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Berto Jongman: Linking Climate, Food Prices, & Revolution

Chinese Drought, Wheat, and the Egyptian Uprising: How a Localized Hazard became Globalized Did climate change play an indirect role in the political upheavals that rocked Egypt in 2011? Absolutely, says Troy Sternberg. As he sees it, a once-in-a-century drought in China dramatically reduced global wheat supplies and sent prices skyrocketing in the world’s largest …

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Sunny: KBR & Halliburton Potentially Liable for Iraq Toxic Burn Pits, Court Rules 57 Lawsuits Can Proceed

KBR and Halliburton Can Be Sued For Iraq Toxic Burn Pits, Court Rules by Fatima Hansia, CorpWatch Blog April 17th, 2014 KBR and Halliburton – two major U.S. military contractors – can be sued for the health impacts of trash incineration on U.S. soldiers who served in the war in Iraq, according to a new court decision …

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Berto Jongman: Nature is Priceless — Economy is a Sub-Set of Nature, NOT the Other Way Round

Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world? Those who reduce nature to a column of figures play to an agenda that ignores its inherent value – and seeks to destroy it George Monbiot The Guardian, Monday 21 April 2014 George Orwell warned that “the logical end of mechanical progress is …

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Yoda: True Cost Economics Model from Foundation Earth

Toward A True-Cost Economic Model: Cheater Economics, Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival Over the next century communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather instability. Extreme weather events are ecological spasms often driving economic spasms and regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasms proliferate. Far from being prepared, …

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Yoda: Super-Capacitors to Store and Release Energy

Unethical, energy policies are. Repressed, possibilities are. Ultracapacitors Made of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene are High-Functioning, yet Cheap Using two one-atom-thick materials, scientists have created a high-functioning yet cheap ultracapacitor. The creation of the ultracapacitor was made possible after mixing graphene flakes with single-walled carbon nanotubes. This groundbreaking device is actually an energy storage device …

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Jon Ramer: Cowboy Indian Alliance (CIA) Rejects Keystone Pipeline and Unites to Protect the Sacred –Video and Protest in DC 22 April 2014

Greetings! I hope this finds you well. There is a story of “unprecedented unified action” unfolding as unlikely parties have come together to protect and restore our sacred Mother Earth. First Nations, Native Americans, and their allies, in the form of ranchers, farmers, landowners, lawyers, educators, activists, environmentalists, faith and spiritual leaders and others are teaming up …

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Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News.  Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …

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