Monthly Archives: October 2025

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #249, OCTOBER 1, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-249-october-1.html “Keep Our Heads” UP! VFP E-News Blast, Sept. 11.Washington Report on Middle East AffairsWill Threat of WWIII Inspire Another Global Cry for Peace? “KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN” definition.  “To avoid trouble, to try to avoid trouble or involvement in a difficult or dangerous situation by behaving in a quiet way, so that people will not notice you.  To remain inconspicuous in difficult or dangerous times.” In several groups recently I observed individuals keeping their head down when Trump was discussed.   Just the opposite of what Congressman John Lewis promoted, that people should create “good trouble,” “necessary trouble,” […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #250, September 29, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

TWO SOURCES OF INFORMATION, CONCERN, and REMEDY FOR THE CLIMATE CALAMITY PBS Documentaries.Books Reviewed in “Ecosocialist Bookshelf.” Climate on PBS One Week in September 2025 (available on Passport)Sacred Planet, Gulnaz Khan documentaries:“Stopping the Desert” and “Saving the World’s Forests.”  Khan travels the world locating examples of people resisting the climate emergency.Frontline, “Hurricane Heleine’s Deadly Warning.”  The film reports several hurricanes, their increasingly disastrous causes and consequences, but also responses:  e.g., need for significant improvement of flood plain mapping and enforcement.Age of Nature, “Understanding.”   Roaming the nation to identify endangered species and their protection; e.g., salmon. “Ecosocialist Bookshelf,” Climate and Capitalism, September […]