U.S. Is Seen as Laggard as Russia Asserts Itself in Warming Arctic

U.S. Is Seen as Laggard as Russia Asserts Itself in Warming Arctic

Aug 30th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Sources: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, IBRU at Durham University, Bordermap Consulting, KlimaCampus Integrated Climate Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey: By The New York Times

By STEVEN LEE MYERSAUG. 29, 2015

ABOARD COAST GUARD CUTTER ALEX HALEY, in the Chukchi Sea — With warming seas creating new opportunities at the top of the world, nations are scrambling over the Arctic — its territorial waters, transit routes and especially its natural resources — in a rivalry some already call a new Cold War.

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Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Gas · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Russia

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Obama: Climate change threatens to ‘wipe out’ American towns

Obama: Climate change threatens to ‘wipe out’ American towns

Aug 30th, 2015 

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By BARBARA BOLAND • 8/29/15 

President Obama redirected attention from his decision to allow Shell to drill a well off the Alaskan coast to the “imminent danger” of climate change in his weekly address Saturday. Ahead of a three-day tour of Alaska, Obama said the northern state’s melting glaciers, swift shoreline erosion and rising sea levels threaten to “swallow one island community.”

“Think about that,” Obama said. “If another country threatened to wipe out an American town, we’d do everything in our power to protect ourselves. Climate change poses the same threat, right now.”

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Why Bernie Is Best on Women’s Issues

Why Bernie Is Best on Women’s Issues Heather Gautney: Bernie has long understood that women’s struggles can’t be compartmentalized into issue silos. That’s why he’s long eschewed counterfeit gestures of “gender diversity”—in favor of genuine social equality.READ MORE shared from

SUNDAY, 30 AUGUST 2015 Why Bernie Is Best on Women’s Issues Heather Gautney: Bernie has long understood that women’s struggles can’t be compartmentalized into issue silos. That’s why he’s long eschewed counterfeit gestures of “gender diversity”—in favor of genuine social equality. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend The Id(iots) Emerge Kathleen Wallace: In the GOP campaign, it’s as if the one with the orange fluff substance on his head is encouraging the id of the uneducated to ooze out. READ HERE What Would Chief Hole in the Day Do? Georgianne Nienaber:As a member of the white community and also someone who has worked very hard and with conviction to support Native American treaty rights, I am concerned that much accumulated goodwill could be erased. READ MORE Too Dreadful for Words Tom Degan: The murdered journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, were focusing on their jobs. They were ambushed. They were doomed. They never had a chance. READ MORE Why Bernie Is Best on Women’s Issues Peace Activists Press Ted Lieu on Iran Deal Marcy Winograd: In sweltering 90 degree heat, pro-Iran deal supporters delivered petitions at Congressman Ted Lieu's LA office this week to urge the "undecided" lawmaker to support the agreement. READ HERE

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Omniprime to file Motion for Preventive Suspension against BOC Lina at the Ombudsman on 1 Sep 2015 at 1:30 pm

Omniprime to file Motion for Preventive Suspension against BOC Lina at the Ombudsman on 1 Sep 2015 at 1:30 pm by harryroque Press Release References:  Atty. H. Harry L. Roque Jr. 09175398096 and Atty. Joel R. Butuyan 09175229613 BERT LINA IMAGE CREDIT:  ahente probokador via Facebook.com Omniprime Marketing Inc, the winning bidder of a PhP 650-million contract to establish an integrated and modern customs system,  will file a Motion for Preventive Suspension against Bureau of Customs Commissioner Alberto D. Lina at the Office of the Ombudsman on 1 September 2015, Tuesday, 1:30 pm. Omniprime officials will be accompanied by their lead counsels,  Atty. Harry L. Roque Jr and Atty Joel R. Butuyan. Date:  Tuesday, 1 September 2015 Time: 1:30 pm Venue: Office of the Ombudsman harryroque | August 30, 2015 at 5:50 pm

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SANDERS GETS HISTORY RIGHT ON HITLERS RISE TO POWER

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders via Facebok.com

August 28 at 1:41pm · 

Good read from Vox: Sen. Sanders was called a liar for saying Hitler won an election. But he was right.

Sanders Gets History Right on Hitler's Rise to Power

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

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KAYAKTIVISTS TOOK TO THE SEA IN CALIFORNIA

Greenpeace USA via Facebook.com

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Amazing! Kayaktivists took to the sea in California last weekend to say no to offshore oil drilling. Their actions helped to raise awareness of the irreversible damage of oil spills and reminded the world of the dangers of drilling in critical places like the Arctic.

Activists Take to the Sea to Help Stop Future Oil Spills

Activists in Santa Barbara, California took to the sea to take a stand against offshore oil drilling. Surfrider Foundation, in collaboration with Patagonia,

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The only way good things happen in Washington is if good people outside Washington force them to happen.

Robert Reich via Facebook.com

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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both focused on widening inequality at yesterday’s Democratic National Committee’s summer gathering, but Bernie also talked about a political movement. “Democrats will not retain the White House, will not regain the Senate, will not gain the House and will not be successful in dozens of governor’s races unless we run a campaign which generates excitement and momentum and which produces a huge voter turnout,” he said.

Bernie is right – but his point goes far beyond the Democratic Party. There is no way to reverse widening inequality, stagnant wages, the persistence of poverty, and unequal opportunity in America without a political movement to overcome the moneyed interests that have taken over our democracy. Good policy ideas are irrelevant without a public that’s mobilized, organized, and energized enough to make them happen.

In the campaign of 1936, a voter approached Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying she’d vote for him if he did several things in his second term she wanted done. “I’d like to do every one of those,” he said, “but if I'm elected, you must make me.” In other words, he couldn’t do them by himself even if elected president. He needed her and millions like her to push him and Congress to do it. I’ve worked for three presidents and viewed several others close up. Campaign promises are meaningless. The only way good things happen in Washington is if good people outside Washington force them to happen. This is truer now than ever.

Bernie’s campaign is important not just for what Bernie is saying must be done, but for the movement he is mobilizing.

Election 2016: Independent Bernie Sanders tells DNC it's time for a grassroots movement

Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee addressed the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis Friday

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Another wave of fundamental reform is on its way.

Robert Reich via Facebook.com

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Several of you have asked me why I post quotes from the 1830s, 1910s, 1930s, and 1960s and early 1970s. It’s because in those four periods Americans reasserted power over financial elites that threatened to usurp our economy and democracy. Unlike societies that have succumbed to fascism, communism, totalitarianism, and violent revolution when their people become frustrated and fearful, America reforms itself. That’s what we did in the 1830s when elites accrued unwarranted privileges, and we abolished property rights for voting, enabled small businesses to incorporate without legislation, and fought off a national bank; between 1901 and 1916 during the Progressive Era, when we established a progressive income tax, enacted pure food and drug laws, and split up the giant trusts; during the New Deal of the 1930s, when we created Social Security, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, a 40-hour workweek, and required employers to negotiate with labor unions; and in the 1960s and early 1970s when we enacted Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Medicare and Medicaid, the Environmental Protection Act, and the Federal Election Campaign Act.

Another wave of fundamental reform is on its way.

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The full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Bernie Sanders  via Facebook.com

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We can live in a country where every person, no matter their race, their religion, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

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