Yearly Archives: 2023

Hiroshima Nagasaki Day returns

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Sunday August 6 – 7:00 pm Omni Center Omni and our predecessors have held Hiroshima Nagasaki commemorations since 1971, but covid caused a deep cleft in our practice. For the first time in 3 years Omni will be hosting an event to honor the deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and remind ourselves of the terrible consequences of using weapons of mass destruction. It’s especially relevant as nuclear nations are facing off over the Ukraine war and multiple other hotspots around the globe. Covid isn’t the only big change that’s happened though. Climate change has caused a near-certain increase in August […]

UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #30B July 24, 2023

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OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #30B, July 24, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture, of Peace, Justice, and Ecology CONTENTS Chris Hedges Prophetic Indignation 2014 When, Why, Who. Faina Savenkova. Why the War Started and Who Started It. Oleg Nesterenko (Interview).  “Without the 2014 coup, Ukraine would be living in peace.” Four Summary Essays Joe Lauria.  “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.” Chris Hedges.  “. . . And They Are Lying About Ukraine.” Matthew Hoh.  “A War Long Wanted: Diplomatic Malpractice in Ukraine.”Eve Ottenberg.   Summary of US Provocation of Ukraine War, Calamitous War, Worse […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #137, JULY 24, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-137-july-24.html RESISTANCE (5)Steve Dunn.  2007 Early Warning: “Minimizing Global Warming.” (Dick).Bernard Connaughton.  XR v. Citibank.Dick.  Population Connection.JAKE JOHNSON.  Greenpeace v. EU Planet-Warming Pollution.GELF.  New Book, Putting Out the Planetary Fire. Early Warnings of Climate Change  Steve Dunn.  “Driving Home: 4 Steps Toward Minimizing Global Warming and Achieving Energy Independence.”   The Humanist Sept.-Oct. 2007.    Recently I heard a participant of a climate panel complain about the rising temperature: “Why weren’t we warned?”  Well, scientist James Hansen warned Congress in 1988; the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began its studies eventually calling upon thousands of scientists in 1990 resulting in […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #136, JULY 17, 2023

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http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-136-july-17.htmlArt Hobson, Leaving FF in the Ground.Kenny Stancil.  Methane Leaks from Gas As Bad as Coal.Kendra Pierre-Louis.  Hollywood Avoids CC.Kyubin Kim.  CC? Change? Catastrophe? Chaos? “Global warming credibility gap.Will the promised goals be met?”Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu   NWADG, 11 July 2023.           Humankind has finally achieved the first goal required to prevent disastrous global warming:  Civilized people finally recognize this as a real threat caused by fossil fuels and deforestation.  Just as the cigarette industry knew the danger of their product but lied about it, the fossil fuel industry knew the dangers of global warming by 1980 and devoted the next […]

Stories from the white house afterthe CUP was nixed

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Long long ago before covid, a friendly homeless guy named Jerry started camping in the yard of an old white apartment house on Government Street. It was a quiet place, next to the National Cemetery and across the street from the sale barn where the neighbors were mostly cows. One of the tenants asked the landlord if Jerry could stay, and they all struck up a friendship. They were friends for a long time, until the tenant got sick and died. But Jerry and the landlord are still friends. Then covid came. With it came a lot of wild and crazy things. Nobody could go […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #134, JULY 12, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-134-july-12.htmlJuan Cole, From Militarism to Invading Ourselves.Roots Action.  Unrestrained US Military Spending.WBW’s Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism conference September 22-24. OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, JULY 15, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Jeffrey Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, two urgent petitions, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War.  Sandy Lee-Shirley, Abel Tomlinson, Dick Bennett, and more. Here is the conclusion of Cole’s analysis of the Bush, Cheney, Rice admin.’s lying, illegal, cruel, atrocious invasion of Iraq […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #135, JULY 10, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-135-july-10.html Terrifying Tuesday.Global Heat, Greenland ThreatMichael Mann’s New Book, Our Fragile Moment “’Terrifying’: Tuesday Was Hottest Day Ever, Breaking Record Set Just 24 Hours Earlier.”  July 5, 2023. Data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows that the average global temperature reached 17.01°C, or 62.62°F, on Monday—making it the hottest day ever recorded. The record lasted just 24 hours.   On Tuesday, the global average temperature peaked at a new all-time high of 17.18°C as regions worldwide—from Asia to Africa to the U.S. South—reeled from dangerous heatwaves.  READ THE FULL STORY  Climate change studies by the IPCC and policymakers show […]