Top ten ways to slow or reverse global warming

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Sunday April 22, 2007 · 1:14 PM PDT

2007/04/22 · 13:14

Our one and only planet is heating up, fast. CO2 burned 200 years ago is still lingering up above us, warming the planet, compounded every day by still increasing tonnage that won't go away for a thousand years, melting ice caps and glaciers, heating and acidifying oceans, decimating phytoplankton that grows best in cold water, removing the foundations of Earth's entire biotic ecosystem, from crab larvae to terrestrial mammals like us.

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Which of these top ten is possible?

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Which of these top ten is possible?

Support Earth-bound politicians

3 votes

Demand inexpensive, plug-in biodiesel hybrid cars

3 votes

Use wind and solar power for homes

5 votes

Find locally grown food

7 votes

Buy and use florescent light bulbs

33 votes

Return to simple pleasures

4 votes

De-throne the corporate rulers

4 votes

Stop travelling so much

1 vote

Stop having so many babies

8 votes

Stop having so many wars

4 votes

All of the above

84 votes

None of the above

9 votes

Bush/Cheney/Rummy PR blitz: It's a pose, their words are absurd

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 8:40 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 20:40

So we have a choreographed ballet a trois, with Rummy and Cheney calling people Nazi appeasers while Bushy says Iraq is not just part of the war on terror, it's the main show!!
Their words are absolute BS. There's no comparison between Hitler and the Sunni insurgency or Al Queada or anything going on today, and the civil war in Iraq and the few foreigners there to take advantage of a chance to kill US soldiers have nothing to do with preventing terror attacks, anywhere.
But they are striking a pose, playing a role, acting like fighters, on the offensive, calling people names and starting fights to back up their authority and their decisions, regardless of any facts or reality at all. Read More

Enough with the humiliation (war) already!

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Friday August 04, 2006 · 4:34 PM PDT

2006/08/04 · 16:34

I'm watching air strikes obliterate the foundations of life in Lebanon, while Israelis flee by the thousands to escape Hezbollah rockets. All the while Shiites are yelling "death to Israel" and more pundits are saying Hezbollah fighters are terrorists who don't care about human life and can't be reasoned with.
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Marine Science big mammal report - Orcinus orca

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Sunday July 23, 2006 · 10:47 AM PDT

2006/07/23 · 10:47

The best kept secret in all civilizations is that we are animals! We are medium-sized mammals, who just happen to have evolved the ability and the need to construct vast symbolic systems to define ourselves, and now we can't see our way out of our own systems, so we fight each other to the death to defend them. Hoisted on our own petards! Our daily lives are dominated by humans acting badly toward one another while ignoring and trampling the natural wonders that are the real foundations of our own lives.
But there is at least one other species that has also evolved the capacity to construct symbolic systems of self-definition and live according to those rules within distinct cultures sustainably for thousands of generations: Orcinus orca. We can learn much from the orca. If you are skeptical, you should be. That's the scientific method, along with reliance on the accumulated evidence and the published work of other scientists.
Below the fold: the astounding natural history of Orcinus orca.
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Cheney got suckered into the war

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Saturday July 01, 2006 · 7:41 AM PDT

2006/07/01 · 07:41

Here's the answer to "cut and run." Here's the way to bring down the whole Cheney/Rove/Bush imperial presidency with pure, uncorrupted truth.
"Cut and run" implies that we Americans have made a commitment to the Iraqi people to help them form a unified, democratic government. The idea is that it's a moral failing to walk, or run, away from a solemn commitment, in keeping with the idea that the fear-baiters now in control of the US government are somehow more moral than those of us who want to end this war and get out of Iraq.
The following is the actual, true history of Cheney's war in Iraq. Read More

THERE IS NO "IRAQ"

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Saturday June 24, 2006 · 9:56 AM PDT

2006/06/24 · 09:56

I'm shouting to overwhelm the mass delusion that there is a single country inside the borders that we now call "Iraq."
Every time anyone, whether Republican, Democrat, media or neighbor says the word "Iraq" they are under the spell of a delusion that has been fostered for almost a century. They are reflecting the overall delusion that there is an Iraq, and there are Iraqis.
I'm painting a grossly simplified version of an alternate picture of that region knowing that there are many nuances and ambiguous trends in play there, but if anyone looks at the historical context with any timeline from the past millenium to the past century to the past week, one can see that there are three separate and distinct, and mutually hostile, cultures (Sunni, Shiite and Kurd) that were violently forced together under the brutal despotic rule of Sunni masters since at least 1920.
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Iraq war over: Iran won

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Sunday January 22, 2006 · 3:08 PM PST

2006/01/22 · 15:08

When Operation Iraqi Freedom began, the Bush administration planned on liberating a monolithic people pressed beneath a dictator's heel.
But instead, the southern two-thirds of Iraq have de facto become "the Islamic republic of Iraq," says Ken Joseph, an Assyrian who grew up in Japan, studied in the U.S., and who has been active in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam Hussein. "We call it 'Western Iran,'" says a demoralized Joseph.
The Reverend Ken Joseph is one of many Assyrians who returned to Iraq, along with Iraqis of different ethnicities, after the U.S. invasion, equipped with high hopes that a new democratic and secular Iraq would emerge from the ashes of the old regime. Instead, he and the approximate two million Assyrians, of which many are Christian, are seeing the country divided into what Joseph calls "Shiistan" in the south, "Sunnistan" in the center and Kurdistan in the north. Read More

6 ways to kill the ESA in 1 bill

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Sunday September 25, 2005 · 2:08 PM PDT

2005/09/25 · 14:08

RADICAL LAWMAKERS PASS BILL TO ALLOW EXTINCTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES

Thursday, September 22 -
Washington, DC - The House Committee on Resources overwhelmingly approved the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act (TESRA) of 2005 by a bipartisan vote, 26-12. Six Democrats and eight Republicans - including Cathy McMorris, R-Wash. - signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.

H.R. 3824: "To amend and reauthorize the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species, and for other purposes" (http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/more/esa/TESRA/hr3824.pdf).

This bill would do exactly the opposite of what is claimed in the title. It would render the ESA null and void and prevent conserving and recovering listed species. The bill should be called "How to destroy the Endangered Species Act." See below for the "other purposes" Read More

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