Torture Inquiry Weighed for 6 Bush OfficialsBut when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The Obama honeymoon was over before it ever started. Holding the Bush Administration to account must be a priority from the moment he steps into the Oval office or he risks losing the credibility he needs to be the global leader and visionary we need him so desperately to be. So, what do we do with George W. Bush?
In one generation America has been transformed from a democracy into a strange new form of government, Disaster Capitalism.
Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps ...the true function is to keep citizens docile and inhibit their activism and dissent. "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that."
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Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics Today’s politics will never deliver environmental sustainability. Environmentalists must join with those seeking to reform politics and strengthen democracy...progressive politics are too enfeebled and Washington is increasingly in the hands of powerful corporate interests and concentrations of great wealth. The best hope for real change in America is a fusion of those concerned about environment, social justice, and strong democracy into one powerful progressive force.
The President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently.
Well, I think the record is quite clear. War crimes have been committed., Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld combined to sponsor the memos by John Yoo and Jay Bybee and others to sanction torture. CIA officials have committed war crimes. DOD officials have committed war crimes. If you look at the three decisions of the Supreme Court -- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush -- clearly laws have been broken, serious laws have been broken.
The fake American empire was the Achilles heel of the real one-party state,Jonathan Schell
Solar electricity has become cheaper than juice from new nuclear power plants in North Carolina, and will be far less expensive before nukes could be built. That’s according to a new report by the former chancellor of Duke University and emeritus chair of its economics department, who also said power companies are rejecting solar energy that’s priced below what new nuclear power would cost.
Investments in big new generators would only prop up and increase energy use rather than improve energy efficiency and conservation.
More fresh electricity capacity was added to the electricity grids of both the United States and Europe last year from wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable sources than from conventional power plants run on fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
It was the second year in a row that renewable energy beat its conventional competitors.
Electricity supply is "in transition from a world that was powered by fossil fuels to one that’s going to be powered by renewable sources of energy."
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
As we learned from the Gulf oil spill, we realize that high-impact accidents do happen, and it's quite likely that no one has a clue about how to clean them up or deal with the emergency. -- Michele Boyd
when I was an intervener in DP&L's plan to build a nuclear power plant in Delaware (a case I could not lose because the HTGR was faulty and I knew it) the News Journal called me Luddite.
When I directed my efforts toward the dangers presented by Salem and Hope Creek, all these years their tactic was to simply ignore me.
Finally, today, some truth is being told. Not all of it by any means, but I am thankful.
No region in America has so many people living within the overlapping, 50-mile planning areas of so many nuclear power reactors as northern Delaware and nearby areas in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.
Moreover, the News Journal article does not scratch the surface of all the dangers we are presented with here.
Such as:
The introduction into Hope Creek to produce cobalt-60 (the only commercial nuclear power plant in the country to do so)
The fact that the whole complex sits on 70-ft concrete piling with no rock bottom on an artificial island built from river dredging
The fact that commercial airlines flying into Philadelphia look right into Hope Creek's cooling tower, a perfect target for a highjacked aircraft to attack. See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuialS2LjA
And, why is there this unreasonable refusal by the Delaware Legislators to demand PUBLIC HEARINGS on the evacuation plan, as is the case in New Jersey!!! Yes I will be there again on the 14 of July to testify (as I have been every year) since Delaware does not give its citizens the same opportunity to question, to get informed, and to make the right decision in case of an accident.
The statement by DEMA officials that "We go out to organizations to speak about the plan" is useless. I have sent several emails, revealed in transcript, that these people, when speaking "OFF THE RECORD" speak with "forked tongue." Want proof? Just ask.
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This is a victory for small "d" democracy!
At our meeting last Saturday, it was agreed that there would be a tabling event on Newark Community Day in September in an effort to increase our numbers by asking people, especially new University students, to register as Greens. Next up- GPDE needs to run some credible candidates.
David McCorquodale Treasurer, Green Party of Delaware
Its a shame and blame for you,yes you american people!!!!!!!
Stop watching this desaster and go together on the street and fight against BP!
If these would happen in europe BP would be already a dead company!
All the money would go strait to solve the problems of this generations
desaster!!!
Wake up Americans!!!Stop Watching!
Posted by Patrick June 15, 2010 11:13 AM
"But then there were the Washington operatives on the political and economic teams who did not want to waste a bunch of bullets on some weirdo green crusade when the polling numbers weren’t there, and it would be a bloody battle to take that hill. They said, ‘Let’s go take some other hill.’
It’s time for Obama to intervene on the Hill, silence the naysayers inside his own administration, harness the public mood, and make good on his promise to fight."
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WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.
Volcanic activity and large meteorite strikes in the past have "resulted in hostile conditions that have increased extinction rates and driven ecosystem collapse," the report says. "There is now overwhelming evidence human activities are driving rapid changes on a scale similar to these past events."
"It is unlikely that an accidental oil spill release would occur from the proposed activities."
You know, I think the push for offshore drilling is going to continue. I think whether we like it or not we are dependent on foreign oil supplies. The rate of investment in this country to move off of fossil fuels has been lagging some of the other economies and countries around the world and with the lack of a clear message out of Washington I think our dependence on fossil fuels, either imported or drilled offshore, is only going [to increase]. And I think environmental disasters like this are probably going to be more prevalent in the future.
And I think the U.S., in its inability to get in front on this issue, is abdicating its leadership to other countries around the world and going to find itself in a very difficult economic position in what many, including us, are calling the Industrial Revolution of the 21st century.
The cover story of the latest issue of Green Pages details how the Florida Greens are working with other anti-nuclear activists to prevent the licensing of three new reactors. With a pro-nuclear President in the White House, it’s critical that Greens work with activists around the country to defeat the idea that the answer to climate change is additional nuclear reactors.
In From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology states “After the 2007 climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, the Bush administration tried to initiate an alternate track of negotiations on climate policy that involved only a select handful of the more compliant countries … Now that the Obama administration has adopted essentially the same approach …”
Also included are articles on the upcoming mid-term elections and obituaries for Bob Long and Dennis Brutus. As always; read, comment, distribute.
With radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and a running person, a new ionizing radiation warning symbol is being introduced to supplement the traditional international symbol for radiation, the three cornered trefoil.
The new symbol is being launched today by the IAEA and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to help reduce needless deaths and serious injuries from accidental exposure to large radioactive sources. It will serve as a supplementary warning to the trefoil, which has no intuitive meaning and little recognition beyond those educated in its significance.
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