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The New War
From NATO to the U.S. National Guard, militaries around the world are being called upon to fight climate change. A new Forever War. What could go wrong?
Is this a viable and productive mission for militaries around the world? What problems in military-civil authority might arise?
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Water crisis.
Water crisis for the 40
million people who depend on the Colorado River.
Foreign countries spend
money to create problems in other parts of the world as far as 7,000 miles
away.
No one questions why
demonstrators have waved separatists flags who have been supported by the likes of
Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has been immune
from illegal Western sanctions while killing innocent people in Yemen using the arm... |
 Obscure Biden Directive Could Reverse Four Decades of Conservative Policy On his first day in office, President Joe Biden quickly set about undoing some of his predecessor’s signature policies... Tucked into all of those high-profile moves, though, was a memo with a title seemingly designed to be ignored: “Modernizing Regulatory Review.” Sent to the press at 9:43 p.m. on Wednesday in the middle of the Tom Hanks-led inaugural celebration, the White House was not ... 2  |
 How Bernie Sanders to help Down-ballot Democrats & Himself, by Demonizing Conservatism for Destroying Our Democracy The 1971 Powell Memo, by a conservative democrat, was the catalysis for a conservative counter-revolution knee-capping both progressivism and democracy in America. Virtually all, republicans brag of a more conservative track-record than their democratic opponent. However, the linked article makes the case that Joe Biden’s approach to politics is based on “appeasing the right” and “taking... 1 |
 What are toxic 'forever chemicals' & should Americans be worried there are more of them in the water supply than we thou American drinking water is far more contaminated than previously estimated — by carcinogenic ‘forever chemicals’ that linger in the blood and cause a range of health problems. A major report has been published by an environmental watchdog agency about the state of the drinking supply in the US. The findings from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) show that hundreds of millions... 6 |
 Stop Infantilizing Greta Thunberg With Claims of 'Abuse' By casting Thunberg as little more than a puppet of her parents and climate activists (as satire site Babylon Bee put it, “Marionette Strings Clearly Visible During Greta Thunberg Testimony”) these authors can discredit Thunberg as a pawn, without agency, for a group of manipulative, Machiavellian adult activists.The weaponization of mental health diagnoses, or pseudo-diagnoses, for political gain is far from... 7 |
 Children, it seems, should only be seen, not heard. It is strange to see how some on the left suddenly turn into Victorian prudes the moment the 16-year-old Swede says exactly what they have been thinking but does so to much greater effect. Children, it seems, should again only be seen, not heard. Thunberg and her generation are living on a dying planet, a planet the older generation – through their greed, their alienation from the natural world, and their spiritual... 1 |
Greta Thunberg wants you afraid, and big business will make a killing off it
Do the climate change sermons of Greta Thunberg fill you with anxiety
and dread? If so, then that’s the point. Thunberg and the modern
eco-cultists all sing from the same hymn sheet, and fear is their most
effective tactic. But the fearmongering is deliberate.
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 Greta Thunberg: 'They see us as a threat because we're having an impact' OPEC declared Thunberg and her young climate activists to be the “greatest threat” to the fossil fuel industry. Thunberg tweeted them her thanks. “Our biggest compliment yet.” Hers is a voice unlike the world’s usual power-cacophony: clean, simple, inclusive, refusing to beguile. She talks ethics to politics without flinching. She cuts through the media white noise and political rabble-ro... |
 Why a Heat Wave in Alaska Should Justifiably Terrify Anyone; Anchorage's Weather Similar to Miami's Right Now With Alaska in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that experts say is driven by the climate crisis, Anchorage—the state’s largest city—reached an all-time high temperature of 90 degrees on Thursday. Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org: “This isn’t just breaking a record—it’s obliterating a record that’s stood for more than half ... |
In 'climate apartheid', rich will save themselves while poor suffer: U.N. report
The world is on course for "climate apartheid", where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a U.N. human rights report said on Tuesday. The report was submitted to the UN however not much is expected to be done as depopulation is a major concern of those moving toward a One Government World in which the UN is the headquarters.
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 The U.S. should heed Warren Buffett's Advice to Solve Our Biggest Problems like Failed Free Trade Agreements! Stan Sorscher states: "You need to squint to see the difference between NAFTA and its replacement”. Widespread dissatisfaction with this and other Free Trade Agreements (FTA) reflect market failures, as does, many of our biggest problems — climate change, growing income inequality, health care, food safety, and workplace safety. Warren Buffett’s advice is reflected in the preceding graphic. Fixing... 2 |
 #NoMiddleGround goes viral as Sanders backers reject compromise on Medicare for All or bold climate agenda Sanders’s remarks demanding a bold progressive agenda were applauded at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco, where the VT senator received a standing ovation while calls for moderation by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Rep. John Delaney were panned by many in the crowd. Sanders: "We will not defeat Donald Trump unless we bring excitement and energy into the campaign, ... |
 Power to the people - community solar works~by the Mayors of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces, New Mexico By Tim Keller, Ken Miyagishima and Alan WebberCommunity solar transcends political ideology. Rather than spending tax dollars for a transition to clean energy, it unleashes market power to do it, eliminating outdated regulations preventing residents from generating clean energy.Gov. Lujan Grisham is right to champion a NM Renewable Portfolio Standard~setting clear and responsible goals for procuring sustainable energy. T... |
 Sen. Joe Manchin can't lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee From Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, a Petition:It's time for progressives to take a stand for combating climate change. Appointing Senator Joe Manchin to lead Democrats on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would be the opposite of that. Here are the facts: Joe Manchin literally shot climate legislation in one of his campaign ads. He supports Donald Trump’s dirty energy agenda. He simply can't b... |
 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders Discussing the Economics of Clean Energy and Climate Change Quite a conversation between Bernie and Alexandria and others on the ECONOMICS of Clean Energy, ways to make it pay jobs and not depend on the corrupted dirty energy economies of the past century. This is a crucial consideration to win the support of Blue Collar communities and millions of folks in the Rust Belt. |
 Two Imminent Existential Threats. Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Humanity faces two imminent existential threats: environmental catastrophe and nuclear war. These were virtually ignored in the campaign rhetoric and general coverage. There was plenty of criticism of the Trump administration, but scarcely a word about by far the most ominous positions the administration has taken: increasing the already dire threat of nuclear war, and racing to destroy the physical environment that organized... 10 |
Human race just 0.01% of all life but has destroyed over 80% of wild mammals -- study
Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abo... 3 |
 When the U.S. Military Came to Guam - Environment, Wildlife, and Snakes And then there are the snakes.Sometime in the years right after WWII, as military planes were flying in and out of Guam, a species called the brown tree snake hitched a ride from the South Pacific. It grows several feet long and feeds on small mammals, lizards, and birds. On the island, this invasive predator found easy prey. It feasted on Micronesian kingfishers and Mariana fruit doves and rufous fantails; in just a few deca... |
Climate change could unleash vast reserves of toxic mercury from Arctic permafrost The northern hemisphere's permafrost regions have been concealing a really unpleasant surprise: mercury. A lot of mercury. Nearly twice as much mercury as the rest of the planet's natural mercury combined.Researchers from the US Geological Survey studied core samples from the Alaskan permafrost, and their estimates show 793 million kilograms of mercury have been trapped in the northern hemisphere's permafrost since the last I... 1 |
 TRNN SPECIAL: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science This 32 minute video from The Real News Network exposes the amazing Koch Brothers project to create doubt that climate change is real and a threat to life on Earth. Freedom of speech does not extend to billion dollar propaganda projects that clearly are motivated by greed without regard to the truth Exxon's own funded research revealed--that fossil fuel is causing global warming. I don’t understand how intelligent peopl... 3 |
 Venezuela Will Never Tolerate This This article by Peter Koenig is a Must Read! Ignore the inundation of Houston for half an hour, along with the Trumpster's Celebrity Visit. Fat lot of good he is anyway, as the cameras busily record his vanities! If someone else has submitted this link, Good on you. The more people who read it and become aware of how insanely criminal the latest Boycott of Venezuela is, the better.Ho... 10 |
 Thirty Seconds to Midnight--The Final Wake Up Call Don't watch this if you are weak at heart. The linked documentary says that if humans don't stop feeding climate change, using nuclear power and weapons, and probing Russia in a futile quest for world domination, humans will not be around much longer. I see no problems with the facts of the documentary, but I am not as optimistic as it shows regarding civilization's ability to stop the run-away madness. 5 |
 Home truths about the climate emergency "As 2016 draws to a close, we appear to be living in a world that is increasingly defined by its illusions, where the truth is a matter of subjective interpretation or argumentative debate. Indeed, following the United States election and Brexit referendum there is much talk of a new era of post-truth politics, in which appeals to emotion count more than verifiable facts. But there are some facts that cannot be ignored for mu... 3 |
 'Biggest Oil Find' of 2016 Puts Crown Jewel Texas Oasis in Crosshairs for Fracking REEVES COUNTY, TEXAS — Travelers crossing the long stretch of arid desert spanning West Texas might stumble across an extraordinarily improbable sight — a tiny teeming wetlands, a sliver of marsh that seems like it should sit by the ocean but actually lays over 450 miles from the nearest coast.This cienega, or desert-wetlands (an ecosystem so unusual that its name sounds like a contradiction), lies ... |
 Co-sign a letter to the President-elect urging preservation of Paris Climate Accord I just created a new petition and I hope you can co-sign and share -- it implores President-elect Trump: "Please Don't Rip the 195-Country Togetherness Apart-Support Paris Accord." This issue is very important to us all, and together we can do something about it Campaigns like this always start small, but they grow when people like us get involved -- please take a second right now to help out by signing, sharing and oth... 1 |
 What We Can Do Now: Stop Hate Speech and Violence, Stop Trump We have a President who invites violence and welcomes misogyny. A House Speaker who has tried to eliminate foreign aid. A Senate that will confirm conservative justices to the Supreme Court. We also have each other. This is a collection of resources to help keep our communities safe, including resources on intervening to stop hate speech and de-escalate violence, creating physical safe spaces in your community, volunteering a... 1 |
 In Arctic, Ancient Diseases Reanimate and Highways Melt as Temperatures Hit "Frenzy" of Records I don’t know how any intelligent person can read this article and still believe the Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) is a hoax. Yet, that is a fact. We all need to be doing whatever we can think of to break through this greatest of all cases of cognitive dissonance. And if anyone discovers a successful way of converting deniers they should post it here on OpEdNews for the benefit of us all. Read the article. 3 |
 Disastrous U.S. Trade Policy: A Primary Reason behind Bernie Sanders' Landslide Victory in Washington State Residents of Washington State recognize the difference between a good trade policy and a bad trade policy. A bad trade policy is still bad, even if you call it “free trade,” “nuanced trade” or “utilitarian.” The Trans-Pacific Partnership is neither free, nuanced nor utilitarian. It’s an extension of the failed NAFTA, CAFTA and Korea-U.S models. Sen. Bern... |
The Terror of Flint's Poisoned Water
Killing for dollars brought to America...Less than one month after the attacks of Sept. 11, a senior FBI
official, Ronald Dick, told the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, “Due to the vital importance of water to all life forms
... the FBI considers all threats to attack the water supply as serious
threats.” In 2003, a UPI article reported that an al-Qaida operative
“(does not ru... |
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