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Wordle 1,509 4/6OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #242, AUGUST 4, 2025Wordle 1,509 4/6

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-242-august-4.html Inside Climate News (ICN) 7-26-25 David Schwartzman on What’s stopping a transition to renewable energy? This week on Yale Climate Connections July 25 – 31, 2025   Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism     The deadliest floods in U.S. history     ‘It’s not over’: An open letter to David Suzuki This week’s radio episodesA warming climate means more mosquito bites     Waste from forest thinning gets new purpose in Northern California     Virtual power plants could transform electricity grids     Robotic machine helps rescue wood from the scrap heap     How […]

Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial coming up August 10

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7:00 pm at Omni. Respond of the Facebook event please. More info there! Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration 2025 Both Harmonia and Geoff Oelsner will be performing their warm and healing music. Dr. Michael Anthony, UA Dept of HIstory, will tell the story of the Titan II missile explosion in Damascus, AR and how it relates to nuclear war. Dr. Anthony says: “The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was an engineering marvel. Tested in 1961, the ICBM could deliver a nine-megaton nuclear device (600 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) 5500 miles and accurately strike within a one-square-mile target. The […]

OMNI HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE ANTHOLOGY 2025 #2AUGUST 4, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance.html What’s at Stake:  Just before and during the early 20th century, the Western powers expanded their colonialism into S. E. Asia and the Pacific.  The US took Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.   The French took IndoChina; the Dutch Malaysia.    Japan began a war against eastern Asia.    In 1941 the US and UK blocked imports into Japan critical to empire.   On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan, Italy, and Germany.  In 1945  the US destroyed two Japanese cities […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #240, JULY 30 , 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/war-watch-wednesdays-240-july-30-2025.html Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance 2025World Beyond War.  Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments.FCNL: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expanded OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments World BEYOND War        To: The presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States From: Add your name here! We, the people of good will, of […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #241, JULY 28, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-241-july-28.html Union of Concerned Scientists.  Defend Science.News from Inside Climate News Weekly 7-26-25.Jennifer Clapp.  Titans of Industrial Agriculture.  “…Take Action to Defend Science.“  Union of Concerned Scientists.   Dr. Gretchen Goldman action@ucs.org  7-72-25. Dick,Danger Season—the period between May and October when the United States and its Caribbean territories experience their worst climate impacts—is here in full force. In recent weeks, communities in Texas, North Carolina, and New Mexico have been ravaged by climate-accelerated extreme weather events. The devastation is truly heartbreaking.  In the face of disasters like these, agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the […]

HIROSHIMA -NAGASAKI ANTHOLOGY 2025 July 31, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-anthology-2025.html What’s at Stake: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) https://disarmament.unoda.org › wmd › nuclear › tpnw  The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a United Nations treaty that aims to prohibit all activities related to nuclear weapons, including development, testing, production, and possession. It was adopted on July 7, 2017, and entered into force on January 22, 2021, after receiving 50 ratifications. The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively ban nuclear weapons, marking a significant step towards their elimination.  Key Provisions: Prohibition of […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #240, JULY 30 , 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments World BEYOND War A logo with a world map AI-generated content may be incorrect. To: The presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States From: Add your name here! We, the people of good will, of all walks of life, living on all continents and professing different creeds and religions, direct your attention to the threat of an all-out nuclear war that can erupt very easily either due to deliberate actions of any nuclear-weapons state or because […]

Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza

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UN org UN Human Rights Counci / Sérine Meradji Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, makes remarks at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. 26 March 2024 Human Rights There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.  Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, entitled ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, during an […]