The Greanville Post —Vol. VII- 2013

Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL

ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CANADA, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Apr 282013

Conor Kennedy, ecowatch.com

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On Monday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the State Department that the information in the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline is “insufficient.” Among EPA’s many concerns was the State Department’s failure to adequately address the pipeline’s impacts on climate change. EPA raised a host of other issues. In fact, the State Department’s EIS is not useful for answering some of the most basic questions about Keystone XL. Continue reading »

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Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, BOURGEOIS VALUES, CELEBRITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Apr 172013

The Mirage of an Opposition
Protest and resistance are two very different things

Daryl Hanna, arrested in DC. Well intentioned, but does "soft-gloves" activism really accomplish timely social change?

Daryl Hanna, arrested in DC. Well intentioned, but can “soft-gloves” activism really accomplish timely social change, or merely the illusion of protest?

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, CounterPunch.org

The scene was striking for its dissonance. Fifty activists massed in front of the White House, some of them sitting, others tied to the iron fence, most of them smiling, all decorous looking, not a Black Blocker or Earth First!er in the viewshed. The leaders of this micro-occupation of the sidewalk held a black banner featuring Obama’s campaign logo, the one with the blue “O” and the curving red stripes that looks like a pipeline snaking across Kansas. The message read, prosaically: “Lead on Climate: Reject the KXL Pipeline.” Cameras whirred franticly, most aimed at the radiant face of Daryl Hannah, as DC police moved in to politely ask the crowd to disperse. The crowd politely declined. The Rubicon had been crossed. For the first time in 120 years, a Sierra Club official, executive director Mike Brune, was going to get arrested for an act of civil (and the emphasis here is decisively on civil) disobedience. Continue reading »

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Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones

ARCHIVES, CLIMATE CHANGE, INTERNATIONAL REPORTAGE, SAVING THE PLANET, TURKEY Comments Off

Apr 162013

ARCHIVES— Originally posted: February 25, 2010
Editor’s Note: Recent earthquakes in Haiti, Iran, Turkey , China, Japan, Mexico, Chile, etc., remind us that even in our highly technological age, man is still not entirely free from the whims of nature (which we constantly tease to make matters worse) and that quakes still pose enormous threats to tens of millions of people in some of the most congested cities around the globe. Speaking of the threat of mass extermination posed by poorly built houses or dwellings built in quake-prone zones, Dr. Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado, calls common houses “an unrecognized weapon of mass destruction.”—PG

Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones

Istanbul has a program to secure its schools against earthquakes. Above, construction at the Atakoy Lisesi school.

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Environmental change ‘triggers rapid evolution

ALERTS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLIMATE CHANGE, CONTROVERSY, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Apr 102013

By Mark Kinver
Environment reporter, BBC News

Population of soil mites (Image: Tim Benton)

Researchers were surprised how quickly the mites evolved as a result of environmental changes

Changes to their surroundings can trigger “rapid evolution” in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows. Continue reading »

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Another Breakthrough in Hydrogen Energy Challenges Fossil Fuel Dominance

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLIMATE CHANGE, ECOANIMAL, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, ETHOLOGY, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Apr 062013

Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer

Waking Times

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new process that extracts large quantities of hydrogen gas from plants in a renewable and eco-friendly way, offering us another potential alternative to ending our dependence on fossil fuels. Continue reading »

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Special: The Environmental Crisis and Capitalism

AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CITIZEN TOOLS, CLIMATE CHANGE, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off

Mar 302013

The Environmental Crisis and Capitalism
by Fred Magdoff

As published by MRzine, a fraternal information resource. Thank you, MRzine.

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There’s violence and there’s violence

Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.

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