dedication to Dr. King’s principles and embrace the Durban conference and its goals,” said Denice Traina, former co-chair of the Georgia Green Party (http://www.greens.org/georgia).  Read more »

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Dark Horizon for Verizon by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on September 1, 2011 by iwilder

Dark Horizon for Verizon by Ralph Nader It was only a matter of time before the “pull down” NAFTA and WTO trade agreements on U.S. wages and jobs would be followed by “pull down” contract demands by U.S. corporations on their unionized workers toward levels of non-unionized laborers. The most recent illustrati … Read More

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Hillary Clinton’s State Department Oil Services and Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline by Mark Fiore

Posted on September 1, 2011 by iwilder

A not-so-far-fetched parody of Hillary Clinton’s State Department Oil Services and the influence of oil industry lobbyists on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline permit decision. For more information, visithttp://www.desmogblog.com/tarsands

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@BarackObama End the #Afghanistan War #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple

Posted on August 30, 2011 by iwilder

#AfghanistanTuesday tweetsWhat is #Afghanistan Tuesday?  The blog post Making an Impact on #AfghanistanTuesday describes it best:

October 6, 2011, marks ten years of U.S. war against Afghanistan. Ordinary Americans are saying, “Enough is enough!”

One of the ways they are showing how they feel is by making time every week to remember what’s happening in Afghanistan and push for change. On Twitter, this takes the form of #AfghanistanTuesday.

via @BarackObama End the #Afghanistan War #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple.

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Project Laundry List Executive Director Announcement

Posted on August 29, 2011 by iwilder

Project Laundry List is a 501(c)(3) organization based in New Hampshire that advocates for energy conservation through the promotion of line drying of laundry, and other easy, practical money-saving steps that individuals can take to use less energy.  PLL was founded by Alexander Lee in the mid-1990s while he was a college student at Middlebury College.  PLL has since grown to be recognized as a unique, innovative organization.  It has been featured in national media, including Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Colbert Report.  Research Project Laundry List at www.laundrylist.org.  Read more »

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Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal

Posted on August 29, 2011 by iwilder
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On the one side is Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, who is conducting his own investigation into the era of securitizations – the practice of chopping up assets like mortgages and converting them into saleable securities – that led up to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

On the other side is the Obama administration, the banks, and all the other state attorneys general.

This second camp has cooked up a deal that would allow the banks to walk away with just a seriously discounted fine from a generation of fraud that led to millions of people losing their homes.

via Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy.

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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide

Posted on August 29, 2011 by iwilder
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Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve  genetically engineered GE crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness giants like Monsanto and DuPont.

via New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide | Truthout.

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Town Produces 321% More Energy than It Uses

Posted on August 29, 2011 by kwilder
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A small Bavarian town in Germany called Wildpoldsried produces 321% more energy than it uses, from renewable and natural sources. It sells the excess energy for about $5.7 million each year. The point they are at now in terms of energy production and independence was reached by starting a plan about fourteen years ago to develop more clean energy sources and green building projects. The town with a population of about 2,500 started work on a huge community initiative involving the construction of new buildings and energy sources. The new buildings included a school, community hall and gym, and they employ solar panels, as do 190 private households. Five biogas digesters, nine windmills, three hydroelectric projects, ecological flood control and a natural waste water treatment system were part of the plan for energy independence. It all has worked well, and the town is debt-free. This is a community that previously was focused on farming for most incomes.

via Town Produces 321% More Energy than It Uses | Care2 Healthy Living.

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Ballot Access activists create “How-To-Lobby” video, that would be useful for many causes

Posted on August 29, 2011 by kwilder

Found this video at Ballot Access News. It is specific to The Voter’s Choice Act, but could be applied to any grassroots lobbying.

There are a few reasons why Ian and I think this video is great. It was created by a coalition of various third party activists. And, we know one of the actors from Green Party politics. Also, one of the candidates whose story is mentioned is Carl Romanelli, who we like, and have videotaped. And, another one of the oppressed candidates is Nader. You can see our archival videos below, which relate to the problem at hand.

Here is a link to the above video at Youtube. Read more »

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Pacifist Indiana college picks anthem replacement

Posted on August 28, 2011 by iwilder
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A small northern Indiana college that decided to stop playing the national anthem at sporting events will play “America the Beautiful” instead.

Goshen College President Jim Brenneman says “America the Beautiful” is a better fit with the pacifist traditions of the Mennonite Church-affiliated school.

via The Associated Press: Pacifist Indiana college picks anthem replacement.

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Rich Man Whining

Posted on August 28, 2011 by iwilder
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Looking at federal income taxes alone, the JCT staff found that the over $1 million club faces effective income tax rates of a little over 24 percent — hardly the punitive rates implied in Golub’s Op-Ed piece. And when one gets to the superrich, effective federal income tax rates actually decline further, because so much of their income is taxed as long-term capital gain, at a 15 percent rate. The IRS publishes data annually on the 400 highest-income tax returns for the year. For 2008 (the most recent year), their effective federal income tax rate was only 18.1 percent. If one measured their tax liabilities against their true economic income (including items like tax-exempt municipal bond income and capital gains not yet harvested through a sale), that rate would decline still further.

via Edward D. Kleinbard: Rich Man Whining.

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