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POPSObama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore Key Players Cashing In On Chicago Climate Exchange
The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol. Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of “An Inconvenient Truth” travelled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste. Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. “Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day,” wrote EIR.
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POPS World Animal Day 2009 World Animal Day started in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention of ecologists. On this day, animal life in all its forms is celebrated, and special events are planned on locations all over the globe. 4 October was originally chosen for World Animal Day because it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint of animals and the environment. Numerous churches throughout the world observe the Sunday closest to 4 October with a Blessing for the Animals.
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POPSThe Rest of the Hopi Story - Hope Earlier, I referred to other Hopi who respected their culture still. This is one of those people and antoher side of the stroy of how we have helped to turn people on each other and their culture.
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POPSThe Other Ongoing World Shame: Darfur As the author indicates, when you have lots of "show," there is often very little "go." Take away all the glitter and false starts and Darfur is still one of the leading killing grounds in the world. Is Sudan's oil worth that much?
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POPSAntibiotic Resistance at Factory Farms More (way more at article website): Kellogg Schwab, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health, refers to a typical pig farm manure lagoon that he sampled. "There were 10 million E. coli per liter . Ten million. And you have a hundred million liters in some of those pits. So you can have trillions of bacteria present, of which 89 percent are resistant to drugs. That's a massive amount that in a rain event can contaminate the environment." One day, a Bloomberg School colleague down the hall from Silbergeld came back from a weekend on the Eastern Shore complaining about how disgusting she'd found having to drive behind a truck hauling chickens to a processing plant. They found that the air in the car and both surfaces showed increased levels of enterococci after they'd driven behind the chicken trucks. Graham had trapped the flies near poultry farms on the Eastern Shore and found resistant staph and enterococci on them.
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POPSNeed One? USB Cell Phone MP3/MP4 Battery Solar Panel Charger Eliminate the traditional need of charger, charge your MP3 at anytime anywhere during day time using solar energy even when the MP3 is at work A "must have" in today's hi-tech gadget world, save power and protect environment, keep you stay ahead of fashion Work for MP3 MP4 players or cell phones with 3.6V build-in rechargeable battery Solar battery: 0.4 w Output voltage: 5.1V For more info please visit the following site: http://www.1powershop.com/en/audio-multimedia/usb-cell-phone-mp3-mp4-solar-battery-panel-charger-b.html Save $2 Coupon code: 1powershop
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POPS“The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam” By Sher Zieve We are already observing Obama working feverishly to destroy capitalism. He and his willing minions in Congress--who now report ONLY to him and no longer to We-the-People--are passing anti-USA legislation each and every day; from new taxes being voted on and passed by the ruling majority in the dead of night to Cap and Trade (alternately known as both Cap and Tax and Cap and Con) which is designed by Obama and his team to raise electricity rates for families by at least 40%. On 17 January 2008, the dictator even admitted that his intent was to skyrocket electricity rates! How many really heard or actually listened to what he said? Note: The Obama-Con Cap and Trade program does NOT do anything to either help the environment or We-the-People. But it places LOTS of our tax money in the hands of Obama and Friends. Obama and his adherents in Congress are working fervently to force his soon to be US serfs into his Socio-fascist “universal” health care; health care that has . . . .
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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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POPSThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France
I know this is an old story, but like the plastic and trash we keep throwing away, it just won’t go away. Measurements show there is six times more plastic than plankton in this area. Plastic does not biodegrade; no microbe has yet evolved that can feed on it. Prolonged exposure to sunlight causes polymer chains to break down into smaller and smaller pieces, a process accelerated by physical friction, such as being blown across a beach or rolled by waves. Worldwide, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, plastic is killing a million seabirds a year, and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles. Bottle caps, pocket combs, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, cottonbud shafts, toothbrushes, toys, syringes and plastic shopping bags are routinely found in the stomachs of dead seabirds and turtles. Every single molecule of plastic that has ever been manufactured is still somewhere in the environment, and some 100 million tons of it are floating in the oceans.
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POPSwoman International woman's day 2009. What do we do when the scope of violence against women is so unimaginable, so extreme and enormous, that it is beyond our vision? Beyond our realm of thinking? How is it possible that we live in a world where one doctor has treated 25,000 victims of rape for mutilation and suffering? For those of us who are safe from the world of the Congo, who are unable to go there, to physically help the thousands of women who are victims of rape as a tactic of war, we read about it. We learn about it. We bear witness to it. So that we can help in other ways. So that we can stop it from ever happening in other places, in future wars. To make rape a tactic of war IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. ANYWHERE.
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POPS"The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love" Can Change the World
A once in a generation opportunity to revitalize the program we all love and respect: In 1961, JFK established the Peace Corps to promote world peace & friendship. More than 195,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 countries. Volunteers work in the following areas: education, youth outreach, community development; business development; agriculture, environment; health, HIV/AIDS & information technology Some of the "More Peace Corps" goals: * Need more robust training programs that teach volunteers how to install water pumps, put in solar panels, & set up health posts * Need creative partnerships with other international volunteer sending programs, micro-credit groups, & NGOs * Need to follow President Obama's challenge to all Americans to serve their communities, their country & the cause of peaceful development across the Globe * Need 16,000 Americans serving in 100 countries http://www.morepeacecorps.org http://www.peacecorps.gov
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POPS1944 Winter In Belgium: Rare Newsreel Video A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone. H/T Argghhh!
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