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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #137, JULY 24, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-137-july-24.html RESISTANCE (5)Steve Dunn.  2007 Early Warning: “Minimizing Global Warming.” (Dick).Bernard Connaughton.  XR v. Citibank.Dick.  Population Connection.JAKE JOHNSON.  Greenpeace v. EU Planet-Warming Pollution.GELF.  New Book, Putting Out the Planetary Fire. Early Warnings of Climate Change  Steve Dunn.  “Driving Home: 4 Steps Toward Minimizing Global Warming and Achieving Energy Independence.”   The Humanist Sept.-Oct. 2007.    Recently I heard a participant of a climate panel complain about the rising temperature: “Why weren’t we warned?”  Well, scientist James Hansen warned Congress in 1988; the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began its studies eventually calling upon thousands of scientists in 1990 resulting in […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #136, JULY 17, 2023

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http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-136-july-17.htmlArt Hobson, Leaving FF in the Ground.Kenny Stancil.  Methane Leaks from Gas As Bad as Coal.Kendra Pierre-Louis.  Hollywood Avoids CC.Kyubin Kim.  CC? Change? Catastrophe? Chaos? “Global warming credibility gap.Will the promised goals be met?”Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu   NWADG, 11 July 2023.           Humankind has finally achieved the first goal required to prevent disastrous global warming:  Civilized people finally recognize this as a real threat caused by fossil fuels and deforestation.  Just as the cigarette industry knew the danger of their product but lied about it, the fossil fuel industry knew the dangers of global warming by 1980 and devoted the next […]

Stories from the white house afterthe CUP was nixed

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Long long ago before covid, a friendly homeless guy named Jerry started camping in the yard of an old white apartment house on Government Street. It was a quiet place, next to the National Cemetery and across the street from the sale barn where the neighbors were mostly cows. One of the tenants asked the landlord if Jerry could stay, and they all struck up a friendship. They were friends for a long time, until the tenant got sick and died. But Jerry and the landlord are still friends. Then covid came. With it came a lot of wild and crazy things. Nobody could go […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #134, JULY 12, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-134-july-12.htmlJuan Cole, From Militarism to Invading Ourselves.Roots Action.  Unrestrained US Military Spending.WBW’s Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism conference September 22-24. OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, JULY 15, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Jeffrey Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, two urgent petitions, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War.  Sandy Lee-Shirley, Abel Tomlinson, Dick Bennett, and more. Here is the conclusion of Cole’s analysis of the Bush, Cheney, Rice admin.’s lying, illegal, cruel, atrocious invasion of Iraq […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #135, JULY 10, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-135-july-10.html Terrifying Tuesday.Global Heat, Greenland ThreatMichael Mann’s New Book, Our Fragile Moment “’Terrifying’: Tuesday Was Hottest Day Ever, Breaking Record Set Just 24 Hours Earlier.”  July 5, 2023. Data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows that the average global temperature reached 17.01°C, or 62.62°F, on Monday—making it the hottest day ever recorded. The record lasted just 24 hours.   On Tuesday, the global average temperature peaked at a new all-time high of 17.18°C as regions worldwide—from Asia to Africa to the U.S. South—reeled from dangerous heatwaves.  READ THE FULL STORY  Climate change studies by the IPCC and policymakers show […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #133, JULY 5, 2023

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 Joe Lauria.   “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.” Chris Hedges.  “They Lied….”                Editors.  Monthly Review.  A Socialist Disarmament Strategy. Joe Lauria.  Special to Consortium News.  “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.”  July 6, 2023. Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine.  (Forwarded by E. San Juan, Jr.) AMERICAN EMPIRE, ANALYSIS, HISTORY, INTELLIGENCE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAGATE, UKRAINE, WIKILEAKS The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine.  There was no other cause, according to this version, other than […]

Remarkable Tiny Home Village for Formerly Homelessin Austin

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Community First Village 2020 Video Tour This week’s video is a backgrounder about the beginning of Community First Village. It’s been around for over 20 years and is now getting ready to expand again. The nonprofit that runs Community First Village is Mobile Loaves and Fishes. MLF started a food truck project to feed the several thousand of Austin homeless 20 years ago and then got into the housing business. Founder Allan Graham says “We want to empower the community around us into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. We achieve this vision through Community First! Village by taking […]