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OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #250, OCTOBER 8, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-250-october-8.html NUCLEAR WAR DANGER Scott Ritter.   Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024.NCTE’s George Orwell Award. Back from the Brink.  “Action Alert: Urge Your Local and State Officials to Show Leadership.”   Nuclear War Danger, Need for Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons Abolition Scott Ritter.   Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024.  Clarity P, 2025. The world stands on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon, the byproduct of a confluence of the demise of the foundational principles of arms control that had served as a check on the world’s two largest nuclear-armed nations, the United States and Russia, […]

SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #7, September 16, 2025

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(Highlighting JUNE 10, 2025, Anniversary of June 10, 1963, JFK’s Peace Speech, Scott Ritter’s Citizens’ Summit 2025, and 100 Years of US Enmity against SU/Russia). Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake:  Seeing the World as Others See It      The bafflingly widespread dislike of neocon capitalist, oligarchical Russia is partly traceable to the long exclusion of Soviet/Russian culture in the US.  For example, how many of you have read a book by a Soviet or Russian writer, or even an essay?  I grew aware of this void in the 1970s when I began to study […]

Annual OACC Conference

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Oct 26-28 Hammond Mill Camp West Plains MO Here’s an interesting FYI: The Ozark Area Community Congress is an ecological network and a forum for idea exchange; individual participants work in their own fascinating respective fields, but meet annually to share about their work. It’s been meeting annually for 46 years. A number of Omni folks have talked about how much they’ve enjoyed the camp, the people, and the topics that’ve been presented. Many people feel it’s bioregionalism at its best. For a glimpse at the kinds of projects people are working on check out the webpage. You’ll likely recognize […]

Save Our Heartland Forest!

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Save Our Heartland Forest Still waiting on the bore tests to show how unsuitable this ridge is for building a huge middle school with sports fields and traffic. There are better places for a new Ramey. Here’s info from Andrea Fournet about opportunities to join the Save our Heartland Forest effort. Thanks for your interest.  Here is the link to the petition for people to sign! And here’s the facebook page where you can follow what’s happening

Shelter for homeless folks in Fayetteville

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A cool local company – Natural State Treehouse Builders – is partnering with Gateway Project and hopefully lots of others on an amazing idea. The community houses its homeless neighbors! OMNI Pod Cottages materials needs What we’re up to and how you can help:Natural State Treehouses and OMNI/Gateway Project are partnering to build a prototype of an 8’x12′ small one person house. Our hope is that this prototype will demonstrate how affordable a comfortable, well-built but small home can be. We believe that the simplicity, durability and low cost of this model will open up new options for providing shelter […]

WARkansas People’s Assembly

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friendsofpalestinenwa invites you to this important gathering Thursday Sept 4 – 6:00 pm Good Shepherd Lutheran Church We’re coming together again to build community power in Northwest Arkansas. Join us for the WARkansas People’s Assembly on Thursday, September 4th. This assembly is a next in mobilizing against Arkansas becoming a war dependent economy, following our successful disruption of the Mid-America Aerospace and Defense Summit. Where we made it clear, the people of Arkansas do not welcome corporations that profit from war and genocide. Now, it’s time to turn that energy into long-term organizing. What to expect: Learn about Arkansas’s growing investments in the […]

Fayetteville weakens its recycling system

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Taylor Bridges Sat, Aug 9 at 2:06 PM The Fayetteville City Council hastily voted to change from one of the best curbside recycling programs in the United States to singlestream recycling. This was after paying over $111,000 to Raftelis Financial Consultants for a trash collection rate study, with obvious holes in its data, such as: Please take the response survey here – https://forms.gle/1JBcbyH6kwdzzWfSA – https://forms.gle/1JBcbyH6kwdzzWfSA • How did they estimate how many new customers would recycle? • How did they estimate a contamination rate of less than 10%? Other area cities have a rate above 40%? • In the report, […]