Easy prediction (given current developments): Get ready for more, (organized) citizen actions such as this↓; ref. the (2014) video below. Those represented below -- plus many more -- have not "gone away". Nor will they...



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Post-U.S. presidential election, 2016: Three items to (try to) keep front-and-center (article links below), if/when a U.S. administration generally hostile to the environment takes form. Off-site article links, no affiliation. New windows open:
http://time.com/4573414/climate-change-americas-cities/?


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-25/clean-energy-jobs-surpass-oil-drilling-for-first-time-in-u-s


http://www.lowcarbonusa.org/


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5/4/16, Fort McMurray, Alberta, CN. (No affiliation with posting org.)

More info. here (off-site link): https://twitter.com/hashtag/FortMcMurrayhttps://twitter.com/hashtag/FortMcMurray

..Off-site news story excerpt (linked): "...Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box. Fort McMurray is surrounded by wilderness in the heart of Canada's oil sands..."

--> More about this (off-site article link, new window opens): http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/science/global-warming-cited-as-wildfires-increase-in-fragile-boreal-forest.html?

More: (8/16 off-site article link) http://time.com/4456011/california-wildfires-natural-disasters/?

More: (10/16 off-site article link) http://time.com/4525178/climate-change-forest-fires/?

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5/16: Hey...way, way more people check in with Jimmy Kimmel than this tiny blog. So, pls. have a listen (if you can get past Sarah...(Unnecessary bad language near the end of the video)):







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Climate change is not 'theoretical'. Effects are already occurring, in the United States. Today:

(Off-site 9/3/16 article link. New window opens. No affiliation:)



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4/16 must-read: More fact than fiction...?

Off-site article link, new window opens: http://www.theonion.com/article/exxonmobil-ceo-relieved-it-finally-too-late-do-any-52732

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3/16: Wake-up call ...yet another. ((If such projections are bolstered via add'l research:) Kids! 'Let's play pack-up and move to higher ground' (someday).):

(Off-site 3/30/16 article link, new window opens)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html?

(3/31/16 editorial. Off-site link, no affiliation: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/the-danger-of-a-runaway-antarctica.html?)
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Update (warning: contains facts/inevitable facts): 2015 is Earth's hottest year on record (off-site news article link).
2011-2015 is the warmest five-year period recorded (off-site article link).)
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>>>>Oh, please: ..How can puny mankind's activities possibly alter the Earth's environment..??




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on a global scale?? --> (one off-site link:) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141118-nasa-video-carbon-dioxide-global-warming-climate-environment/


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10/2015: 'Surprise'...Exxon understood about climate change -- through their own research -- back in the 1970s; supported misinformation about the concept for years after. Off-site 10/26/15 article link:


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- "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." - Laurence J. Peter
- "It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes." - George Washington

- "97 percent of American scientists say that climate change is happening..." (link, new window)

- "Each of the last ten years features in the top 11 warmest years recorded in all [primary monitoring agency] datasets." (12/10 article link, table)

- "How hot was it? 2013 joins the top ten for temperatures..." (link)

- "... 'Flat Earth Society'? - Kerry slams climate change skeptics" (link)

- Risk management: "Even if it somehow could be determined that it is a coin flip -- 50/50 -- that 97% of climate scientists are (essentially) correct re climate change (link), don't present-day inhabitants (still) have the (moral) obligation to effectively address as much of the issue as is safely possible?
I.e.: Too great of a risk to future generations to ignore.. Or to paralyze with excessive deliberation." -- Anonymous



- "I'm not sure what the 'height of insanity' might be, but this seems a candidate: Modern, advanced societies ignoring - or deliberately distorting - principal findings of climate scientists -- who the same civilizations train and educate to become experts ..." (P.S. If it needs stating, we know what one of the 'rea$on$' (i.e., for denying) is...)
-- Anonymous





and,

- "...I have a better idea: do something, Congress. Do anything to help working Americans. Join the rest of the country. Join me, I'm looking forward to working with you...." --- President Barack Obama (7/2014)

9/2014: Also..."BP Plc Held Grossly Negligent for 2010 spill..."(article link). Appeals will be coming, but (if interested) you'll find a few older posts from a few years ago here, discussing the 'negligent ones' and certain attempts to deflect blame/responsibility.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Update: "An unprecedented outbreak of journalism..." (Updated)


(YT video link)

Source - including of the quotation shown above - (link): http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/19/1308038/-Pigs-Fly-Megyn-Kelly-slams-Cheney?

UPDATE: The video above has now been made unavailable.  Let's try this YT post (of the same interview):


(YT video link)

Related (off-site link, new window opens): http://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-say-iraq-war-wasnt-worth-the-costs-poll/

Re more rants from Dick.... (off-site link, new window): http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jun/24/dick-cheney/dick-cheney-says-president-obama-claimed-terrorism/

....Another 'beauty' from this august American leader -- expressly for the (dwindling) Rush Limbaugh crowd (a/k/a (semi-rational) haters).
Beginning to sound desperate (or a lttle unhinged), though articulating a central tenet of current 'Party of No'  reactionaries/obstructionists.      Exactly who is 'buying' this tripe:

(Story link, w/larger-screen video clip)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Friday, September 9, 2011

An indecorous Republican shill

Link to news article from the NY Daily News (opens new window):http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/09/09/2011-09-09_president_obamas_jobs_speech_gop_rep_jeff_landry_of_louisiana_holds_sign_drillin.html?


Jeff Landry: There's no 'gray' area here... His pathetic little sign was indecorous...and disrespectful. (Check out unscientific poll results in the above-ref. story.)  

Republicans would be yelling for someone's head if the other party pulled this 'crap' on them.


Favor the resourceful individualism of America's days of yore? Consider making a personal commitment to greater energy independence - both yours and the country's. Blunt the oil barons' grip upon today's largely bought-and sold Congress -- at the same time : Drive a fuel efficient vehicle. Encourage others to do so as well. Overall, you are helping yourself and your country. (And the world. Except OPEC.).

Drilling is not a panacea (eh, Mr. Landry?)..... We know that oil is a fungible, worldwide commodity, subject to market vicissitudes no matter where it is extracted from. (Also, two words: Deepwater Horizon.)

Link to one of ex-CIA director James Woolsey's cogent statements re U.S. energy security (new window): http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-06/politics/al.qaeda.energy_1_foreign-oil-bin-attack-oil-installations?_s=PM:POLITICS 


(Oil drilling platform, by Andrew Schmidt. This image is in the public domain.)


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Wild-eyed Bachmann: Newsmax.com's perfected unflattering shots

Link to Slate.com blogger's view re Newsweek magazine's laughably unflattering cover photo of Michele Bachmann: (link, new window)  http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/08/08/is_newsweek_s_michele_bachmann_cover_sexist_.html?GT1=38001


To this WWW user, it seems like about every third web page or so has a 'Newsmax.com' advertisement prominently displayed on it. (I know I'm not alone with this...) The conservative website appears to try its level best to portray Democratic leaders (usually) in a harshly unfavorable manner -- via its largely unobjective/fake polls, questions, etc. (on such ads).

Just two recent examples:






Of course much is in the "eye" of the beholder......But I believe many would acknowledge that neither of the newsmax.com photos above are (anywhere near) flattering
This conservative "news" org. (which is widely read - if briefly) has been liberally distributing such web ads. for several years ....

None of the (photo) antics are constructive.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

"Not one red cent of revenue": Nancy Pelosi's galvanizing speech

Of course, we must all reduce the deficit. But is it our best to say we are going to use the debate to reduce the deficit to destroy the public space? Look at their Appropriations bills they’re bringing before us, destroying the public space of clean air, clean water, food safety, the education of our children, the health, financial security of our seniors through Medicare and Medicaid. That’s what they are doing...."
and,
"...but not one red cent of revenue while we are saying kids should pay more for their student loans." (re Boehner bill, which was defeated - as expected by Mr. Boehner himself.)

- Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, House of Representatives floor speech (excerpts), July 30, 2011


Per the linked website: It may have been Ms. Pelosi's "finest hour". Link to the site, which includes video and text of the hard-hitting speech. ((Which apparently was) time-limited via rules imposed by the Republican majority.) (Opens a new window:) http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pelosi-speaks-on-debt-ceiling-bills-possibly-her-finest-hour-video/politics/2011/08/01/24712


Newly-minted deficit "hawks": Where were you from 2000 through 2008? Answer: Many were voting for/supporting deficit-increasing spending measures/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy... throughout the Bush administration. (Including the expensive, charge-in-the-wrong-direction Iraq war.)












 Most Americans (link) want common sense and real compromise in Washington.

 
Somebody needed to say it....Despite what is repeatedly broadcast from a strident minority, Ms. Pelosi speaks for many....

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

This is what oligarchy looks like: Koch-Tea Party war on workers

 Link to 2/23/11 Jason Linkins (Huffington Post) report about Wisconsin Tea Party dupe Scott Walker unwittingly revealing "his" strategies to undermine public employee unions, to Buffalo Beast editor Ian Murphy. Who successfully reached (call dodger) Walker by posing via a Skype call as "conservative" billionaire (read: Tea Party agenda major supporter/funder) David Koch.  (The Exec.VP of Koch Industries, second largest privately-held company in America.  No public shareholders to answer to...  "...(O)ver my dead body" (re ever offering public shares), one of the Koch brothers is attributed to have said.))


Link, including audio/partial transcript of The Beast's call (opens in a new window) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/scott-walker-buffalo-beast-phone-prank_n_827058.html 

If it wasn't already painfully clear before the call, make no mistake: Koch - and his brother Charles - are Scott Walker's bosses....bankrollers....prime constituents...masters....divine leaders.... -- you name it.

Thanks for that, Tea Party chumps/voters. The individuals mentioned above - and those like them - care about one exclusive group: Obscenely compensated CEO money men, and other privileged, wealthy clients .
Not you. Not me. Not most Americans....



(screen cap, also a link to the website ...."The World's Only Website")


 

New York Times Nobel-winning columnist Paul Krugman had just previously written about the same general subject here (link to 2/20/11 article):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21krugman.html?


Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine: "Governors and others in state houses across this country on the Republican side have decided what they want to do is wage a war against their own employees," Kaine said (Saturday night). "Against public employees who are teaching our kids, who are caring for our parents in nursing homes, who are patrolling our neighborhoods." 

Update: "America's Finest News Source" (the Onion) gets this story right (link to 2/24/11 article): http://www.theonion.com/articles/governor-walker-should-be-flogged-for-his-inabilit,19309/


(If needed:)

ol·i·gar·chy  –noun

1.
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.


2.
a state or organization so ruled.
 
oligarchy. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy (accessed: February 23, 2011).

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

"Can OPEC come to the rescue?" Pathetic...

Screen graphic recently seen on CNBC as their anchors push the panic button over Libya's oil disruptions:

"Can OPEC come to the rescue?"

Just go ahead and add (to that) : "So spoiled Americans (many) can still gas up their humongous SUVs and pickups, the vast majority of which are not regularly used for their (alleged) utilitarian purpose(s)." 
(Most are poseur-mobiles, in other words....)


OPEC/terrorist oil-dependent America is weak and vulnerable. And even if the U.S. extracts more of its own oil, it will still be subject to repeated shocks/cartel whims in the global oil market.

Author: IFCAR
"I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide."


I didn't say this, the former director of the CIA did: "I have a bumper sticker on the back of my Prius that reads, 'Bin Laden hates this car.'"

If we want to beat Bin Laden and oil-owning regimes (generally) hostile to the U.S., it's our patriotic duty to drive fuel-efficient vehicles. To better insulate, and wean (convert) our houses from heating oil....ETC.



Monday, February 21, 2011

Read: BP's oil is not gone from the Gulf

The giant oil company would like you to think otherwise (link), but...

Link to 2/19/11 AP story by Seth Borenstein: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110220/ap_on_sc/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers




Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Chandeleur Islands LA
Author: Jeffrey Warren, Grass Roots Mapping project.
Source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4590976462/sizes/l/in/set-72157623910039211/