- WARREN: VIAGRA FOR THE LEFT’S (AND CLIMATE ACTIVISTS’) POLITICAL IMP...OTENCE That’s the theme of my new OpEdNews article, which makes my full-blown case for why the political Left (and climate activists) would be fools not to build a movement pushing for a Warren candidacy. Simply put, for the Left, a Warren candidacy is about MUCH more than the merits (and admitted shortcomings) of Elizabeth Warren. Warren potentially bridges the era when Democrats prioritized identity politics to a new one where they return to their New Deal economic “bread and butter.” As the first woman president, she’d fulfill the long-overdue, deeply desirable “identity” aim of electing a woman to our nation’s highest office. And she’d thereby stop “Trojan horse” Hillary Clinton from EXPLOITING that worthy goal just to hand us over to her reactionary, climate-unfriendly policies. Like fracking—of which she’s the foremost Democrat cheerleader--Hillary herself, representing NOTHING progressive, would be a “bridge to nowhere.” Beyond her personal merits, Warren’s championship of Main Street over Wall Street GUARANTEES she’ll be a “bridge to somewhere” for the Left. Warren and Marx might seem very strange bedfellows, but if we trust in Marx’s potent thesis that economics is the key to everything, Warren, by taking up the cudgels against capital, is spreading a deeply SUBVERSIVE message not even she can control. In this way, Warren is a long-awaited wedge into political power for the Left, potentially our key to (peaceful) “permanent revolution”—if we’re smart enough to push for her election. Here’s the article link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Leftists-Awake-Warren-s-by-Patrick-Walker-Class_Climate_Economic_Exploitation-141201-501.html See More
- Thanks for your efforts to defend my freedom. After contacting our ...hundreds of federal candidates, I am corresponding with our thousand or so other candidates—hoping some will move to fill our national ranks. We have told our politicians that they cannot take our books, guns nor liquors . . . now we just need an amendment saying they cannot take our money. 1. How can a government operate without taxation? Before people unite to form something, such as a marriage or corporation, they usually create an image of what their relationship will be like. If this image differs greatly from what they experience, they usually separate. Problems may arise if any property was created during their union, such as a house or factory. Whatever caused their separation also may cause disagreements in dividing their united property. Ingeniously, many people solve this problem by writing a contract before they get together, stating how any property should be divided. Problems may still exist if people do not honor their contracts. To solve this, governments step in and divide any disputed property. If governments would charge for this valuable service, they could make the money to operate—without taxation. When people draw up a contract, they could purchase a contract insurance policy from their government. This would insure that all the partners would get what they deserve from their relationship. If someone did not follow the terms of the agreement, the government would have permission to distribute any common property according to the contract. Of course, no one would have to buy this insurance. People should be free to resolve any disagreements by talking with their partners. But if partners began taking from each other, this would be robbery, and the government should stop them. All uninsured partners would lose the use of their common property if they could not agree with each other. Today, most people buy fire and medical insurance to protect them against a major loss. Most people would buy contract insurance for the same reason. With all the contracts that are signed each day, our government could earn the money to maintain the best court, military, police and prison system in the world. This would protect all the people in our nation—without robbing us to do it. With this system, for the first time in history, people could live in peace. Our government would continue to defend each person's home and business against criminals. The big improvement would be that the no-tax restriction added to our constitution would defend each person's property against our government. With the elimination of robbery in our nation, we would find that we could satisfy all our other needs with much less effort. When people can keep what they earn, it does not take long for them to trade with each other and acquire what they need to live well. Peace and prosperity are possible for those who are willing to think about how to achieve them. www.LP4.org See More
- "It’s clear that this issue is only going to get bigger, and the cli...mate test for politicians more real." says Cam Cameron Fenton http://bit.ly/1rj76ka BoomerWarrior See More
Two environmental groups have filed a "motion to intervene" in the lawsuits against Denton, TX's citizen-led fracking ban. http://bit.ly/1AoIZ3x
A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre found that 20.6 million people were displaced by extreme weather events in 2013, almost three times as many as those fleeing current conflicts.
Reagan's Secretary of State is calling on his fellow Republicans to quit denying climate science.
This conference puts the #EPA directly in the American Legislative Exchange Council's crosshairs.
A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry's slow expansion into nearly every continent: bit.ly/1FYLoEZ
"Activists don't occupy a logging company's offices, or lie down in front of a coal train, or march in the streets of New York for money. They do it because they genuinely believe in standing up for their principles and what they believe is right for the human race and the planet."
Major development in the Denton, Texas fracking ban lawsuits today filed against the city by the oil and gas industry. Read about it on DeSmogBlog!
DeSmogBlog shared Post Carbon Institute's photo.
The oil and gas industry doesn't want you to sign up for Post Carbon Institute's briefing on the "big fracking lie."
See the report that the oil and gas industry **doesn't want you to find out about: http://bit.ly/drillingdeeper**
LEARN MORE on December 9th at 5:00 pm PST: http://bit.ly/shalebriefing
"What we saw in 2014 is consistent with what we expect from a changing climate. Record-breaking heat combined with torrential rainfall and floods destroyed livelihoods and ruined lives."
By assuming from the word go that the company is right and that activists are only in it for the money, Simonetti sets up a path that ends in ruin for both his client and for the environmental advocates who want to see positive change.
Drought in U.S. and Brazil Linked to Hottest Year Ever: bloom.bg/1yg2jlm (Bloomberg News)
"Those activities have caused conditions that are subversive of public order and constitute an obstruction of public rights of the community as a whole. Such conditions include, but are not limited to, noise, increased heavy truck traffic, liquid spills, vibrations and other offensive results of the hydraulic fracturing process that have affected the entire Denton Community. Those conditions, all of which are generated by hydraulic fracturing, constitute a public nuisance."
Founding Father of Fracking Boom Is Crying the Blues: bit.ly/1vlsWyi via EcoWatch
Get out while the gettin's good.
"A growing minority of investors and regulators are probing the possibility that untapped deposits of oil, gas and coal -- valued at trillions of dollars globally -- could become stranded assets as governments adopt stricter climate change policies."
World Resources Institute and The Guardian have built a really great interactive carbon emissions tracker.
"A West Antarctic ice sheet that is roughly the size of Texas is losing the amount of ice equivalent to Mount Everest every two years, representing a melt rate that has tripled over the last decade, according to new research to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Friday." - Think Progress/Climate Progress
Coal Giant Peabody Energy Denies Social Media Poverty Campaign Is Bogus: bit.ly/1HXIiTM
DeSmogBlog shared 350.org's photo.
Huge.
Where are the jobs in Canada?
Not in the economically troubled tar sands. Instead, clean energy is leading the way.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/green-energy-jobs-canada-oil…
A friendly reminder for delegates in Lima from Oil Change International.
Why are we still spending billions looking for coal, oil, and gas we can't afford to burn? Share this image to let government delegates know it's time to #StopFundingFossils!
“It is a sign the project is in danger... Over 70 percent of Quebecers don’t want Energy East to be built.”
DeSmogBlog shared their photo.
Curious about Walmart's progress in meeting its 100% renewable commitment?
Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.
Report finds 1,069 kilograms of oilsands toxins from tailings are released into the air each year. http://bit.ly/1w2TKJY
Aikens pulls a tattered photocopy of a ten cent check from his wallet, emblazoned with the logo of a division of Chesapeake Energy. It's the royalty check for the gas produced on his 359 acre farm, after post-production expenses were deducted from the check.
Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.
Exhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the project in Hangzhou Bay, located near Shanghai.
"According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the global average temperature over land and ocean from January to October was the hottest since records began in 1880."
In addition to the industry wanting you to believe that they only want to lift the crude oil export ban because they care so much about the U.S. consumer, they also want you to believe this will have no impact on the environment.
The New York Times made these illustrations to show what it would look like if all of North Dakota's oil wells were above ground. It's insane.
Diplomats are calling these negotiations “the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming," according to The Guardian, with the US and China’s commitment to work together on carbon pollution bringing fresh momentum.
Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects.
Walmart is one of the heaviest users of coal-fired electricity in the US, resulting in 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution produced every year by the mega chain’s operations.
Report cites human rights liabilities for the British government if fracking is to commence commercially across the UK
"The implications for health effects are just enormous."
Climate denial was imported from the United States to Britain by a free market idealist employed by the billionaire oil baron Charles Koch.
The release of the documents brought TransCanada under fire for using dirty public relations tricks to manipulate public opinion and divide communities.