Monthly Archives: May 2024

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #179, MAY 29, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-179-may-29-2024.html WORLD WAR II, the “Good War?” David Swanson.  Leaving WWII Behind. Daniele Ganser.  USA: The Ruthless Empire.   “In Leaving World War II Behind, David Swanson brilliantly destroys the myth that even if war is generally a bad thing World War II was the good war.  In a stunning, fact-laden exposition, Swanson demonstrates the systemic failures of the western governments together with their corporate enablers that generated the practices of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps, empowering Hitler.  Swanson shows incontrovertibly that it was an underlying drive to preserve capitalism and destroy communist encroachment that […]

CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #2 May 28, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/climate-refugees-anthology-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://Omnicenter.org/donate Related Anthologies CLIMATE REFUGEES ANTHOLOGY #1     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-refugees-anthology-1.html TEMPERATURE, HEAT, CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Anthology #3, August 29, 2020. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/08/omni-temperature-heat-climate.html UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification   www.unccd.int JUNE 17, 2021.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/omni-celebrates-june-17-2021-unccd.html  UN World Water Day, March 22 UN World Oceans Day, June 8UN World Refugee Day, June 20 CONTENTS #2 ARKANSASTwo Aspects of GrowthUSAMegadrought in US WestKatrina’s Climate CrimesGLOBALThe Crisis from 2007Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (book) IPCC’s Latest Assessment, Slow-Motion ApocalypsePacific Islands Disappearing350.org Report, Global Climate StrikeStorming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (book)Trump […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #180, MAY 27, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-180-may-27.html Refugees Ecowatch.   “World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” Wennersten and Robbins.  Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century. Todd Miller.  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security.  The Climate Moment, Stories from this unique moment on Earth ….   “What’s happening with the climate?!  World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.” https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).   This year 2024 had the hottest January […]

Thich Nhat HahnLove Letter to the Earth

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Tawwaba Bloch  From:tawwaba@gmail.com At this very moment, the earth is above you, below you, all around you, and even inside you. The earth is everywhere. You may be used to thinking of the earth as only the ground beneath your feet. But the water, the sea, the sky, and everything around us comes from the earth. Everything outside us and everything inside us come from the earth. We often forget that the planet we are living on has given us all the elements that make up our bodies. The water in our flesh, our bones, and all the microscopic cells […]

Homeless Solutions June meeting

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Thursday June 6 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Featuring Professor John Gallagher on the NWA PIT Count Remember the PIT Count is the Point In Time Count that HUD sponsors every year. It’s a snapshot count of all the homeless people in our area that can be found at that one point in time. It happens in January, and involves so much data that it takes 5 months of math to sort it all out. Dr. Gallagher has been busy. He’s now ready to make reports to interested people about findings of the count. It will be fascinating. Please […]

Vegan Summerfest July 2024

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July 10-14 – Jonestown PA, University of Pittsburgh No Omni Vegan Potluck over the summer. Instead … Organizer Chip Balew invites you to check out a fantastic opportunity that has inspired him for years. If you’re looking for an educational vegan vacation destination or you’re simply looking for vegan programs that are open to the public, welcome to the North American Vegetarian Society. Vegan Summerfest gathers people of all levels of experience at our leading vegan conference in the United States to learn more about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. Take cooking classes, begin a fitness regimen, engage in […]