Yearly Archives: 2024

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #192, AUGUST 19, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-192-august-19.html Late Breaking:  Protest v. Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Equador.  Nature’s Rights.Yunkaporta.  Indigenous Thinking.Greenpeace.  Climate Action. Breaking News: PROTEST THURSDAY MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX, the USA’s TOP SINGLE PRODUCER OF CO2This Thursday at 8 A.M., many of the top Military-Industrial Complex war profiteering corporations are holding a “Mid-America Defense Summit” at Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR (3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway). This event will feature speeches by AR politicians and arms dealers. We must speak out.  We will be protesting on the sidewalks in front of Embassy Suites event center in Rogers. Please be there at about 7:45, so we are visible to event […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #190, AUGUST 14, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-190-august-14.html ANOTHER WAR: SUDAN As soon as I read the latest Tomgram in July, I thought to place it in WWW, and wondered about the causes of the Sudan disaster, and US involvement.  I hoped the UN’s diverse agencies were still helping despite their small budgets. The UN Security Council voted to withdraw its UNITAMS mission there (Russia abstaining), but the UN is keeping some of its humanitarian agencies.  Below is the google response to my “UN in Sudan” search and a message I had received from UNFPA in April.   From these reports, I learn of […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #191, AUGUST 12, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-191-august-12.html UNITED NATIONS: UNESCO Green Citizens.Norman Cousins.  Human Options.  Support the UN for World Peace.Jill Stein for the Green New Deal United Nations Green CitizensA global voice for local actors of change: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.  UNESCO Green Citizens is the bridge between UNESCO’s scientific expertise, local citizen solutions and young people’s willingness to act against climate change. UNESCO has identified over 150 local initiatives across 65 countries which are citizen driven, innovative, impactful, and replicable solutions across five key themes for the fight against global warming and to preserve the […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #189, AUGUST 7, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-189-august-7.html Robert Edwards.  Resisting the Right: How to Survive the Gathering Storm.  OR Books, 2024.  320 pages .  Paperback and E-book.    Foreword by JAMES CARROLL. “Combines the revelations of unfolding tragedy with the artistry of a story-teller.”  —Bill Moyers “Profoundly disturbing.”  —Kai Bird “Details with precision the perilous place we are in as a country.”  —Amy Hanauer Publisher’s description:   Resisting the Right is a handbook for surviving a far-right take-over of the United States. Today, that prospect is a frightening reality. It threatens the irreversible destruction of America’s democratic system.  In a powerful and necessary intervention, Robert […]

ISRAEL-PALESTINE ANTHOLOGY #17, 2023. FROM UPRISING 2021 TO HAMAS BREAKOUT OCTOBER 7, 2023 August 10, 2024

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.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-israel-palestine-anthology-17-from.html Compiled by Dick Bennett FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY   (#1 Feb. 22, 2011; #2 Feb. 16, 2012; #3 March 1, 2012; #4 May 18, 2012; #5 August 13, 2012; #6 October 29, 2012; #7 Dec. 17, 2012; #8 March 29, 2013; #9 Oct. 21, 2013; #10 April 28, 2014; #11, July 1, 2015; #12, June 21, 2016; #13, August 13, 2016; #14, May 15, 2021; #15, May 17, 2021; #16, May 25, 2021) http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS Rabbi Arthur Waskow.  “…One More Murder.”  An important “Hamas” distinction; three tasks.Julia Frankel.  The Unprecedented Death Toll. George Yancy.  Reporting […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #190, AUGUST 5, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-190-august-5.html This week on Yale Climate Connections May 13 – 17, 2024.   https://yaleclimateconnections.org/author/msvoboda/ Michael Svoboda, Engine of Information about CC Michael Svoboda, Ph.D., is the Yale Climate Connections books editor. He is a professor in the University Writing Program at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he has taught since 2005.Create your own climate change summer reading program by MICHAEL SVOBODA MAY 15, 2024 Pick six books from this list for a crash course in climate science, impacts, and action. 12 new books to honor Earth Day by MICHAEL SVOBODA APRIL 22, 2024.Book review: ‘Saving Ourselves’ author says we […]

HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2024

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AUGUST 6 AND 9 (AUGUST 4 EVENT, Part II)August 2, 2024 Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake?  Threat of nuclear war.David Krieger:  The starting point for ending the omnicidal threat of nuclear weapons is the recognition that the threat is real and pervasive and requires action. Each of us is threatened. All we love and hold dear is threatened. The future is threatened. We are called upon to end our complacency and respond to this threat by demanding that our leaders develop a clear pathway to the total elimination of nuclear […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #188, July 31, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-188-july-31.html RIGHT TURN USA: Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Project 2025 Continues The Historic… Fascist Project By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The right wing counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, instructing the US Chamber of Commerce how to defeat the “attack on the American free enterprise system”. The Contract with America 1994 outlined Newt Gingrich’s plan for Republican Party control of congress. -more- Southern Poverty Law Center:  Year in Hate and Extremism Report The extreme right prepares for the […]