ONE SIMPLE CHART EXPLAINS THE CLIMATE PLANS OF HILLARY CLINTON AND BERNIE SANDERS

ONE SIMPLE CHART EXPLAINS THE CLIMATE PLANS OF HILLARY CLINTON AND BERNIE SANDERS

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Pope Francis: “We’ve Turned the Earth into a Pile of Filth”

San Diego Free Press A New Wrinkle on the Chargers Stadium Story: Summer Olympics in LA? Pope Francis: “We’ve Turned the Earth into a Pile of Filth” Whistleblower Exposes Torture and Child Abuse at For-Profit Prison How America Is Failing Its Schools Pope Francis: “We’ve Turned the Earth  into a Pile of Filth” Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:04 AM PDT By John Lawrence  Add Pope Francis to the world's leaders who are calling for immediate action to combat climate change. In the Pope's own words the earth has become a pezzo di merda, a piece of you know what. He has also described unbridled capitalism as the"dung of the devil." Popes are not often given to scatological imagery to describe the predominant American economic system. However, the Pope's words are very important because he wields enormous moral authority. Would that the leading moral authorities from the world's other major religions had the gumption to stand up and add their voices in the fight against climate change. The Pope blames human greed for exploitation of the environment and an economic system that is geared to profit making rather than to rational development of natural resources which would benefit all mankind rather than just those at the top. The Pope's 184 page encyclical is a radical statement: a condemnation of business as usual and a call for a restructuring on political and economic priorities.   [Read more...] A New Wrinkle on the Chargers Stadium Story: Summer Olympics in LA? Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:54 AM PDT By Doug Porter The city of Boston, Massachusetts bailed on its grand plans for hosting the 2024 Olympics yesterday and Los Angeles immediately became the next contender. This development could be a game changer when it comes to the NFL’s thought processes on the future of the San Diego Chargers franchise.  An Olympic bid would provide additional impetus towards getting another venue built in LA. The United State Olympic Committee has until September to figure out an alternative location. The chatter in the press is that the best option remaining is Los Angeles, host to the 1932 and 1984 games.LA’s proposed a bid centered on several clusters of venues including Exposition Park, Downtown, one along the LA River, the Westside, Long Beach, and --ta! da! --Carson.  [Read more...]         Whistleblower Exposes Torture and Child Abuse at For-Profit Prison Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:04 AM PDT By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams A social worker formerly employed at a for-profit family immigrant detention center in Texas blew the whistle this week on the prison's inhumane conditions—from solitary confinement to medical neglect—that she said amount to child abuse and torture. The Karnes County Residential Center is operated by GEO Group—the second largest private prison company in the country that has faced numerous accusations of atrocities and civil rights violations. It is also the site of recent—and repeated—hunger strikes led by mothers incarcerated with their children, in protest of their conditions, detentions, and in many cases, their looming deportations.   [Read more...]     How America Is Failing Its Schools Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:03 AM PDT America’s schools are not failing; America is failing its schools By Salvatore Babones / Inequality.org The 1983 blue-ribbon panel report A Nation At Risk exposed the dire state of America’s schools. The report was commissioned by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell to address “the widespread public perception that something is seriously remiss in our educational system.” The commission included 12 administrators, 1 businessperson, 1 chemist, 1 physicist, 1 politician, 1 conservative activist, 1 teacher — and not a single expert on America’s educational system. The report concluded that “declines in educational performance are in large part the result of disturbing inadequacies in the way the educational process itself is often conducted.” It advocated an expansion of standardized testing to ensure better performance.   [Read more...]

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California’s Oil Industry Captures Regulatory Apparatus BY DAN BACHER Dan Bacher: The oil industry exerts inordinate influence over the regulators by using a small fraction of the billions of dollars in profits it makes every year to lobby state officials and fund political campaigns.  READ HERE shared from

TUESDAY, 28 JULY 2015 Will Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Hope Triumph? John Peeler: In these times of racial tensions around repeated police killings of unarmed blacks, it is easy to see why Coates is pessimistic, and hard to understand why he continues to have enough hope to keep on writing to a white audience. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend “Hearts and Minds” Forgotten Rudy Acuña: If in the 1960s we would have talked about assassinations, there would have been a reaction; today it is routine, part of everyday life. READ HERE If You Care About California, Then You Should Care About Salinas Joe Mathews: The agricultural superstar's high crime and poor health are dark indicators of what the Golden State could become. READ HERE In Defense of DACA! Wednesday evening, participate in a presentation and discussion in Pasadena on DACA about two recent court hearings. READ MORE California's Oil Industry Captures Regulatory Apparatus Dan Bacher: The oil industry exerts inordinate influence over the regulators by using a small fraction of the billions of dollars in profits it makes every year to lobby state officials and fund political campaigns. READ HERE

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SHELL NO!: The Fight Is Just Beginning

Jul 28th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Cindy Shogan: Executive director, Alaska Wilderness League: 28 July 2015

Last week, myself, staff members from Alaska Wilderness League, a few mascots and some inflatable kayaks made our way to Lafayette Park just outside the president’s house — joining in the “kayaktivist” movement to protect the Arctic from Shell. The Save the Arctic movement has grown to a fever pitch this year —what ignited in Seattle with kayaktivists has caught like wildfire throughout the nation. Hundreds of activists have paddled in kayaks, floated on boats and paddle boards, and joined in rallies to say “ShellNo!”

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Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change, Environment, Greenpeace, Gulf of Alaska, Oil, Oil Spill, Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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More and bigger drilling-linked earthquakes rattle Oklahoma

More and bigger drilling-linked earthquakes rattle Oklahoma

Jul 28th, 2015 

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By Heide Brandes: 28 July 2015

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Several earthquakes shook Oklahoma on Monday as the state experiences a sharp increase in the frequency of tremors linked to wastewater disposal from gas and oil drilling, including from fracking, state and federal officials said.

Three of Monday’s quakes measured above a magnitude 4.0, with a 4.5 earthquake centered just north of Crescent, roughly 45 miles (72 km) north of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

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Senate bill would give oil companies a decade more to drill in Arctic leases

Senate bill would give oil companies a decade more to drill in Arctic leases

Jul 28th, 2015

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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy: July 27, 2015

WASHINGTON – Shell and other oil companies with leases in U.S. Arctic waters could get an extra 10 years to develop them under a proposal advancing in the Senate.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, embedded the Arctic lease provisions in a broader bill that also would lift the U.S. crude export ban, expand offshore drilling and give coastal states a greater share of revenue from the activity.

The measure is slated for action in Murkowski’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week and next. If the panel approves the offshore drilling legislation, that would prime it for floor consideration after the Senate’s August recess and position it as a possible addition to a comprehensive energy package also moving through the committee.

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Shell to move to new shift pattern

Shell to move to new shift pattern

Jul 28th, 2015 

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Written by Harriet Brace – 28/07/2015 8:06 am

A major oil firm has confirmed its offshore workers will be the latest to move over to a new three weeks on shift pattern.

Oil giant Shell today confirmed the company will be moving to the new working pattern for offshore employees.

Offshore workers at Shell are currently on a two weeks on, three weeks off rotation.

However, the firm’s representatives have yet to confirm the arrangement for its employees’ off time, which is still under consultation.

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