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In as little as 10 years, or even less, “the point of no return with global warming may have been reached” states The Independent regarding a report to be released Tuesday by the International Climate Change Taskforce (ICCT).
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This week I will attend a conference at Middlebury College of “national leaders and grassroots organizers concerned with the climate crisis”. Attendees will include Executive Director of Greenpeace U.S.A. John Passacantando and “End of Nature” and “Enough” author Bill McKibben and others.
The conference will attempt to address a question asked in the Economist Magazine: “Could the next grassroots revolution in America be over climate change?”
I have very little respect for Peggy Noonan. This is the former speech writer for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush who gave us those Presidential phrases we wish we could forget including “a kinder, gentler nation”, “a thousand points of light”, and “read my lips: no new taxes”. (more…)
I am speechless. I have not seen something so hypocritical in years. There on Fox News Sunday we had Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Maura Liason, and Bill Kristol discussing whether CBS News should have been “indicted for bias” by the panel that reviewed the Rathergate incident. (more…)
The Washington Post reports that George W. Bush believes the election ratified his Iraq policy. Yes and in 2002 both George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein believed that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. Two men of self-delusion: George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. (more…)
World War II Poster
Future generations will wonder what happened to America at the beginning of the 21st century.
STOP whatever you are doing and call and e-mail your Senators right now and ask them to vote against the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General of the United States. Not only is Mr. Gonzales a man who advised the President that torture was OK because the Geneva conventions were ‘quaint’ and ‘obsolete’ and who basically said that the President is beyond the law, but he also, as Governor Bush’s counsel in Texas, helped shepherd the execution of 150 men and two women in just six years and “repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence.”
I am very concerned about the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Atty. General. Mr. Gonzales’ role in drafting Presidential memos sanctioning torture on prisoners was extremely poor judgment.
Defying the Geneva Convention puts our own soldiers at extreme risk and sends a terrible message to the nation and the world.
I urge you to please vote against Mr. Gonzales’ nomination for Attorney General of the United States.
Sincerely,
Stephen C. Nodvin
Nashua, New Hampshire
I don’t know how he was able to do it but somehow Jon Stewart was able to provide some comic relief on the Daily Show into this terrible tsunami tragedy .
BBC News has posted an excellent presentation on the mechanisms behind the tsunami disaster HERE.
Another excellent presentation is posted on Wikipedia HERE.