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The Royal Dutch Shell Case that Bit the Dust

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Sunday Aug 1 – 1:30 pm – zoom below   “May 26th, 2021 will go down in the annals of climate change and environmental justice activism as the day a global energy giant, Royal Dutch Shell was left undone at the Dutch Hague District Court by the indefatigable litigation efforts of climate change/Environmental Activists.”   Attorney Teraine Okpoko is an energy law attorney with a broad breadth of experience spanning over 25 years of cross-border and multijurisdictional energy casework.   Zoom link  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88399823627   Link also available on the Omni Website omnicenter.org      More details Teraine Okpoko and the Royal Dutch […]

Climate Solutions are hot right now but needs our help!

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The most effective method for lowering emissions is a well-crafted carbon price, and Citizens Climate Lobby has been crafting their bill for a decade to achieve the best possible results. They have a bill in Congress now that has good chances of passing this session, with help from friends like us. Right now forces are coalescing to encourage this. The EU has adopted a “border tariff” which will protect their own carbon fees, but will raise costs for those outside the EU. That means that American energy companies will be charged for selling energy there, which is an excellent incentive […]

Renters Assistance and the American Rescue Plan

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From: Caleb Alexander-McKinzie <cralexander@ualr.edu> Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Renters Assistance and the ARPA To: Lynn Foster <lfoster5211@gmail.com>   The eviction moratoriums are scheduled to end August 31. As soon as that happens families all over the country will move into crisis territory. The Justice in Government Project has put together an incredibly useful guide to the American Rescue Plan Act’s funding matrix. You can find it here. This guide has links to both functional and educational materials that is useful not only to tenants, but to landlords who want to help tenants with assistance and to local […]

31. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 21, 2021 WAR AND PEACE

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31.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 21, 2021WAR AND PEACE  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-21-2021.html AMERICA INVADES CHRISTOPHER KELLY, STUART LAYCOCK.HOW WE’VE INVADED OR BEEN MILITARILY INVOLVED WITH ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH.   Book Publishers Network, 2014. 396. The authors posit what many have long suspected: the United States has invaded or been militarily involved with almost every country on the globe. Kelly, a longtime military-history buff, readily admits in his introduction that he drew inspiration for his first book from Laycock’s previous work (All the Countries We Invaded: And a Few We Never Got Round To, 2012), which covers Great Britain’s overseas excursions. The two […]

31. Climate Memo Mondays, July 12, 2021

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31.  Climate Memo Mondays, July 12, 2021July 11, UN World Population Day https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/climate-memo-mondays-july-12-2021.html The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York.  Monthly Rev. P, 2011. $15.26 – $26.00 Winner of the 2010 Gerald L. Young Book Award, bestowed by the Society for Human Ecology Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through […]

30. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 14, 2021

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Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-14-2021.html Tom Engelhardt.  A Nation Unmade by War.  Haymarket, May 2018. Publisher’s Description From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity. As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United States has won nothing. Its unending wars, in fact, have only contributed to a world […]

30. Climate Memo Mondays, July 5, 2021

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CLIMATE JUSTICE 350.org Sticker: Cynthia Kaufman, The Sea Is Rising And So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook .orgThis fight for a livable climate is hard, Dick. We are up against some incredibly powerful interests, with a LOT of money at their disposal in order to maintain the status quo. And yet, with this vote, just like so many other times, this amazing movement of ours has shown that no matter how difficult it may seem at times, we are fully committed to our one true goal. We are not going to give up or let anyone shift the narrative, and […]

29. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 7, 2021

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-july-7-2021.html Andrew Bacevich.  After the Apocalypse:  America’s Role in a World Transformed. The premise of this book is quite simple: Regardless of whether our self-inflicted contemporary apocalypse leads to renewal or further decline, the United States will find itself obliged to revise the premises informing America’s role in the world. Put simply, basic U.S. policy must change. “Even before COVID-19 swept the nation, taking hundreds of thousands of American lives, cumulative policy failures ought to have made it clear that a national security paradigm centered on military supremacy, global power projection, decades-old formal alliances, and wars that never seemed to […]