tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18278742011-11-30T01:56:13.581-08:000zone Layer CakeLet them eat cake she said, and like the pushy ignoramous behind you in the grocery line, forced her way to the head of the line and voted for the candidate most likely to comply with the needs of the Global Oligarchy. Hole in the ozone layer? Well, maybe there is one but it certainly doesn't indicate that we're actually polluting ourselves right off the face of this planet. At least not the 350 of us who actually own things. If weather continues to improve, we'll be able to play golf anywhereRealo!noreply@blogger.comBlogger1301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1166233153348916062006-12-15T17:20:00.000-08:002006-12-15T17:39:46.040-08:00Tracking the Hole in the Ozone Layer Back in June of 2001, as the military Junta began to take hold in Washington, key scientists were dismissed from both the NOAA and EPA as Bush prepared to reverse himself on the issues of Global Warming and greenhouse gases. Government websites were stripped of data that has not since been replaced. Ozone layer data was removed from the NOAA sute during the David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1165572003966823392006-12-08T01:59:00.000-08:002006-12-08T02:00:03.980-08:00Dumpster Divers Needed for EPA Bailout "...the EPA has already destroyed documents. The Christian Science Monitor reports that "scientific journals worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were thrown in dumpsters in October." An EPA chemist told the Kansas City Star that one library was told to throw away journals. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility uncovered documents David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1130111898181472902005-10-23T16:57:00.000-07:002005-10-23T16:58:18.186-07:00Technorati Profile I dunno. For what it's worth, here's a technorati for you.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1084311033589867812004-05-11T14:29:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:29:44.293-07:00Break the Engagement with Unocal Unocal has won the first round in in a legal battle with some of their victims in Burma. Unocal had hired the Burmese army for security for their pipeline and facilities, and the resulting victims of rape and torture are trying to hold Unocal responsible. Their corporate website continues to promote what they call a policy of "contructive engagement" with Burmese David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1083866793584108912004-05-06T11:06:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:01:00.113-07:00Good and Bad Ozone The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere is beneficial -- it protects us from too much solar radiation. But ground-layer ozone is dangerous -- breathing it causes asthma attacks and makes things worse for people with emphysema, bronchitis and other lung diseases. more about ozone pollution David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1079909846787697792004-03-21T14:57:00.000-08:002004-03-21T15:00:03.686-08:00ALCOA Boasts of Genius in Protecting Ozone Layer PITTSBURGH (03-16) Alcoa announced today that its environmental achievements have earned its inclusion in the book, Industry Genius: Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer, written by Environmentalists Stephen O. Andersen and Durwood Zaelke. Authors Andersen and Zaelke looked for two things in their search for Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1079134511688157552004-03-12T15:35:00.000-08:002004-03-13T11:51:56.360-08:00Scandal is Our Way of Doing Business related to Peter Munk and Barrick Gold of Toronto: see April 23, 2001 archive Gabriel Resources (TSX: GBU), a junior Canadian mining company, intends to realize Europe’s largest open-cast mining development in Rosia Montana; entailing, amongst other, the involuntary resettlement of over 2000 people. From its onset the development has been beleaguered withDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1075584275996449862004-01-31T13:24:00.000-08:002004-01-31T13:27:13.356-08:00False Basis of Iraq War Precipates International Scandal "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction because it was the one issue everyone could agree on." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz special coverage David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1075410016819202772004-01-29T13:00:00.000-08:002005-06-12T21:04:32.766-07:00 Breaking News has been superceded by DOGSPOT where you can also post your own.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1067552145420019302003-10-30T14:15:00.000-08:002005-06-12T21:33:09.073-07:00Greenhouse Gases are OK with US Senate The 55-43 roll call by which the Senate rejected legislation to reduce carbon monoxide emissions from industrial smokestacks. Voting "yes" were 36 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 1 independent. Voting no" were 10 Democrats and 45 Republicans. See where they stand - complete roll callDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1067117033901394052003-10-25T14:23:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:06:14.956-07:00BP Amoco Passes The (greenhouse) Gas "...starting a journey that will take the world's expectations of energy beyond what anyone can see today." Pretentious stuff for a company serving mainly oil and gas, with just a sliver of solar on the side. Make that Beyond Pretentious." Greenwash AwardDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1066333220193770092003-10-16T12:40:00.000-07:002003-10-25T14:16:49.940-07:00Do You Agree or Disagree? "There's no such thing as global warming - it's all natural climatic variation. And if there is a problem, it won't affect us much, and we can deal with the problems as they arise."YEAH RIGHT, THE GOLFING HAS BEEN PRETTY GOOD IN JUNO LATELY Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064005870664899392003-09-19T14:11:00.000-07:002003-10-04T17:12:18.766-07:00I think I'll keep a copy for myself, too.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064004990050258842003-09-19T13:56:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:56:29.413-07:00where did the Sierra club get their OZONE LAYER ANIMATION? From the site in the previous post - but oops - it's not there anymore! David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064004764490557132003-09-19T13:52:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:52:43.900-07:00can you find the hole in the ozone layer?David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064004539775011672003-09-19T13:48:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:48:59.246-07:00revenge of the ever-recurring OZONE LAYER ANIMATION ever since the residential selection of 2000, these links, created at TAXPAYER expense have been disappearing from the official US government sites where they belong.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064004379231729792003-09-19T13:46:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:46:18.733-07:00What's all the fuss about? an easy to understand explanation the the function of the Ozone layer as a global filter of ultra-violet radiation, how it's being depleted, why we should worry, and what we can do about it. David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1064001907584305552003-09-19T13:05:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:08:03.246-07:00all amazon watch related links will be moved to &nbsp&nbspFresh Green Blog time for a general cleanup and return to TOPICDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1063923817389078542003-09-18T15:23:00.000-07:002003-09-18T15:27:57.756-07:00From Amazon Watch, Sept. 10, 2003 Washington, D.C.- Today, the Inter-American Development (IDB) executive directors approved financing for the controversial Camisea fossil fuel project in the Peruvian Amazon. Camisea's critics contend that support to the project is paving the way for the indiscriminate destruction of one of the world's most pristine rainforests and threatens the physical Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-1063921013622116022003-09-18T14:36:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:08:17.316-07:00performers in Billings, Montana, Anchorage Alaska, and Salem, Oregon are trying to decipher the score to summer music. OK, eventually I'll post something on topic: which is the hole in there Ozone layer and related issues not considered to be problems by the present administration. Hey, if the peasants have bo bread just let them eat cake! OZONE LAYER CAKEDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-759062152002-04-27T15:37:00.000-07:002003-09-03T14:54:18.673-07:00Once again, Naomi Klein attempts to make sense of our fragmented global realities: "...in Washington D.C. last weekend... a demonstration against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was joined by an anti-war march, as well as a demonstration against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. In the end, all the marches joined together in what organizers described as the largest David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-750748252002-04-05T07:49:00.000-08:002002-04-05T07:49:04.080-08:00 "...We go to Ramallah hospital, ...where the Israelis attempted numerous times to go in and take who they wanted, but hospital staff and foreigners refused to let them in. Anyway, we went there to pick up our reporter and cameraman who were there to tape the burial of numerous martyrs. The reason they were being buried on hospital grounds was because there was no more room in the morgue. David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-114209722002-04-03T10:24:00.000-08:002002-04-03T10:24:39.986-08:001545: An ambulance has just come under fire in Ramallah trying to get around IDF tanks and internationals and medical staff were told over a loudspeaker to stay inside the hospital and then the IDF proceeded to open live fire on the hospital. A CBS news television crew was forcibly escorted out of Ramallah by the IDF. As a result, the remaining news crews in the area are concerned that they too David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-113820582002-04-02T09:52:00.000-08:002002-04-02T09:52:28.980-08:00"I and my friends - international peace activists from Italy, France, the US and other countries, some of them of Jewish origin - have come here to act as a human shield in case of any IDF attempt to break in. The government should know that among those determined to face the soldiers unarmed and bar their way is also an Israeli from Tel-Aviv." Neta GolanDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-112667722002-03-29T18:42:00.000-08:002002-03-29T18:46:57.000-08:00Release the Mindo Activists Ecuadorian activists and their international allies remain in custody today after being arrested late Monday afternoon in the Mindo cloudforest region where local residents had maintained a forest occupation since Jan 2 to block the passage of the country's new OCP oil pipeline. Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-112664852002-03-29T18:30:00.000-08:002002-03-29T18:46:37.000-08:00Camisea Gas Field Project on the Urubamba River in Peru The international consortium responsible for the project has a 40 year concession to exploit gas and a 30 year concession to extract Camisea oil. This lengthy duration of this project is likely to guarantee ongoing environmental damage to the delicate ecosystems of Peru. Construction of the gas pipeline will begin in December 2003.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-112404422002-03-28T22:35:00.000-08:002002-03-28T22:35:11.273-08:00Linus Pauling At Berkeley interviewed by Harry Kreisler in 1983 President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy held a dinner for recipients of the Nobel Prize. On the day before, and in fact on the day of the dinner, my wife and I had demonstrated outside the White House against the bomb tests. When we came through the reception line, Mrs. Kennedy said, "Do you think it is right, Dr. Pauling, to march back David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-107214912002-03-13T21:14:00.000-08:002002-03-13T21:14:51.220-08:00A droll letter to the editor in Salem Oregon's "Statesman Journal" finally breaks the ice, comparing the Bush administration to "a fascist regime out of science fiction".Get it while it's hot. More about this one soon.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-89716212002-01-23T09:24:00.000-08:002002-01-23T09:24:04.200-08:00the start of Bush's War "Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington...The Taliban refused to comply but the serious nature of what they were told raises the possibility that Bin Laden, far from launching the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon outDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-81557422001-12-23T19:47:00.000-08:002001-12-23T19:47:32.756-08:00"The US and British governments say they are "reconciled to civilian deaths" in their war. They cold-bloodedly admit they will be killing people who had nothing to do with the attacks in New York and Washington. There is no sense of "humanity", of "mercy" or of "justice" in that - just the plainest hypocrisy." The best text I have read about why we need to mobilize to STOP BUSH'S WARDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-81514102001-12-23T15:35:00.000-08:002005-06-12T21:18:13.866-07:00I'm beginning to practice the art of website defacement by starting on my own sites. My preference is bold red type right under the banner ad. Next thing you know, those brainwashed "war corespondents" on pubic radio will be calling this sort of thing "Terrism". Whoever brainwashed them obviously couldn't pronounce the word properly. Time to shake this country loose from the mass hypnosis that isDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-81388122001-12-22T22:59:00.000-08:002003-09-18T14:55:57.576-07:00From the Bush Terrorist Archive Department "the CIA officially acknowledged... that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA. The new report was issued almost 24 years to the day after the murders of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, who died on Sept. 21, 1976, when a David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-73955142001-11-25T15:55:00.000-08:002001-11-25T15:55:31.910-08:00Fear and Loathing "What is equally obscene is, the concentration seems to be focused entirely on the Wrong Kind of Sekurity, the bugging of our phones, our computers, and our private thoughts and feelings. Our other security, that upon which our very lives depend, is nonexistent, a spiderweb patched together with Faerie Dust, an illusion. It's a powderkeg lit on both ends, and with all-too David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-72042112001-11-17T17:16:00.000-08:002003-09-18T14:44:53.866-07:00Over 50 Oregonians arrived in Columbus GA last night to join the annual protest and vigil at the School of the Americas, uncertain as to whether a permit had been granted for their planned procession. In a late-night email, Eugene activist Donna Frasier reported: "Judge Faircloth granted the permit... saying if the Army needed to be protected from this group of nonviolent people then we really David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-58630992001-09-23T10:30:00.000-07:002001-09-23T10:30:48.000-07:00Explosives Planted In Towers The collapse of the buildings appears "too methodical" to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures, said Van Romero, vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-58628552001-09-23T10:12:00.000-07:002001-09-23T10:12:10.750-07:00"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-58625882001-09-23T09:54:00.000-07:002001-09-23T09:54:12.473-07:00The Emperor Walks Naked, cont. "...the Bush administration is using the tragic nightmare of murder in New York, which itself occurred under circumstances suggesting the complicity of Washington's covert forces, to create international hysteria sufficient to drag NATO into the strategic occupation of Afghanistan and an intensified assault on the former Soviet Union."David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-58625092001-09-23T09:48:00.000-07:002001-09-23T09:57:26.000-07:00The Emperor Walks Naked, cont... "...Washington is playing with the possibility of a war which would make the horror that occurred last Tuesday at the World Trade Center, or even the much larger-scale horror of the U.S. terror-bombing of Yugoslavia, look like previews of hell."David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-57151882001-09-15T23:47:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:16:03.420-07:00War For Big Oil? Unocal stands to directly benefit from a US takeover of Afganistan. That's why we must "rid the world of evil" Time to remove the cowboy from the whitehouse before he commits 50,000 American lives and billions of dollars for the sake of his beloved oil money.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-57083302001-09-15T14:22:00.000-07:002001-09-21T20:13:48.000-07:00AFL-CIO Focuses on Relief Efforts, ..continued "...We remain steadfast in our conviction that the policies of the World Bank and the IMF must change if they are to foster a fair and just global economy that works for working families everywhere.  We will continue to call for new rules for the global economy that protect people and the planet, not just multinational corporate interests, and toDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-57073062001-09-15T12:59:00.000-07:002001-09-21T20:13:11.000-07:00 AFL-CIO Focuses on Relief Efforts, Calls for Cancellation of IMF Meeting "Today I have sent a letter to James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, and Horst Köhler, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, calling upon them to cancel or postpone the annual meeting of the Bank and the IMF scheduled for Washington at the end of September.  As I said to them in my letter, I David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-56430792001-09-12T10:19:00.000-07:002001-09-12T10:19:55.370-07:00INNOVATIONS IN CROWD CONTROL WEAPONS "there is a need to consider halting the use of peppergas in Europe until independent evaluation of its biomedical effects is undertaken. Special Agent Ward the FBI officer who cleared OC in the USA was found to have taken a $57,000 kickback to give it the OK. Other US military scientists warned of dangerous side effects including neurotoxicity and a recent David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-54699552001-09-03T23:02:00.000-07:002001-09-03T23:02:02.256-07:00"...Thus we accuse the police of rioting, acts of terrorism and violations of basic human rights such as the freedoms of expression and assembly. The police must be made accountable for these crimes. The police attacked because Power is afraid of us, the rebel communities - people who won't submit to the neoliberal command." White Overall StatementDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-53449332001-08-28T10:50:00.000-07:002001-08-28T10:50:05.393-07:00Haïti Progrès August 15 - 21,  2001 "...Corruption and infiltration of the PNH (Haitian National Police) is no surprise. Since it replaced the FAdH in 1995, the PNH was designed, formed and trained by U.S. government agencies, which insisted on integrating many former Haitian soldiers(from the corrupt Duvalier regime that the US allegedly opposed, ed.)." .be the news where you can read and David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-53253242001-08-27T12:37:00.000-07:002001-08-27T12:37:24.890-07:00"It seems that any forces launching attacks against the Haitian government become the darlings of the Dominican authorities, in particular the army, which acts in close concert with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. These agencies of Washington seem to be conferring on the Dominican Republic the role of sub-regional policeman. Although Haitian Foreign Minister Joseph Philippe David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-53118082001-08-26T19:38:00.000-07:002001-08-26T19:38:25.640-07:00.be the news annnouncements of literature and software you can use online... ...a new box on the left with a link to the William S. Burroughs classic, "THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION"...and a new webmail interface that will allow you to log on to any server.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-52882892001-08-25T01:58:00.000-07:002003-09-18T14:59:17.450-07:00again ( link temporarily down, 09-18-03 -ed.) Once again, the basics of FTAA, in case if all the tear gas and rubber bullets have blurred your memory... "The goal of the FTAA is to impose the failed NAFTA model of increased privatization and deregulation hemisphere-wide..."David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-52879592001-08-25T01:10:00.000-07:002001-08-25T01:10:06.286-07:00Toledo's Win In Peru Examined "...18.5% of those eligible did not vote, although voting is mandatory in Peru..." The people's choice? As soon as we explain the background, we plan to explore this much more thoroughly.David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-52862372001-08-24T22:25:00.000-07:002001-08-24T22:25:08.016-07:00I'm actually down to my last $20.00, but I can still post to BLOGGER and even to my own interactive news site thanks to friends of mine who are allowing this errant behavior on their Mac Performa 475! Indymedia is too much of a high-bandwidth affair for this machine, so .be the news, and join me in low-rent oblivion at my fast php4 portal, while it lasts -:(David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-52646552001-08-23T19:40:00.000-07:002001-08-23T19:40:04.200-07:00Some news from Chad and Agatha, who will be helping with a live webchat from Indonesia with a factory worker suffering under the boot of globalization summary and background later today Webchat with an Indonesian Worker at http://www.behindthelabel.org might still be going on if this posts soon enoughDavid Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41990592001-06-22T17:02:00.000-07:002001-06-22T17:02:17.313-07:00Ozone Layer: Background For those of you who doubt the reality of ozone layer depletion and it's consequences, consider the recent reports of high UV levels in the Pacific Northwest. According the standards of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration, the UV levels measured in Eugene, Oregon were high enough on Tuesday, June 18, to cause skin damage with only 15 minutes of exposure. A Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41987582001-06-22T16:32:00.000-07:002001-06-22T16:32:57.920-07:00Auto Air Conditioners and the Ozone Layer: Background From the EPA website: "The ozone layer is being depleted over Antarctica (the so-called Antarctic ozone hole), but also to a much lesser extent over North America, Europe, and other populated areas. A depleted ozone layer allows more UV-B radiation to reach Earth, harming human, animal, and plant life in many ways."Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41654772001-06-20T18:56:00.000-07:002001-06-20T18:56:08.673-07:00FUCK THE FTAA Today, American Citizen Lori berenson was convicted in a Peruvian court in an instance of double jeopary. As you would expect, the Free Lori website is extremely busy today, so you may want to try the new site above for a copy of her final statement to the court.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41355972001-06-18T22:33:00.000-07:002001-06-18T22:33:52.450-07:00The Inquisition in Lima in 1736... and in April 2001: Lori Berenson (Liberacion - 26 April 2001) by Eduardo González Viaña, Peruvian novelist and Professor at Western Oregon University "...A military court condemned her, almost without listening to her, for 'treason against the fatherland'despite being a US citizen. The civilian court that currently judges her emphasizes her ideological David Roknichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41046902001-06-16T21:00:00.000-07:002001-06-16T21:00:58.570-07:00Indymedia Sverige - webcast news Here's a shining example of the American influence on worldwide police oppression. The same thing has happened again and again in US cities like Eugene, Iowa City, Seattle, and Chicago, where local police are temporarily replaced by faceless, masked, "Federal" thugs without badges or identification whose duty is not to protect the rights of the local citizens, Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41045572001-06-16T20:48:00.000-07:002001-06-16T20:48:32.430-07:00Indymedia Sverige - nyheter There is still a lot of confusion about how many people were shot at by the police on thursday night here in Gothenburg. Neither is is it clear what the condition of these people is. Many mainstream media, national and international, report on three shootings while the official pressrelease from the police in Gothenburg states that there was only one shooting. ListenRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-41045432001-06-16T20:47:00.000-07:002001-06-16T20:47:19.693-07:00Indymedia Sverige - nyheter 14.40 Despite very heavy rain around 25 000 people, possibly more, joined the demonstration "For Another Europe". This is one of the biggest radical demonstrations in Sweden in a long time. The organisers are very satisfied with everything, the atmosphere was very good and the police ha a very low profile. Many of the speeches during the demonstration has been Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-40411802001-06-12T17:35:00.000-07:002001-06-12T17:35:59.540-07:00From Portland Indymedia "Portland revolutionary John Paul Cupp faces trial on June 20, 2001 for running afoul of Portland police limits on allowable political speech. Please attend the trial at the Multnomah County Courthouse at 1021 SW 4th, currently assigned to room 528 beginning at 9:00am. ...the judge has conducted the proceedings with the appointed attorney, shouting down John Paul when Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-39100232001-06-03T11:36:00.000-07:002001-06-03T11:36:59.723-07:00Exxon hasn't cleaned up" Exxon has boasted of spending $1.5 billion cleaning up the spill, but 20%--2.5 million gallons--of crude oil remains in the Sound, either coating the mussel beds or in tarry deposits on the shore. Exxon's cleaning crews only mopped up 15% of the spilled crude. The remainder either evaporated or broke down. America's largest oil company soon faced suits from the federalRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-39070202001-06-03T03:30:00.000-07:002001-06-03T03:30:26.856-07:00The Fight for the Americas "I said they would create a global royalty in which politicians and corporate leaders around the world have more in common with one another than with their own citizens, and that they would start to use their security forces against those citizens to protect their corporate interests. And this has happened. I told them that their policies would alienate huge numbers Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-38533092001-05-29T22:02:00.000-07:002001-05-29T22:02:50.706-07:00Protest the Summit of the Americas Some of the Protest Victims in Quebec * Missing in Action – Jaggi Singh – Victim of a state kidnapping by undercover police at the demo - he is still in Jail. - Eric Lafferriere, 28, will never speak again. Two rubber bullets severed a nerve in his left arm and crushed his larynx last Saturday. Eric has undergone a tracheotomy and awaits further surgery.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-38249562001-05-27T21:45:00.000-07:002001-05-27T21:45:46.170-07:00Haiti Progres May 23, 2001 - English section More news from turbulent Haiti that you won't see elsewhere. "United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan lent tacit support to Haiti's Democratic Convergence (CD) opposition front this week in a report to the U.N. General Assembly, released May 21. In the agnostic, innuendo-laden language so favored by U.N. diplomats, Annan portrayed the CD as Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-34024572001-04-27T20:01:00.000-07:002001-04-27T20:02:06.060-07:00Gestapo Gag Order Lifted "... The order did not specify what acts were being investigated, and the Secret Service agent acknowledged that the IMC itself was not suspected of criminal activity. No violation of US law was alleged. It is not clear whether federal law allows the Attorney General ever to approve such an investigation of US press entities to facilitate a foreign investigation. Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33843172001-04-26T15:19:00.000-07:002001-04-26T15:19:29.663-07:00A Primer on Global Warming "French mathematician Jean Fourier first described in 1827 how Earth's thin atmospheric blanket warms the earth..."Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33842382001-04-26T15:14:00.000-07:002001-04-26T15:14:32.880-07:00Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States Basic Information from the DOERealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33738052001-04-25T22:03:00.000-07:002001-04-26T14:35:49.906-07:00from alt.politics.greens 4/25/001 message ID tec1551g5h0j2a@corp.supernews.com Published on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer FBI Raids Indy Media Center Stolen Security Plan for Quebec Meeting Was Put on Internet Here by Paul Shukovsky Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade summit in Quebec City were stolen from a car there over the Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33289912001-04-23T05:27:00.000-07:002001-04-23T17:03:49.500-07:00Dalton Camp Lecture "...They ought to say what they believe. And what they believe, you see, is what we call neo-liberalism. They really do believe that Ayn Rand was a saint. And they really do believe that the individual comes first. They really do believe in first-come, first-served. They do believe in winner-take-all, that's their theology...Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33289652001-04-23T05:23:00.000-07:002001-04-25T22:07:27.543-07:00Dalton Camp Lecture "...Then, there was a letter. Just let me read you the letter (dated September 1996): Dear President Suharto, I wanted to thank you for your thoughtful letter. I hope my travels soon bring me back to Jakarta so that we might meet again. Earlier this week I was in Elko, Nevada for a meeting of the Barrick Gold Corporation's International Advisory Board (to which I am a Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33288112001-04-23T05:04:00.000-07:002001-04-23T05:08:22.806-07:00CORPORATE DISSEMINATION SERVICES INC (Canadian NEWS) "... It is our conclusion that criminal offences have been committed in relation to Bre-X and members of the public in Canada and elsewhere... 4. That additional interviews be carried out of current and former Bre-X consultants; and 5. That a copy of this Interim Report and the Appendices be provided to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and to Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33287402001-04-23T04:51:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:55:35.670-07:00Happyclown of The Month [February '97] "...with the help of Peter's good buddy Adnan Kashoggi, who later gained international notoriety as a high-rolling arms dealer in the Iran-Contra affair. From this point, there was no turning back for this great man with the golden touch. By 1983, Peter was buying gold mine after gold mine, quickly making Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. the second-largest Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33287012001-04-23T04:44:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:49:13.843-07:00The Corporate Web "...Both Mulroney and Bush are believed to have made phone calls to Indonesian President Suharto on behalf of Barrick. (Mulroney's Barrick stock options are worth an estimated $2.6 million.)"Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33286812001-04-23T04:42:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:46:47.326-07:00CNN - Canadian, U.S. firms team up to mine huge Indonesian gold deposit - Feb. 17, 1997 After the discovery, Bre-X's stock shot from 36 cents to over $200, but that dramatic rise was cut short last November when the Indonesian government ordered Bre-X to form a partnership with Barrick, North America's largest mining firm.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33286642001-04-23T04:38:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:43:14.700-07:00FIRST FAMILY FEUD "...Barrick is also known for the luminaries on its board, including former U.S. President George Bush and ex-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney..."Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33286332001-04-23T04:32:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:37:14.070-07:00S. G. R. MacMillan: For the defence of serious criminal cases "..Peter Munk, CEO of Toronto's Barrick Gold, the world's second-largest gold producer...enlisted former U.S. President George Bush to lobby Suharto, the Indonesian ruler..."Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33285462001-04-23T04:17:00.000-07:002001-04-23T04:21:32.340-07:00Bush Family Gold Mine Scandal "... In mid-April, a team of senior executives from Barrick Gold Corp. arrived at a rugged mining camp in Peru known as Pierina. Their mission was to survey Barrick's efforts to build one of the world's lowest-cost gold mines some 14,000 feet up in the Andes, where 6.5 million ounces of gold, worth $2.2 billion, have been discovered. The visit came at a time when theRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-33203122001-04-22T14:24:00.000-07:002001-04-22T14:28:58.583-07:00 ESPN.com - Page2 - NBA and the downward spiral of dumbness A spiral that goes straight Down at unholy speed is called a "Vortex," I think, and a spiral that whirls straight Up is called a "Tornado." They might appear to be different, but among scholars of Physics and Quantum Science, they are both the same thing. Is HST raving about an analogy to the race to the bottom(line) ?Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-32697522001-04-18T22:36:00.000-07:002001-04-18T22:39:28.216-07:00Haiti Progres April 18, 2001 - English section Regarding the rightward swing of Aristide and neo-liberal agenda: # "This week the Aristide government was seen skipping ever more merrily toward the neoliberal rainbow as it expressed delight to be participating in the "Summit of the Americas" being held in Quebec City on Apr. 20, where thousands of anti-neoliberal demonstrators are expected to Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-32421702001-04-17T08:42:00.000-07:002001-04-17T08:45:25.780-07:00Bernard White on BAI Takeover Media File Volume 20-2 "... This is a hostile corporate takeover. WBAI is now being run by the Pacifica Foundation with only a momentary illusion of local autonomy. A dangerous precedent had already been set when the foundation, in violation of procedures clearly defined in our bylaws, terminated the station manager without any consultation with the paid and unpaid Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-32355792001-04-16T20:40:00.000-07:002001-04-16T20:43:08.070-07:00Haiti Progres April 11, 2001 - English section Thousands marched on the streets of Ouanaminthe in Haiti and Dajabon in the Dominican Republic in a day of solidarity and reflection last Thursday. The delegation learned also of the closing of the Haitian-Dominican border by Haitian and Dominican truck drivers protesting violence by the US-backed Dominican military.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-29121582001-03-23T22:20:00.000-08:002001-03-23T22:35:32.116-08:00East Timor Action Network/U.S. Homepage Mission Statement "The East Timor Action Network/U.S. (ETAN) is a grassroots human rights organization working in solidarity with the people of East Timor. ETAN supports human dignity for all East Timorese by advocating for women's rights, democracy, sustainable development, sound environmental practices, and comprehensive social, legal, and economic Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-28548202001-03-20T01:22:00.000-08:002001-03-20T01:36:18.590-08:00 US Gov't Scientist Fired for Web Post "Well, I have been fired for posting to the internet a single web page with some maps showing the distribution of caribou calving areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)...Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-28358352001-03-18T17:42:00.000-08:002001-03-18T17:56:08.286-08:00 Political crisis deepens in Jakarta while repression ... "An approach based on locking up peaceful activists and intensifying military repression will seriously undermine prospects for a peaceful solution to problems in these provinces," Amnesty International said. "These patterns of repression in both Aceh and Papua are an indictment of a reform process which has all but stalled in the face ofRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-28345112001-03-18T15:39:00.000-08:002001-03-18T17:50:09.766-08:00 ICEM Update "One worker died in the explosion, one has been hospitalised in a serious condition, with little prospect of survival, and a further nine workers are missing and have already been given up for dead by the Petrobras management," the FUP said today..." March 16, 2001 BLOG WORLD Lots of recent updates, more coming tonight and tomorrow.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-28127012001-03-16T19:25:00.000-08:002001-03-16T19:37:05.643-08:00 0zone Layer Cake needs your vote to win the ratings game at Bloghop - Vote Green!Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-27969412001-03-15T16:46:00.000-08:002001-03-15T16:59:35.270-08:00The folks at the Nike plant in Beaverton Oregon were warned not to speak with former soccer coach Jim Keady when he arrived in Oregon last week. Friday, he and Leslie Kretzu appeared at the University of Oregon, which happens to be the Alma Mater of Nike's CEO, where they announced the start of a new project, "Nike Shareholders For Justice" Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-27963962001-03-15T16:02:00.000-08:002001-03-16T19:41:52.000-08:00NetSlaves: Comments "...people trying hard to make their passions a reality in a new medium with no editorial control, no old boy's club, no Ivy League mind-games, and no limits. While they work on their passions, other people openly and shamelessly take advantage of them. Sites are being co-opted and shut down for the minor sin of saying something bad about the advertising provider... the eFrontRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-27795662001-03-14T14:14:00.000-08:002001-03-14T14:27:45.483-08:00 Bush Breaks Explicit Promise to Reduce Harmful Emissions to Appease Right Wing and Special Interests Bush is reversing his campaign promise, undercutting his EPA Administrator and flying in the face of settled climate change science to help out his biggest campaign contributors, the most far-right elements of his party and polluters,"Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-27560532001-03-13T01:57:00.000-08:002001-03-13T02:46:44.220-08:00Thanks, Jenn - Iran-Contra Criminals Appointed By Bush "...BUSH’S CHOICE for United Nations ambassador, John Negroponte, was the Reagan administration point man for the contra wars in Honduras during the early 1980s. Otto Reich, his nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, headed up the Reagan Administration’s so-called Office of Public Information during those Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-26951982001-03-08T15:04:00.000-08:002001-03-08T15:16:08.233-08:00 Interactive Journalism This is the temporary URL - create an account, post stories and comments. BE THE MEDIA ! Official kick off, April 1, 2001Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-26946512001-03-08T14:30:00.000-08:002001-03-08T14:41:38.156-08:00olympic living wage project 7:00 pm this evening, Thursday, March 8 100 Willamette Hall University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu will discuss how they lived in an Indonesian slum, starving on Nike wages. Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-26841492001-03-07T20:46:00.000-08:002001-03-11T11:35:58.623-08:00Protest.Net: Wear Scarfs To Demand Civil And Political Rights April 2nd! We all also know that during the Summit of the Americas, the 'authorities' are closing off a 3 square kilometer area of the inner old city of Quebec with 2 to 3 meter high chain link fences set in concrete highway dividers. This is to keep the heads of state and the 'corporate' contingent safe from the assembly and Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24930422001-02-22T21:27:00.000-08:002001-03-11T11:34:59.966-08:00The Mythical Liberal Press - Part Two 02-22-2001 Although I fully intend to take this discussion of media bias in an original direction, Let's first look at one of the concrete examples mentioned in the report I cited yesterday. This one is an example of the questionable influence of corporations on media programming - on the content of what we watch on a daily basis. And this is but one Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24928172001-02-22T21:06:00.000-08:002001-03-11T11:40:05.506-08:00The Mythical Liberal Press - Part One 02-21-2001 I've listened for too long while pompous blowhards continue to rail about the left wing media bias. They might as well be talking about Unicorns. The myth of left-wing bias in the American press is an easy target and ought to be debunked. But why doesn't that happen? Let's begin with a recent article from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24882072001-02-22T15:02:00.000-08:002001-02-22T15:03:57.853-08:00Who Is This David Horowitz? Part One 02-21-2001 Let's start with a quick look from the popular Time.com A mainstream view of David Horowitz - This brief article gives you the history of David Horowitz in a nutshell. "...Horowitz's slander wouldn't matter much if he spoke only for himself. But for the past three decades, Horowitz, 60, has been a conduit through which extreme political ideas gainRealo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24474912001-02-19T21:36:00.000-08:002001-03-11T11:50:25.386-08:00dkb ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CROWD LAUGHS, REPORTERS WISECRACK AS DATABASE OFFICIAL GIVES TESTIMONY I went to the hearing held yesterday (2/16) in Miami by the US Commission on Civil Rights -- very interesting to hear what people say under oath. The hearing included testimony from voters in South Florida, poll workers in Miami Dade, Palm Beach and Broward, and officials from all Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24217522001-02-18T00:39:00.000-08:002001-03-11T11:49:04.793-08:00ESPN.com - Page2 - Abandon all hope ye in Tampa ... and Washington "...They are both whores, because that is the nature of American Politics. They both have a designated Fool in the Family, because that is the nature of the Presidency. It is a necessary Lightning rod for criticism that would otherwise fall on the President & harm his approval ratings. Clinton had Roger, Carter had Billy & Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24210452001-02-17T22:47:00.000-08:002001-02-17T22:55:04.140-08:00Visit 2 of the worst web sites I have ever seen! The Silver Fox, keeper of Blogger's Nazi Archives presents - NAZI BLOG and if that's not enough abuse for your delicate sensibilities Have a Nice Day, Sieg Heil Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-24209992001-02-17T22:40:00.000-08:002001-02-17T22:48:13.480-08:00Thanks to "Johnny Asia" of alt.activism - Last night, one of the BBC channels in the U.K. aired an investigative piece on how Gov. Jeb Bush's administration carried out its operation to ensure that George W. Bush would "win" Florida. It still can be seen, however, at the BBC's Newsnight Web site The URL is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/palast.ram In Real Video An Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-23661502001-02-13T18:08:00.000-08:002001-02-13T18:14:48.980-08:00Greenspan stated today that his number one priority is the reduction of the national debt to zero, and that any tax cut should be conditional upon meeting debt reduction targets.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827874.post-23661162001-02-13T18:05:00.000-08:002001-02-17T22:41:31.516-08:00Now Paul O'Neill has changes his tune to sing in harmony with the occupation army of the Puppet administration - asking the Senate to hurry up and approve this unprecedented and absolutely ridiculous tax cut for the rich that will make it impossible to pay off the national debt. The interest on the national debt is the largest item of the budget.Realo!noreply@blogger.com0