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Friday, October 23, 2009
San Francisco recruits, as Obama deliberates surge by Ann Garrison
This year's recruitment drive was more excruciating than most because it took place amidst daily reports on President Barack Obama's deliberations as to whether or not to put somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 more troops on the ground, in the U.S.-Euro war for oil, natural gas, pipeline corridors, and heroin.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Governor's proposals mirrors Third World structural readjustment by Willie L. Pelote
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to bridge the state's $24 billion budget deficit by shredding the state's social safety net through far ranging cuts to such areas as education, health care, social services, and public transportation is both disingenuous and fiscally irresponsible, especially since polls show that a majority of California voters oppose these cuts.

Friday, July 17, 2009
The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history: July 16, 1979, Navajo Reservation
Today, July 16th, 2009, is the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., U.S. Nuclear's earthen dam burst and 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Shouldn't California ask oil and gas drillers to give a little back, at last?
California gives oil and gas drilling corporations the sweetest deal on the planet. It's the only state in the union that doesn't tax oil and gas drilling revenues. And, if California were a nation, it would be the only nation in the world that doesn't tax oil and gas revenues. Twelve years of oil and gas taxes, at 9%, would equal the entire $24 billion state budget shortfall.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Obama in Cairo: no conciliatory words about oil and gas reserves
However, he did not mention Iraq, Iran, or Sudan's oil and natural gas resources, the pipeline projects to move Central Asian oil and natural gas through Afghanistan, or the estimated $4 billion worth of natural gas off the Coast of Gaza:

Saturday, June 6, 2009
How much offshore oil does Arnold Schwarzenegger plan to drill for?
"'Black gold' often brings hardship and misery to the societies where it found. Petroleum-producing countries are plagued by corrupt and authoritarian governments, lopsided and unsustainable economic development, and violent conflict." The same is true, especially now, in California.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Shame on Coalbama and R.F.K., Jr. too
The coal industry made Barack Obama the star of its $20 million advertising campaign as the American Clean Energy Policy Act of 2009 was being drafted, and RFK, Jr. called him an "indentured servant" of the coal industry. A young African American agreed with RFK, Jr., but objected to his choice of words.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Schwarzenegger's budget is an oil spill, off the California Coast
Last week the California Sierra Club and 24 other environmental organizations signed a letter opposing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to extend offshore oil drilling leases on the California Coast off Santa Barbara, supposedly to help fill the $19 billion hole in the California State budget crisis. The Tranquillon Ridge project would net no more than $100 million this year.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Yes we can burn coal
The American Clean Energy and Energy Security Act of 2009 is an advanced expression of Bush energy policy.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Green rhetoric for greenbacks = greenhouse gas
Last years' political campaign managers marketed their products with the environmental green brand now standard in industry, including even the weapons industry.

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Imperial nuclear power
Anyone who might be persuaded by the argument that nuclear power is a clean, green "solution" to global warming , including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and San Francisco Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom, should consider the devastating impact of uranium mining, the first step in the nuclear process, on indigenous peoples and environments all over the world.

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Bus riders on the back of the stimulus bus
(1 comments) Highway and bridge lobbyists trumped mass transit riders in the final stimulus bill. Our MTA and other transit authorities around the country seem to be in line for token stimulus funds, but only to fund new building projects; there's nothing for immediate operating support to stave off fare hikes, service cuts, and job lay-offs.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Uranium mining and weapons exposure, on the Navajo Nation
The uranium in uranium weapons that dying Navajo vets believed to have poisoned them might well have been mined in their own poisoned homeland, as the U.S. built its post World War II nuclear power, weapons, and war machine.

Sunday, May 24, 2009
Memorial Day at the Indy500: greenhouse gas, cars, stars & bars
Can't we honor and care for our veterans, instead of waging what Aaron Glantz, in his book "The War Comes Home," calls "America's war against veterans," but I would much rather see them honored with medical and psychiatric care, education, job training, and whatever else they may need to survive than with this Indy500 spectacle celebrating cars, greenhouse gas, advertising, militarism, and military recruitment.

Saturday, May 23, 2009
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nuclear Renaissance Man
Is it even conceivable that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mr. Olympia, Pumping Iron Champion, Terminator, and, Governor of California, would not become the nuclear power industry's most fervent advocate, and, the quintessential Nuclear Renaissance Man?

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Barack Obama has not been to the mountaintop, not in Appalachia
Barack Obama hasn't been to the mountaintop, not in Appalachia. Or, if he has, he wasn't moved, and he doesn't care; his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved 42 out of 48 permits to blow up Appalachian mountains---mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining permits.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Barack Obama is lying about the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead
Barack Obama is lying about the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead (RRW). He says that it's not in his budget. However, the RRW is in the $50 billion Pentagon "black budget," and this is Commander-in-Chief Obama's budget too.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Cmte on violence against women in D.R. Congo
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Eastern Congolese journalist and activist Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu spoke to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Drilling for war, offshore
(1 comments) Americans pay the highest gas taxes in the world: federal taxes, more than half of which go to the largest and most lethal military in history, to fight the War on Terror.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Clean green nuclear war machine
Most world class planet and people trashers, including Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Peabody Coal, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Barrick Gold, Monsanto, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Eison, and, Halliburton, have by now refashioned their corporate images in keeping with the Green Brand, as do Lockhheed-Martin, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, and the Pentagon.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Keeping up with the Californians, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gavin Newsom
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who now aspires to succeed him, both think that the rest of the world, and, most of all Detroit, should get hip to California's cutting edge environmental fashion.

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Will Gavin Newsom, Face of Israel, become the next governor of California?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom now aspires to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as the next Governor of California. In March 2008, the Jewish Community Federation arranged San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's all-expense paid junket to Israel, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. Israel21century.com recorded the mayor's promise to "continue the narrative ... for another 600 years."

Saturday, May 2, 2009
San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom now aspires to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor Greenwash II, of California,
San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom now aspires to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor Greenwash II, of California, where, to be elected, you've gotta be green or you've gotta greenwash. Newsom now advocates mega ocean wave energy, which is adamantly opposed by environmentalists on California's North Coast.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Reverse piracy: Toxic Euro and American electronic waste dumping in Africa
"Conflict minerals" coltan and cassiterite, essential to the electronics industries, are smuggled out of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda - and from there to who knows where, until they return to Africa, as toxic electronic waste.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Open Letter to Barack Obama and Ken Salazar
.An open letter to Barack Obama and his Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding the Bush plan to drill all 1.7 billion ocean acres of the Outer Continetnal Shelf for oil and gas.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The holocaust in D.R. Congo; war for the sake of war itself
Cobalt is essential to our military industries' ability to manufacture the modern weapons of war. So, the Congo War, a.k.a. the African holocaust, is a war for the sake of war itself. Barack Obama's legacy, as our first African-American president, is at stake there.

Saturday, May 31, 2008
The Price of Uranium - House Votes Down $10 Million More for U.S.A.\'s Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead; Pelosi Abst
(1 comments) The House voted down another $10 million for the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead, but, keep in mind, that this is a Congressional election year, and $10 million is a tiny fraction of what the new nuke would cost.