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POPSChevron: Will You Join Us? Don’t Be Stupid
It’s time to recognize Chevron for the hypocritical, phony, band-wagon-jumping, contemptible, lying, bastards they are. The con game they are manufacturing against America’s common sense to make us believe they care about what is happening to the environment and us while providing a lifeline for the oppressive and murderous Burmese regime is disgraceful. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071002_chevrons_pipeline_is_the_burmese_regimes_lifeline/ They orchestrated a coup against the US House of Rep last year in the wake of the juntas crackdown on it’s citizens by arguing that if they didn’t maintain access to Burma’s rich gas fields then someone else will. And our fool reps, with dollar signs in their eyes instead of compassion in their hearts, bought it. This has only emboldened Chevron to pull that same wool over the publics eyes so they can stay in a business that enslaves indigents and props up a Fascist government all in the name of profit. Please, don't support the
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POPSPelosi, pope meet in Rome She considers herself an “ardent” catholic? The pope does not. Neither do I. She can call herself a part-time practicing catholic, but that’s it. There are many people who consider themselves “ardent” believers in one religion or another. But if you get to pick and choose which of the foundations of a religion best suits your own viewpoint then you are indeed NOT an “ardent” follower. I don’t understand how she can stand in front of the highest (earth bound) symbol of her religion and say she is 100% catholic and not follow everything he stands for. I also don’t understand why, in this time of economic stress, she gets to take an entourage to Italy, using public money to fund the trip (along with her husband) of an eight day visit to the Italian Republic. What is the purpose of this visit? And why isn’t the media outraged? Can someone shed some light on this? It seems to me this is a personal vacation with a little ‘business’ so she can write the expenses off.
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POPSThe Republican Party Must Die More right-wing crazy talk: That you can pay down the deficit by cutting taxes, and that the God of Love who embraced lepers and prostitutes is really the God of Gay-Bashing. It's almost hilarious the things these guys come up with. John McCain was supposed to be the sane one, but he has now embraced the fringy kookiness that, over the last two decades, has become part of the DNA of the Republican party. They'll do everything they can to undercut the confidence essential to a recovery while attacking the patriotism of their opponents. The Republicans are witch-hunting again. They're on a crusade for purity. The Katrina Party must be crushed. For the good of the country, for the good of the Republicans themselves, it must die to be born again. And, really, these politicians shouldn't come back until they come up with at least one new idea about how to govern, because hearkening back to the grand old days of small government and lone cowpokes just ain't gonna to cut it anymore.
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POPSProgress Toward Addressing Climate Change Fails Again Are we really committed to combating climate change? We talk a great game. We seem to recognize that something must be done. But when it comes right down to it, there is very little action. The biggest polluters are of course industrialized nations, such as China, India, America, and Japan, who raise the loudest objections to pay more into the fund and consistently fail to reach agreements to make deeper emissions cuts. Understandably, developing nations are disappointed at their position and stubbornness. Everyone is paving a road of good intentions, but good intentions never get anything done. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions was never expected to be cheap or easy. It requires drastic changes in lifestyles for all of us, rich and poor alike. The time has come to actually commit to a plan. Industrialized nations, being the biggest polluters should bear the largest financial burden to ease the rest of world of their disproportionate suffering.
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POPSBiogas offers benefit for transport & environment Unlike wind, solar or hydrogen, biogas capture has widely been seen as too small-scale for use in industrial-scale heat or electricity generation. As a transportation fuel, however, biogas has growing support. France, Sweden, Germany, Austria and India are all investing in methods of turning landfill gas into a useable alternative to fossil fuels. France has been running a biomethane-powered bus since 1994 and is planning an entirely clean public transportation system by 2011. 35% of food production in Japan and Britain, and 50% in the U.S. ends up as rotting garbage. This provides a plentiful supply of biogas and therefore a much better source than using food crops to power motor vehicles.
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POPSVegetarian diet reduces carbon footprint Gidon Eshel, a Bard Center fellow at Bard College in upstate New York, said his studies show that the average American diet each year requires the production of greenhouse gases equivalent to an extra ton and a half of carbon dioxide compared with a strictly vegetarian diet. "If you simply cut down from two burgers a week to one, you've already made a substantial difference," Eshel said. Cutting down on dairy products will also have an effect.
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POPSLet's Pay Detroit to bring their gas sipping cars home to the U.S. Great idea! The Big 3 have been making fuel efficient cars for Europe for years, why not bring them here? Detroit needs money, and we need efficient vehicles. Let’s make a deal: We taxpayers will provide the funding to retool their factories to build just the specific models that are in the Common Good. We’ll fund retooling to build any models that help solve the climate crisis by getting better than 50 mpg, right now. It’s a win-win.
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POPSUS global dominance 'set to wane' Get ready for a bumpy ride. We are likely to see conflicts revolving around trade, investments and technological innovation and acquisition, as well as resources which could lead to a 19th Century-like scenario of arms races, territorial expansion and military rivalries. Most likely 'trigger-spots' would be the collapse of governments in Africa and South Asia, and the rise of organised crime in Eastern and Central Europe. Most troublesome is increasing danger concerning nuclear weapons, as "rogue states" and militant groups gain greater access to them. Let's hope our world leaders will will address these dire warnings with level-headed action.
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