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Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Building Snowmen On Doomsday

January 29, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

Davos: $100 billion in Europe could have been better spent on renewable power plants if there were “better cross-border coordination and bigger power cables between countries.” Update: Some of our oligarchs are worried.

Peru: Recently we celebrated Maxima Acuna de Chaupe’s major legal victory against the mining company. Of course, this cannot go unpunished, so a local “police and [Yanacocha Mine Co.] security contingent”—with no warrants—have prevented her and her husband from “attending to their farm” and actually threatened them when they protested.

Nebraska: TransCanada has filed eminent domain petitions against those landowners fighting to keep the pipeline off their properties (h/t wendydavis). It’s “just another step in the process” for them. Update: Hillary Clinton, in Winnipeg, “‘You won’t get me to talk about Keystone.’”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Australia, Ayotzinapa, Barack Obama, Boston, BP Oil, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, California, China, Climate change, coal, Congress, Davos, Deepwater Horizon, Democratic Party, Doomsday Clock, earthquakes, Egypt, energy, England, environment, Exxon Mobil, fracking, gas, Great Barrier Reef, Hillary Clinton, hydraulic fracturing, Iran, Iraq, iron, Irving, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Pipeline, KeystoneXL, Kosovo, Larry Hogan, Lisa Murkowski, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, mining, Montana, Nebraska, Nigeria, North Carolina, Norway, ocean, oceans, offshore drilling, oil, oil trains, OPEC, Peru, Peter DeFazio, Republican Party, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shell Oil, South Africa, Switzerland, Texas, United Kingdom, Yellowstone River

Justifying War: “Just” Wars (Part 2)

November 24, 2014 By Ron Fullwood 1 Comment

President Obama has said that he and other Americans are weary, fatigued of war. That may well suit his own thinking, but I think American’s weariness is more than just fatigue at the presence of conflict; it’s an exhaustion with the justifying of it all.

Author Herman Wouk put it best, in the words of Julien Benda, a character in his book, ‘The Winds of War.’ He wrote: “Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.”

Barack Obama, in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, actually used that occasion which celebrated peace to lay down justifications for war; ‘Just Wars’ he called them. The new president wrapped his militarism in a blanket of history in his acceptance speech in Oslo. He spoke with the detachment of a professor lecturing students about a “living testimony” to the “moral force” of the teachings of King and Gandhi; a U.S. president who just happened to be commander-in-chief over dual, bloody occupations.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: 9-11, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, extraordinary rendition, Gandhi, genocide, George Orwell, George W. Bush, GITMO, Guantanamo, history, Human Rights, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Julien Benda, Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, Osama bin-Laden, Oslo, peace, September 11, The Winds of War, War, World War II

A Poet’s World Tour 1: Norway, Nigeria & Russia

September 18, 2014 By Walter William Safar Leave a Comment

Ideas make the world go ’round. Today, I am more than ever convinced that ideas and imagination are more valuable than oil and gas, and I’m not talking just about shares, but about that most important human segment, which is spirituality. Like knowledge, ideas and imagination makes a person complete, in the sense of mind, […]

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: BP, capitalism, energy, Gazprom, Moscow, Nigeria, Norway, oil, Plato, Poet's World Tour, poetry, politics, Putin, religion, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Shell, Siberia, Socrates, Vladimir Putin

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