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POPSWhy Socialists Pursue Socialism to the Ends of the Earth
. . . and offers the only internally consistent explanation for their historic obsession with divisive policy. From their early support of Hitler to their central role in the current financial crisis, the Left’s contribution to domestic and foreign policy at federal, state and local levels can only be described as wantonly destructive. Their takeover of schools and popular culture has been equally toxic. Their environmental radicalism has spawned the energy crisis, while offering no viable alternatives. It defies logic. But there is logic, a deadly logic, and in the '60’s, two radicals gave it a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. As explained in the prior article in this series, the goal was to create a groundswell of demands for public services to overwhelm government, create crisis and usher in a widespread call for fundamental economic reform at the federal level, with socialism the ultimate goal. Cloward and Piven focused on welfare, voting,
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POPSBritain facing blackouts for first time since 1970's Recipe for disaster: liberals and environmental whackos in charge of a government. Just think - wouldn't it be great if China and Russia had such leaders? We could watch as they strangle themselves. (Wake up - that is how they are laughing at us!) VOTE THE BUMS OUT IN 2010 !!!!!
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POPSFire threat empties Athens suburb Hundreds of firefighters and soldiers - backed by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft dropping water - are battling the fires but they are too numerous and widespread to contain. "The situation is tragic. Fires are out of control on many fronts," said a regional Athens governor, Yiannis Sgouros. more than 30,000 acres of land had been burnt in what he described as "an ecological disaster". Many residents of the threatened towns and suburbs have fled by car, motorbike and on foot, but others have stayed behind to try to defend their homes. Two children's hospitals, a summer camp and a psychiatric clinic have been evacuated.
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POPSIraq in throes of environmental catastrophe, experts say Decades of war and mismanagement, compounded by two years of drought, are wreaking havoc on Iraq's ecosystem, drying up riverbeds and marshes, turning arable land into desert, killing trees and plants, and generally transforming what was once the region's most fertile area into a wasteland. Falling agricultural production means that Iraq, once a food exporter, will this year have to import nearly 80% of its food, spending money that is urgently needed for reconstruction projects.
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POPSObama's long six months
Obama sold the country a false prospectus of easy, obvious, and almost painless change. The usual six honeymoon months have elapsed, and the country is nearly through rejoicing at the consolation that they have a president whom foreigners are unlikely to throw shoes at, and who speaks in sentences. But his own Environmental Protection Agency director acknowledges that his cap-and-trade bill will have no effect on the climate, and it will neither raise revenue nor reduce carbon use. It must be replaced with a straight carbon tax of bearable impact coupled with sensible conservation, and alternate-energy-source and oil-exploration incentives. The bill that limped through the House of Representatives was a Rube Goldberg contraption of Al Gore myths and Congressional vote-buying boondoggles. Its adoption would be a disaster. The president’s claim of putting millions of Americans to work making wind-mills and solar panels is a fable that extends the frontiers of quixotry.
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POPSImagine a World Without Fish Quotes from the Makers of the Film We must stop thinking of our oceans as a food factory and realize that they thrive as a huge and complex marine environment. We must act now to protect the sea from rampant overfishing so that there will be fish in the sea for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. -- Charles Clover, the book's author Overfishing is the great environmental disaster that people haven't heard about." A recent global conference about bluefin tuna stocks saw almost no media coverage in the U.S. We hope this film really sounds the alarm. We can fix this problem starting right now. -- Producer George Duffield Reading the book The End of the Line changed my life and what I eat. I hope the film will do the same for others. -- Producer Claire Lewis
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POPSExxon Oil Spill Ordered to Pay--Again This Environmental Disaster Saga has been going on for 2 decades. With litigators, the art of the lawsuit is to outlive your opponents. Since the oil spill, families have had children, the children in turn have grown to adults and gone on to college, joined the military and had children of their own. Kind of strikes an angry cord when a jury awards damages, then a judge is simply asked by the defendants lawyers to set aside the verdict or reduce the amount of the award. And, magic, all is good with the world for the defendant.
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POPSBiofuels Bad for the Environment (Feb 08) The last line is especially noteworthy: we know less than we think we do about these matters. We therefore risk unintended consequences that could make things worse rather than better.
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POPSDisaster looms with rising sea levels: islands Major emitters are pushing for greenhouse gas emissions cuts that are too low to prevent devastating sea rises, representatives said at the World Ocean Conference in Indonesia's Manado city. The five-day conference has attracted hundreds of officials and experts from 70 countries and is being billed as a prelude to December talks on a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol.
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POPSAction Alert: Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon
Dear Mr. Dato Ahmad Tarmizi Alias, I am writing to vigorously oppose the Malaysian government's intent, through its Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) government agency, to profit from the clearfelling of the Brazilian Amazon's ancient biodiversity rich rainforests to establish toxic oil palm plantation monocultures. We are protesting FELDA's plans to develop with local partner Braspalma an oil-palm plantation project located in Manaus and Tefe, Brazil -- the heart of the Amazon. Malaysian tax-payer dollars are to be used to turn huge portions of the Amazon from a biodiverse, carbon rich paradise into a big lifeless, toxic monoculture and environmental disaster. Please ensure this project's approval is immediately withdrawn. Your government's long-time and continuing actions in support of industrial oil palm and logging in primary rainforests worldwide are having devastating consequences for communities, local soil and water, biodiversity and ecosystems,
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POPSOverfishing to Wipe out Bluefin Tuna in 3 Years: WWF
Bad news for tuna...I was a tuna fisherman in Hawaii in the '70s-80s and saw the fishery depleted by the Japanese longliners and trawlers.... "Mediterranean (Atlantic) bluefin tuna is collapsing as we speak and yet the fishery will kick off again tomorrow for business as usual. It is absurd and inexcusable to open a fishing season when stocks of the target species are collapsing," added Tudela. Environmental groups condemned an agreement signed in November by states setting bluefin quotas -- a body dominated by EU members. The groups called it "a disaster" and "a disgrace," saying the states again chose to ignore their own scientists and set quotas 47 percent higher than recommended. Illegal fishing is also rife for the bluefin, the dried, dark red meat of which once fed Roman armies on the march. Growing numbers of restaurants and retailers including Carrefour's Italian supermarkets are boycotting it. WWF said that analysis of official data showed the average size of matu
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POPSWind power is a complete disaster The Ontario Power Authority advises that wind producers will be paid 13.5¢/kwh (more than twice what consumers are currently paying), even without accounting for the additional costs of interconnection, transmission and back-up generation. As the European experience confirms, this will inevitably lead to a dramatic increase in electricity costs with consequent detrimental effects on business and employment. From this perspective, the government’s promise of 55,000 new jobs is a cruel delusion. A recent detailed analysis (focusing mainly on Spain) finds that for every job created by state-funded support of renewables, particularly wind energy, 2.2 jobs are lost. Each wind industry job created cost almost $2-million in subsidies.
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POPSBush era regulation, dump mine waste in pristine lakes, goes before Supreme Court
The action deepened a fracture line between environmentalists and industry. Moreover, it casts a spotlight on two federal regulators: the US Army Corps of Engineers, which gave Coeur the green light, and the US Environmental Protection Agency, which is accused of violating its own standards. Environmental attorney Tom Waldo with the firm Earthjustice says that the impetus for the Clean Water Act was a legacy of contamination and public health concerns caused by industrial companies, municipalities, and agriculture historically treating waterways as convenient, expendable repositories for waste. He points to a benchmark ruling during the 1970s against the Reserve Mining Co. in Minnesota, which disposed of taconite tailings, laden with asbestos, into Lake Superior from its processing facility, contaminating drinking water. In the US West, water quality in an estimated 40 percent of rivers has been impaired by historic mining sites long abandoned.
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POPS Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama decided not to sign corporate sponsors to help pay the projected $40 million cost of the official events around the Jan. 20 swearing in. So many marketers are working other avenues to get their brands before the millions of people who will attend the festivities or watch on TV. Among them are such well-known names as Pepsi, Ikea, T.G.I. Friday’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. From the airwaves to the streets of Washington, D.C., big-name marketers are trying to find ways to ride Inauguration Day enthusiasm. Which raises the question of when “He’s The Real Thing” is going to morph into ”Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.” MSNBC and other news outlets are looking to capitalize on the heightened interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama, as watch parties are being planned in cities across the nation.
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POPSFILTHY COAL- SPILL WORSE THAN EXXON VALDEZ As the story is being ignored by the main media, the spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant turns out to be worse than the Exxon Valdez Spill, which is still not cleaned up. So don't hold your breath, or do hold your breath....
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POPS"Cheer up . ." continues: Born in America, I grew up in Britain, where positivity and optimism have long been viewed with suspicion, as naïve or even dangerous, the preserve of hopeless, slightly deluded types – such as President Jimmy Carter or Neville Chamberlain, with his famous piece of paper promising peace from Hitler.
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POPSEnvironmental activists detained by police at ash spill site These guys don’t deny they were on a section of road blocked off from the public. With the past history of the public being lied to about the severity of environmental disasters you cannot fault them for taking matters into their own hands. I’m looking forward to hearing the results of the water samples they took. TVA says the water sampling they took shows no toxicity, but how can toxic-laden coal ash not affect the drinking water? There were many fish found dead along the banks of the river but that could be explained by the force of the initial onslaught of water from the dam-break causing a ‘tidal-wave-like’ surge that washed the fish onto shore.
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