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Fracked Earth News: Boston’s Hot Ocean Blizzard

February 17, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news, including:

New England: Off the coast of New England, sea surface temperatures “are flashing red, showing an extreme warm anomaly.” That’s a direct, immediate link to the recent record snowfall in Boston. Expect more.

California: Stunning state-wide fracking waste water test results: “concentrations of the human carcinogen benzene … [at] levels thousands of times greater than state and federal agencies consider safe.” ‘Significant’ benzene levels were in 98% of the water samples. Not only that, but CA “inadvertently” allowed frackers to inject their “flowback water into protected aquifers containing drinking water.” LA Times says “halt new operations.”

Peru: Oil contamination by Argentina’s Pluspetrol in the Peruvian Amazon so upset indigenous people that they “stormed a military base being used by Pluspetrol as a storage area.” Pluspetrol is packing up and leaving Peru—and the government “is investigating the illegal use of firearms by police during the demonstrations.”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Alberta, Amazon, Antarctica, biomass energy, Boston, BP, BP Oil, Brazil, Burlington, California, Canada, cap and trade, Charles Pierce, Chicago, Climate change, Congress, ConocoPhillips Alaska, eminent domain, energy, England, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FBI, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels, fracking, France, gas, geoengineering, global warming, gold, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Houston, hydraulic fracturing, hydroelectric, IEA, Illinois, India, intelligence, International Energy Agency, Kanawha River, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL North, Koch Brothers, labor, labor rights, Libya, LyondellBasell, Massachusetts, National Petroleum Reserve, Nebraska, Nepal, New England, nuclear, nuclear energy, oceans, Ohio, oil, oil prices, oil trains, Ontario, Panama, Pasadena, Pebble Mine, Pennsylvania, Peru, petcoke, poaching, Rahm Emanuel, refineriess, renewable energy, Rutgers University, solar, solar power, strike, Tom Wolf, TransCanada, union, unions, United Kingdom, United Steelworkers, United Steelworkers Union, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Bureau of Land Management, USW, Vermont, West Virginia, wind power, Wisconsin

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: The Warming Oceans

February 10, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

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

Worldwide: They’ve got things so bollixed up that, even though it appears global warming has slowed a bit, that’s on Earth’s surface. Deep down in the oceans, the warming trend continues, most markedly in the southern Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Gulf of Mexico: Plans afoot “to enlarge the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 56 square miles to 280. Yes!

Israel: Illegal sand mining is “a major source of income for organized crime figures, especially … in Israel’s south.” It also erodes coastal areas, thus threatening local wildlife. Five arrests so far this year; 20 last year.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, activism, Alaska, Alberta, Algeria, Arctic, biomass, BP, Brazil, California, Canada, Charlie Hebdo, China, Climate change, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, electricity, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FBI, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, France, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, hydraulic fracturing, Iceland, Idaho, India, Indiana, Israel, Jerry Brown, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL, Louisiana, Lousiana, Maryland, mining, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, nuclear, Oakland, oceans, Ohio, oil trains, Oklahoma, Oregon, Panama, Pennsylvania, Petrobas, Philadelphia, renewable energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, strike, strikes, surveillance, sustainability, sustainable energy, Tar sands, tarsands, Texas, Turkey, union, unions, United Steelworkers, United Steelworkers Union, Washington, water, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yucca Mountain

Broken Countries Policing: American Terrorism & Racist Violence

December 30, 2014 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

Despite being disproven as a strategy for reducing crime, the broken windows policing theory is still used in New York and throughout in the United States to crack down on disorder and nonviolent crime. To think that harsh enforcement of this type of “crime” would prevent serious crime like homicide and assault is patently absurd on its face. If you want to rid society of the most serious crimes, you should be enforcing the most serious crimes, like aggressive war.

Call it broken countries policing.

In the United States in 2014, you may be arrested for selling loose cigarettes, jumping turnstiles, dancing on the subways, and having small amounts of marijuana, but not for assassination, torture, anal rape, illegal surveillance, or invading, occupying and bombing sovereign countries.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Afghanistan, Agent Orange, agriculture, American imperialism, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World, apartheid, assasination, Barack Obama, Bill Bratton, Bill de Blasio, broken windows policing, Cambodia, cannabis, capitalism, CIA, CIA torture, class war, Convention against Torture, Corporate America, criminal justice, democracy, discrimination, Douglas Blackmon, drones, drug war, endless war, Eric Garner, Ferguson, George W. Bush, Global War on Terror, Grenada, Henry Giroux, history, homeless, Human Rights, I can't breathe, illegal occupation, immigration, injustice, Iraq, Jr., kill list, Korea, labor, Laos, Libya, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, Michelle Alexander, Military-industrial complex, Molotov cocktail, napalm, New York, New York City, New York Police Department, Noam Chomsky, Nuremberg Trials, NYPD, oppression, Pakistan, Panama, police, police brutality, poverty, prison-industrial complex, prisons, quality of life crimes, racism, rape culture, Raven Rakia, Riverside Church, Secret Wars, segregation, Senate Torture Report, Shadow Government: Surveillance, slavery, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, solidarity, Somalia, surveillance, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tom Engelhardt, torture, torture report, Truthout, United States Civil War, Vietnam, War, war crimes, war on drugs, We tortured some folks, Yemen

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