Land Opened for Coal Mining Destruction

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Wyoming is a beautiful state.  Or, it used to be.  Republican energy policies have turned parts of it into scenes like this.  Now Democrats are doing the same thing.  Is there anyone left in American who will stand up to the fossil fuel industries that seem determined to destroy the very land of this country? The article quoted below blames everything on Ken Salazar, but these are Obama’s energy and environmental policies.  The headlines read, “Salazar opens up 750 million tons of coal to mining leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin” . . . . “The four coal leases next to existing strip mines in the Powder River Basin — the largest coal-producing region in the United States — total 758 million tons and will take between 10 and 20 years to mine.”  These are the policies of the Obama administration, not Ken Salazar, who is not the President. (Do people really think Ken Salazar has the power to do something like this without Obama’s direction and approval?) Burning all this coal, after the land is destroyed obtaining it, will doom us to a certain future of ever-increasing higher temperatures associated with climate change. This is the same as dooming [...]

Report: Clean Air Act Saves Millions of Lives, Trillions of Dollars

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Attacks on EPA Threaten Health of American Families According to their press release:   The Clean Air Act will have saved Americans roughly $2 trillion by 2020 and prevented as many as 230,000 premature American deaths in that year alone due to asthma, heart disease, and other illnesses caused by air pollution, according to a new report released today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report comes as the EPA and Administrator Lisa Jackson faces increasing attack from the oil and coal industries and their allies for the agency’s role in protecting Americans from air and water pollution.  The report focuses on the future up to 2020.  And also from the report, this is just one of many benefits of the Clean Air Act: “Based on the scenarios analyzed in this study, the costs of public and private efforts to meet 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment requirements rise throughout the 1990 to 2020 period of the study, and are expected to reach an annual value of about $65 billion by 2020.1″ Statement of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune: “Every single American benefits from clean air. The Clean Air Act has saved millions of Americans from heart attacks, asthma, [...]

American Soldiers Waking Up About War

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With the start of yet another war in the Middle East, this video is even more important than when it was made (February 2011). American Presidents, Democrat or Republican, are devoted to war. The only way these wars of opportunity and profit will end is when the soldiers say no and stop participating. Congress is not even involved anymore. “They merely have to sell the war.” Can you imagine going to jail for not wanting to kill people? It’s happening right now in our military. The only good reason for war is direct self-defense. Soldiers have to stop being willing to kill and be killed for no good reason. Last Saturday, March 19th, 113 people were arrested outside the White House, protesting the wars we are engaged in and the treatment of Bradley Manning. “The protesters were arrested af­ter ignor­ing or­ders to move away from the gates of the White House. The demonstrators cheered loudly as Daniel Ellsberg, the for­mer military an­a­lyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon’s secret history of the Vietnam War that was lat­er pub­lished in major newspapers, was arrested and led away by po­lice. The demonstration merged var­ied causes, including protesters de­manding a U.S. military with­draw­al [...]

Another Oil Leak in the Gulf?

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It’s possible there is another oil leak in the Gulf, though it’s already being denied.  What we know for sure is that oil drilling in the Gulf remains dangerous to human and wildlife health.  A separately-reported  4-6 hour oil leak did happen last week during the plugging of an oil well — something authorities seem to believe is OK. “The Wall Street Journal and several other sources are reporting that the Coast Guard is investigating a 100-mile sheen of a substance that may be oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Reports began to come in on Saturday morning of a rainbow slick that began off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana and extended far out to sea. Crews have been have been sent to the area to assess the situation, which is unfolding about twenty miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon, the well that exploded last April and set in motion a disastrous chain of events whose full impact has yet to be measured. A report from Business Insider released after 10:00pm EDT on Saturday indicated that the well involved might be the Matterhorn Seastar, but other sources state that it is too early [...]

Here We Go Again

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Another year, another random war. Soon after we all were told that the U.S. is flat broke and can’t even afford heating assistance for the poor, the U.S. gets involved in yet another expensive war. How many millions is this costing the U.S. and all the countries involved (most if not all who claim to be having severe financial problems) and how many lives will be lost? We always seem to have money for bombers and bombs, as though those things take precedence over everything else. This time around, I also noticed that most media anchors and even the reporters were heavily pushing for a war to start. CNN International was the worst perpetrator of a constant push for war before the bombing began. (Of course, they stand to profit from their coverage of a new war, since many people are “bored” with the old ones.) Shock and Awe 2: US, France and Britain Pound Libya   France fired the first shots in the new war with Libya, but the Obama Administration was close behind, with US warships firing upwards of 120 Tomahawk missiles at targets inside Libya. The strikes came largely overnight, and exactly what they hit is largely [...]

Politicians Dooming Us to Dirty Coal

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With their insistence (like in the video below) on ending the use of nuclear power, some Democrats are unwittingly dooming us to a future of deadly coal use.  Coal plants belch toxic clouds of chemicals, mercury and CO2 into the air and cause serious public health concerns.   Rep. Markey (who is usually right on other environmental issues) should know better than to argue against nuclear power, because he knows the threat of climate change. No one is going to give up using coal unless there is a replacement that can immediately replace it with the same amount of power generation.   Coal usage is greatly exacerbating climate change, and the only thing that can replace coal in the foreseeable future is nuclear power. But Rep. Markey has another viewpoint. From Think Progress: The nuclear disaster in Japan continues to deepen the sense of devastation from one of the worst tsunamis in history. Despite a long history of concern over the safety of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, nuclear power boosters like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) now claim the ongoing meltdown is something “no one has ever really anticipated outside of science fiction movies.” Fueled by intense lobbying from the nuclear industry, [...]

‘Futurism: An Art/Life Movement’ screens in Montreal Festival

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Screening at the FIFA Festival (The International Festival of Films on Art)
March 23 + 25, 2011
Montreal

Futurism: An Art/Life Movement

Based on exhaustive research in cooperation with his family, this docudrama portrays the revolutionary views of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), the leading advocate of Futurism.

Futurism is an intellectual and artistic movement. Created in Italy in 1909, Futurism advocates for a new aesthetic based on progress, machines and speed.

The narrative voice of Marinetti himself conveys the language of this movement, which sought to encompass all forms of creativity.

The film combines historical re-enactments, drama and action, interviews with Italian and international scholars and critics, 3D computer graphics and archival footage. Don’t miss this film. The future is now.

Luca Verdone / Italy, France / 2010 / Colour / 52 min / Italian with English subtitles

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Android May Be the Greatest Legal Destruction of Wealth in History [Android]

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Bill Gurley thinks that Android is an unstoppable freight train that will prevail against all its rivals. For Google, Android is not even a product with a business plan. It's just a weapon at the service of their master domination strategy, a way to destroy any potential threats that may eventually kill their search monster. This is how they are doing it and the potential consequences. More »