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Good and Bad Choices for Energy Policy and the Environmental Movement 2009-2010

Good and Bad Choices for Energy Policy and the Environmental Movement 2009-2010 ( 12)
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By Morton S. Skorodin, M.D. Axis of Logic Exclusive
Axis of Logic
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009

Copenhagen climate talkers

From Examiner.com, http://www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Corporate-food-supply---secured-by-war
 


Peace activism = climate activism

"Militarism is the way corporations maintain their access to their food supply — the planet."   --Steve Martinot, Militarism and Global Warming

The best thing that could come out of the Copenhagen talks is not more ineffectual standards and protocols, but protest, anti-war protest.

 From Examiner.com, http://www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Cli...


Intranasal H1N1 Vaccine Sheds Live Virus; Other Recent Vaccination News

Sarasota County public health officials have announced that more than

2,000 doses of the Intranasal swine-flu vaccine have arrived in

Sarasota County.

 

According to US FDA, the intranasal vaccine "sheds" live virus; it may

actually spread H1N1 ‘swine flu’ virus.

 

ABC TV-7, Denver, is reporting that Denver-area “Hospitals Shun H1N1


Working to be Eco friendly

 

Working to be Eco friendly

 by Mike Lehman

 

Robina Suwol, Environmental Health Leader Nominated for Hero Award

Robina Suwol, Environmental Health Leader Nominated for Hero Award

The Jewish Community Hero of the Year will be provided with $25,000 to be used as an investment in their community project or non-profit effort via his or her local Jewish Federation, or another recognized 501(c)3 charitable entity or Canadian equivalent, and he or she will be invited to and recognized at the 2009 UJC/Federation General Assembly in Washington.

Fox News Says Sarasota Schools Are Anti-Capitalist

Fox News' Glen Beck claims that Sarasota Public Schools are promoting anti-capitalism by including The Story Of Stuff ( http://www.storyofstuff.com/ ) in their curriculum.

Beck says: "My question is, as I'm reading this, basically, what it is saying is this indoctrination stuff is basically saying you don't have value and people aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation. Now, they believe that if we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.


Swamp Defender Takes On Energy Giant's Claims To Barley Barber Swamp

Stuart, FL—Today’s victory against Florida Power & Light (FPL) was bittersweet for Stevie Lynn Lowe. The jury returned a ‘not-guilty’ verdict for the charge of Trespassing on the Barley Barber swamp, indicating that State Prosecutors, Maria Zamora were unable to establish clear property boundaries for the old-growth swamp claimed as private property by FPL . Yet, in a confusing twist of events, a verdict of ‘guilty’ was returned for the charge of Resisting Without Violence (a charge which rarely stands on its own.)


Havasupi organize protest of Grand Canyon uranium mining

 Denison uranium mine, Grand Canyon, AZ. Denison uranium mine, Grand Canyon, AZ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Native American Havasupi tribe have invited the public to join them, on July 25th and 26th, to protest at Red Bluff, Arizona, a Havasupi sacred site threatened by Denison Mining's plan to reopen its open pit uranium mine, Arizona One, near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  


The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history: July 16, 1979, Navajo Reservation

July 16th, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. 

Three hours and 50 miles downriver, in Gallup, New Mexico, employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission tested the Rio Puerco and found it 7,000 times more radioactive than was then deemed allowable.

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