Stop Arming Saudi Arabia!

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Friday October 26, 2018 · 12:24 PM PDT

2018/10/26 · 12:24

Screen_Shot_2018-10-26_at_12.04.32_PM.png — A victim of Saudi Arabia's attacks on Yemen

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Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi-led coalition and its Yemeni allies have imposed a raft of punitive economic measures aimed at undercutting the Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen. But these actions — including periodic blockades, stringent import restrictions and withholding the salaries of about a million civil servants — have landed on the backs of civilians, laying the economy to waste and driving millions deeper into poverty.

Those measures have inflicted a slow-burn toll: infrastructure destroyed, jobs lost, a weakening currency and soaring prices. But in recent weeks the economic collapse has gathered pace at alarming speed, causing top United Nations officials to revise their predictions of famine.

Canada and the USA are selling arms to Saudi Arabia and are on the brink of greater arms export agreements. This is what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last said on the topic:

“We strongly demand and expect that Canadian exports are used in a way that fully respects human rights,” Trudeau said in Parliament. “We have frozen export permits before when we had concerns about their potential misuse and we will not hesitate to do so again.”

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Yes, sir, the right to live is the basic human right. And the US in one year exported $18B to Saudi Arabia.

Over the five years ending in 2017, nearly one-fifth, of American weapons exports went to Saudi Arabia, SIPRI reports. Overall, half went to the Middle East and North Africa. In the 2017 calendar year alone, some $18 billion in new Saudi arms deals were cleared by the U.S.

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A Massacre in Toronto, Canada

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Monday April 23, 2018 · 8:59 PM PDT

2018/04/23 · 20:59

Canada is hat country to the North of the USA, in its biggest city Toronto,

This afternoon at 1:30 pm Eastern Time, on a sunny, warm Spring day, after a cold winter, many people were on on the streets, especially Yonge Street, Toronto’s busiest Street. That’s when a white van barrelled down the street and for one mile going up on the sidewalks he killed 10 people and injured 16, some critically.

25 Minutes of Horror:

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Pipeline Failure: Massive Spill of 1.3m ga. of Bitumen

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Saturday July 18, 2015 · 8:03 AM PDT

2015/07/18 · 08:03

Nexen, a Chinese owned company in the Alberta Tar Sands had a massive spill when its one-year old double-walled pipeline burst, spilling 1.32 million gallons of bitumen, the largest ever spill in Alberta, (the land of spills). The line's failure detection system failed to alert officials and it was only noticed by a visual inspection of the area. Think about that when TransCanada tries to sell Keystone XL pipeline. The bitumen hasn't reached any rivers or lakes but it took place in muskeg (a grassy bog) country.

The company is careful to say "no damage to wildlife has been reported" which doesn't mean that it has not happened. We may never now the extent of the damage to flora and fauna as the company will likely guard the area.

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Thursday July 16, 2015 · 8:11 AM PDT

2015/07/16 · 08:11

Two Black Bear cubs were saved after their mother was shot by a Conservation Officer near Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada. The mother had been stealing food from a meat and fish freezer in a mobile home in the area. She was then categorized as a "problem bear" - a death sentence in the Province of BC. The cubs at about two months old had never eaten human food and therefore were not considered to be problem bears by Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant. But it seems he was not allowed to make that decision and was suspended without pay for refusing to kill the two cubs.
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Québec Canada Saves Its Boreal Forest

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Wednesday July 15, 2015 · 8:52 AM PDT

2015/07/15 · 08:52

Map: Mary-Ellen Maybee

As you can see from the map, Québec has a large portion of the Canadian boreal forest. An agreement has been reached to protect a vast area of that forest. The entire Boreal Forest spans the globe. It is a carbon reservoir, a source of fresh water and a breeding ground for millions of birds. At a time when thousands of birds face extinction this conservation is crucial. We are hoping that the rest of Canada will follow Québec's example. Those birds in the backyards of the US and Canada depend on it. Read More

This Is What Global Warming Looks Like

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Tuesday July 07, 2015 · 8:00 AM PDT

2015/07/07 · 08:00

BRITISH COLUMBIA
"Beautiful British Columbia," the tourist brochures call it.

Fires raging across B.C.

This is due to very hot weather and months without rain, in our rainforests. And higher temperatures than ever before, all part of a warming planet. This is an example of what we risk when we do not do ENOUGH to mitigate climate change. Will you hear me in Paris?

We have an air quality advisory in BC that we must stay in our homes especially the very young and the very old. The air is heavy, it burns to breath it in. Breathing as an issue trumps everything.

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Thursday May 07, 2015 · 6:01 AM PDT

2015/05/07 · 06:01

May 6, 2015: Heimdal, North Dakota has been evacuated. No injuries or fatalities to people. Looking at the black plumes we can see definite injury to the planet which has reached 400 ppm carbon today. In order to survive we have to keep that under 350 ppm. So the 6th extinction marches on.

How long are the people of North America going to allow these oil train accidents to continue? Above all, when are we going to insist on a limit to their size and frequency? They are one mile long and up to 100 - 120 cars passing through cities and towns across the continent. Train tracks originally meant to connect cities now go through heavily populated areas. They also go along rivers so that when there is a derailment our rivers are endangered by the spills. New regulations are about prevention and clean up response but what about regulations limiting the permits and the size of these trains?

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Wednesday January 28, 2015 · 7:23 AM PST

2015/01/28 · 07:23

I read most of the comments to this article. Comments closed at #146, what was the NYTimes afraid of? Every comment I read and/or skimmed was against this proposal. This is very unlike comments to The NYTimes with its wide range of readers.

Just as the glow from the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was burning, this plan arrives on the scene. (I find it strange to call this area a Wildlife Refuge when hunting has been going on for centuries.) But all those years of hunting did not harm the flora and fauna of the Refuge in the way that fossil fuel extraction would have done.

Now the plan that the President first introduced a week before the BP death gusher in 2010 is being resurrected to appease the Republicans & Democrats in Southern states.

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Breaking: Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protestors

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Friday November 21, 2014 · 1:48 PM PST

2014/11/21 · 13:48

Protesters under injunction protecting Burnaby Mountain conservation area from Kinder Morgan Pipeline Co.

Protectors of Burnaby Mountain vs. Kinders Morgan: Dozens Arrested as Inspiring Pipeline Protest Grows
Standing on side of campaigners, local mayor vows to wage 'war' against fossil fuel giant and federal government to defend community

Ongoing protests in British Columbia to stop a tar sands pipeline project by fossil fuel giant Kinder Morgan escalated on Thursday night after 26 protesters were violently arrested.
Those arrested also included protesters who refused to comply with an injunction issued earlier in the week ordering them to move from their encampment on the mountain.

In response, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan promised that he was ready to fight a "war" in the courts with the federal government.

"This is going to be a war, and it’s going to be one that carries on for a number of years,” Corrigan told the Province. "The bigger argument that needs to be fought is: How much can the federal government impose its will on local governments and the ability of people to make local decisions? That’s really the quintessential issue that takes this beyond a merely local situation to being one that attracts interest from municipalities right across Canada."

In June, an independent poll found that more than 60 percent of Burnaby residents oppose Kinder Morgan's development proposal to invest $5.4 billion into expanding an existing tar sands pipeline and storage terminal—which the city says would lead to seven times as many oil tankers using the nearby Burrard Inlet each year.

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Wednesday November 19, 2014 · 5:18 AM PST

2014/11/19 · 05:18

Keystone XL pipeline bill rejected by U.S. Senate
Bill shot down by vote of 59-41

As the vote total was announced, protesters disrupted the Senate session with First Nations-style singing and chants. Earlier, protesters crashed the offices of senators who were set to vote on the issue.
Bill 2280 would have authorized Calgary-based TransCanada Corp., the company behind the project, "to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities" as specified in an application the company filed in 2012.

Prior to the vote, 59 senators had publicly voiced support and the hunt was on for the 60th vote needed to advance the measure.

Even if passed, the bill was not expected to pass muster with U.S. President Barack Obama, who had hinted strongly he would veto the bill, which is designed to short-circuit the White House's own environmental review process.

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Wednesday October 22, 2014 · 10:53 AM PDT

2014/10/22 · 10:53

There was a gun fight inside Parilament which is now in lock-down. They believe that a shooter is still in the parliament buildings.
Updates:
- 1 shooter dead, 1 still believed at large in downtown Ottawa.
- Police searching cars leaving Ottawa trying to go to Quebec.
- Report of additional shots fired near Chateau Laurier Hotel, east of Parliament Hill.
- Police going door to door in downtown core; downtown schools in lockdown.
- All three main party leaders, Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau, reported safe.

The soldier who was shot [shortly before 10:00 am EDT] in Ottawa Wednesday morning is a reservist serving in Hamilton from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, a source has told CBC News.
Members of the Argylls were standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa this week. “The call came in that one of the soldiers has been heard from and is OK,” the source said. No information has been released about the soldier who was shot, the source said.

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Friday October 03, 2014 · 3:52 PM PDT

2014/10/03 · 15:52

There was a big drive towards carbon capture and storage or CCS ten years ago but it slowed to a crawl. It is very expensive and it is experimental. Many people are suspicious of the storage deep in the earth or in the deep ocean.

This is carbon capture

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Breaking: Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protestors

Keystone XL Pipeline Rejected by 1 vote

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