Meet Ward 1 Candidates for Fayetteville City Council
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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Emerging Homeless Solutions
Thrive In Place… Yes, gentrification in Salt Lake City sounds like Fayetteville How do other cities manage their homeless crises? Lots of problems, seems like not many solutions. Here’s a news report from Washington D.C. that could be the story of cities all over the country. Washington DC saw a 40% spike in homeless encampments starting with covid. That’s huge! Their story has points that sound eerily familiar for Fayatteville. There are a LOT of homeless people, they just kind of appeared during covid, and they seem too have, and are causing, a lot of similar problems. The neighborhoods where encampments […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #148, OCTOBER 18, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-148-october.html US MilitarismNukewatch QuarterlyUS Peace Prize to NNOMY US Militarism US militarism is pervasive, but often so small and unobtrusive that it seems natural. “Were you in the Service? Thank you for your service” said the clerk at my hardware store, and he wasn’t referring to nurses or teachers. The military-corporate complex foregrounding jobs isspread throughout the congressional districts. This system for war is so pervasively routine that it seems natural when Congress every year heaps more money on the amount the militarist President already requested, and the public makes no outcry! In contrast, countless urgent needs are underfunded. […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #149, OCTOBER 16, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-149-october.html Militarism, War, and Climate Change; Dick’s Review of The Green Zone. Canary Worker’s Coop.New “countdown clock” project. WAR AND CLIMATE CHANGE: The Military Bridge from Holocene to Anthropocene [An earlier version was presented by KPSQ in Dick’s series entitled “War v. Environment.” Its main source was Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism (2009). Sanders fourteen years ago was extraordinarily prescient.] The Holocene epoch of stable climate, that allowed our civilization, has ended. Because of the extraordinary human buildup of population, consumption in affluent countries, capitalism/economic growth, wars, CO2/greenhouse gases, warming/weather instability, deforestation, acidification of […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #147, OCTOBER 11, 2023
OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #147, OCTOBER 11, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Preventing and Stopping WarsWe Ended World War I and WWII; We Can End the Ukraine WarArmistice Day Nov. 11David Swanson’s Book, Leaving WWII BehindDivestment from War Profiteering, Mass-Killing Corporations Gear Up for Armistice Day! November 11, 2023, is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the World War I armistice that ceased hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. With this instrument, nations still recovering from the dreadful nightmare of WWI, one […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #148, OCTOBER 9, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-148-october-9.html A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Population Connection: Stablilizing Population Growth.Adam McKay v. Fossil Fuel-funded Misinformation. RESISTING THE SOURCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Monthly Review Vol. 74, No. 5 (October 2022) “Notes from the Editors, October 2022” by The Editors. https://monthlyreview.org/2022/10/01/mr-074-05-2022-09_0/ This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential, and also controversial, environmental studies ever written: The Club of Rome’s report, The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe, 1972) by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. No other environmental work of the 1970s offered […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #146, OCTOBER 4, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-146-october-4.html NUCLEAR WEAPONSTom Dispatch and Andrea Mazzarino. “At the Brink.”Robert Weissman, “AI ADDS TO NUCLEAR DANGER.” “Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really?”September 28, 2023. TomDispatch via uark.onmicrosoft.com . . .Today, as TomDispatch regular Andrea Mazzarino reminds us, not just two but nine countries are nuclear-armed and the possibility of a nuclear war has increased accordingly. In addition, we now know that even a conflict in which the U.S. played no part could create a “nuclear winter” that would devastate this country, too. And yet, despite the recent hit movie Oppenheimer, nuclear fears and fantasies are now largely in absentia. Bert, it seems, ducked, covered, and never came up again. So, I think […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #147, OCTOBER 2, 2023
Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-147-october-2.html Al Gore. The Climate Reality Project.Thomas Kostigen. Extreme Weather Survival Guide. May 14, 2023“Mothers on Six Continents Demand Action to Protect Children From Climate Crisis.”“If we don’t act now, it will be too late,” one mom warned. “I could not live with myself, as a mother, as a doctor, and as a human being, if we didn’t do all we can to try and bring about the much-needed systemic change.” I continue to sift through boxes of books after a water pipe froze and broke last Dec. Which of the books or folders are still worth reading? The Climate […]