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Acidification of Oceans
Even After World has Acted:  GOP candidates on climate change

Even After World has Acted: GOP candidates on climate change

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Touchvision | (Video News Report) | – – “What would happen to the committments President Obama is making at this week’s Paris Climate Conference if a Republican wins the 2016 election?” Touchvision: “The Republican candidates on climate change”

Humor
George W. Bush Cold Open - Saturday Night Live

George W. Bush Cold Open – Saturday Night Live

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Will Ferrell | (Saturday Night Live Video Spoof) | – – “President George W. Bush (Will Ferrell) announces he’s entering the presidential race and assesses the current crop of GOP candidates.” George W. Bush Cold Open – SNL

Geothermal
Sell that Coal Stock: The future belongs to Wind and Solar, COP21 or No

Sell that Coal Stock: The future belongs to Wind and Solar, COP21 or No

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Historically, the transition from one energy system to another, as from wood to coal or coal to oil, has proven an enormously complicated process, requiring decades to complete. In similar fashion, it will undoubtedly be many years before renewable forms of energy — wind, solar, […]

Iraq
Is the US Suddenly entering a Major new War in Iraq & Syria?

Is the US Suddenly entering a Major new War in Iraq & Syria?

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Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – The spreading influence of ISIS is forcing Washington into a strategic decision: escalate. Suddenly, and without almost anyone noticing, the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is developing and growing rapidly. Some elements are already clear enough: they include the expansion of ISIS-controlled territory in Libya, […]

Climate Change
Can Historic climate agreement protect the world's most vulnerable people?

Can Historic climate agreement protect the world’s most vulnerable people?

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The Tree | – – 195 countries reached across traditional divides today to unite behind the greatest moral challenge of our time and seal the deal on a historic climate accord. The Paris Agreement is an inclusive, ambitious, science-based deal that recognises the urgency and scale of action required to address climate change, and hastens […]

Islam-hatred
What Islamophobia and ISIL/ Daesh have in Common:  The Political Use of Fear

What Islamophobia and ISIL/ Daesh have in Common: The Political Use of Fear

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By Ian Buruma | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – There are many roads to political disaster: greed, hubris, the charisma of the demagogue, and, perhaps most dangerous of all, fear. When people panic, they can become hysterical, and hysteria often leads to mass violence. When politicians convince people that they are in […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh in the Digital Realm

Daesh in the Digital Realm

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By Michael Degerald | (History x ISIS) | – – In popular discussion of the Islamic State, several topics have received the vast majority of the attention. The group’s executions, treatment of women, their oil profits, and rumors about state sponsorship have all gotten large amounts of attention. Not far behind that is discussion of […]

Inequality
Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

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By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have reached a tipping point,” Pew Research Center says A closer look at the shift out of the middle reveals that “a deeper polarization is underway in the American economy,” says […]

Acidification of Oceans
Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here's What's going to happen to you and your children

Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children

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By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | – – At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At the time of publication, the latest draft text calls for the world to “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to […]

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