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Carbon Dioxide Output to Climb 3.6% This Year, 0.4% in 2011, EIA Says
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Friday, September 10, 2010 - 08:41 AM.
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. Carbon Dioxide Output to Climb 3.6% This Year, 0.4% in 2011, EIA Says
By Simon Lomax - Sep 8, 2010 9:54 AM PT Wed Sep 08 16:54:03 GMT 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-08/u-s-carbon-dioxide-output-to-climb-3-6-this-year-0-4-in-2011-eia-says.html
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from energy use will climb 3.6 percent this year, according to a forecast by the Energy Information Administration.
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India forms new tribal council in wake of Vedanta victory
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Friday, September 10, 2010 - 08:36 AM.
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India forms new tribal council in wake of Vedanta victory
by Survival International.
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Following the Dongria Kondh tribe’s groundbreaking successful defense of their mountain homeland, the Prime Minister of India has created a new committee for tribal rights. Led by the Prime Minister, the new ‘National Council for Tribal Welfare’ will review and guide India’s policies affecting the over 80 million tribal people living in the country. The council will bring together Ministers responsible for finance, mines, power generation, the environment, the elected heads of India’s tribal regions and others.
www.survivalinternational.org
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No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 01:38 PM.
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No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict
Daniela Estrada - SANTIAGO, Sep 8, 2010 (IPS) - The Chilean government is pushing through legal reforms in an attempt to bring to an end a nearly two month hunger strike by 34 Mapuche indigenous prisoners. But it is failing to address two critical aspects of the conflict: the lack of effective dialogue and a failure to recognise it as a political problem.
upsidedownworld.org
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THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS STATEMENT ON “INTERNATIONAL BURN A QUR’AN DAY” IN FLORIDA
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 09:14 AM.
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THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS STATEMENT
ON “INTERNATIONAL BURN A QUR’AN DAY” IN FLORIDA
September 9, 2010 – for immediate release CIC COUNSELS CANADIAN MUSLIMS AND WORLDWIDE MUSLIMS TO SHOW RESTRAINT: ALLAH TEACHES THAT TRUE BELIEVERS SHOW PATIENCE, FIRMNESS AND SELF-CONTROL (Qur’an 3:17) American Muslims are bracing for a difficult end to the holy month of Ramadan this week, in the face of very public plans by a small southern U.S. church and its pastor to burn copies of the Qur’an on Saturday, Sept. 11. The independent Florida-based “Dove World Church” announced earlier this month that it would burn the Qur’an to commemorate the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.
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The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened Don’t Tune In, It’s Not Important
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 07:48 AM.
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The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened
Don’t Tune In, It’s Not Important
By Juan Cole http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175292/ The Great Deluge in Pakistan passed almost unnoticed in the United States despite President Obama’s repeated assertions that the country is central to American security. Now, with new evacuations and flooding afflicting Sindh Province and the long-term crisis only beginning in Pakistan, it has washed almost completely off American television and out of popular consciousness.
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Obama's Mid East Peace Talks: a Circus to Distract
Posted by shamuscook on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 03:57 PM.
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Obama's Mid East Peace Talks: a Circus to Distract
Shamus Cooke- What a joke. President Obama surely knows there is zero chance that his Middle East peace talks will succeed, even with the deck stacked in his favor. All of the main actors are on the U.S. payroll: Israel, Egypt, and Jordan get billions in foreign aide, while the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has proven a pliable puppet for the U.S. while he is disdained by his own people.
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Lucius Walker, Leader of Pastors for Peace, Dies
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 08:31 AM.
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Lucius Walker, Leader of Pastors for Peace, Dies
CubaDebate - 7 September 2010 - The Reverend Lucius Walker died, this morning, of a massive heart attack in New York at the age of 80, CubaDebate was informed by sources from Pastors for Peace, the organization that he led.
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Sinopec Offshore Oil Rig Tilts, Traps Over 30 Workers
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 08:24 PM.
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Sinopec Offshore Oil Rig Tilts, Traps Over 30 Workers
September 07, 2010, 10:16 PM EDT
By Bloomberg News
(Updates with 17 workers rescued in sixth paragraph.)
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- An accident caused an offshore rig at China’s third-biggest oilfield to tilt to one side, throwing at least two workers overboard and trapping more than 30.
Valves at the No. 3 rig operated by China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. were shut after the accident at 11 p.m. local time yesterday, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement on its website, without stating whether any oil was spilled. Huang Wensheng, the Beijing-based spokesman for the company known as Sinopec, didn’t answer calls made to his office and mobile phone.
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LEADING ARTISTS SAY NO TO BLAIR'S TATE MODERN PARTY
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 02:25 PM.
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LEADING ARTISTS SAY NO TO BLAIR'S TATE MODERN PARTY
STOP THE WAR COALITION 07 September 2010 Email office@stopwar.org.uk Tel: 020 7801 2768 Web: http://stopwar.org.uk
Tracey Emin, Vivienne Westwood, Brian Eno and Katharine Hamnett are among the many artists and designers who are objecting to the Tate Modern art gallery hosting a party on Wednesday 8 September at which Tony Blair will be celebrating the publication of his memoir, A Journey. Stop the War's demonstration outside the gallery from 5.30, calling for no war criminals at the Tate Modern, will be joined by artists and other public figures.
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Gates Foundation invests in Monsanto
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 11:34 AM.
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Gates Foundation invests in Monsanto
AGRA Watch
Farmers and civil society organizations around the world are outraged by the recent discovery of further connections between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agribusiness titan Monsanto. Last week, a financial website published the Gates Foundation's investment portfolio, including 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock with an estimated worth of $23.1 million purchased in the second quarter of 2010 (see the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission). This marks a substantial increase from its previous holdings, valued at just over $360,000 (see the Foundation's 2008 990 Form).
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Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining speed
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Monday, September 06, 2010 - 10:09 AM.
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Nehemia Shtrasler - The sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge. Boycotts by governments gives a boost to boycotts by non-government bodies around the world. The entire week was marked by boycotts. It began with a few dozen theater people boycotting the new culture center in Ariel, and continued with a group of authors and artists publishing a statement of support on behalf of those theater people. Then a group of 150 lecturers from various universities announced they would not teach at Ariel College or take part in any cultural events in the territories. Naturally, all that spurred a flurry of responses, including threats of counter-sanctions. www.haaretz.com
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Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 03:20 PM.
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Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad
Lawrence Davidson (Media with a Conscience at mwcnews.net) - Back in October of 2005 the Western media, starting with the New York Times, mistranslated a speech by Ahmadinejad. The Iranian President had called for regime change in Israel, a practice American Presidents indulge in repeatedly in terms of countries like Cuba, Sudan, and Iran itself. In this case, Ahmadinejad’s statement that “the occupying regime over Jerusalem” will one day “vanish from the pages of time” somehow became a desire that Israel should be “wiped off the the map.”
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Underreported Struggles
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Friday, September 03, 2010 - 05:46 PM.
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| Underreported Struggles
Ahni - In this month's Underreported Struggles: Chile Court says it's OK to force feed
Mapuche political prisoners; More than 1,000 Indigenous people arrested for
mobilizing in Nepal; Women from San Juan Copala announce third peace
caravan; Enbridge gets a final notice of trespass from Wet'suweten Hereditary Chiefs.
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remembering Nuxalk hereditary chief Qwatsinas
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 06:13 PM.
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remembering Nuxalk hereditary chief Qwatsinas
From: Zoe Blunt <zoeblunt@gmail.com>
Devastating news. Members of the Nuxalk First Nation and their frien are remembering Nuxalk hereditary chief Qwatsinas (Edward Moody). He passed away August 31 in Bella Coola hospital from a malignant cancer
that was diagnosed only ten days earlier. He was 59 years old andspent decades fighting to defend the coastal rainforest. He is a greatspirit who is loved and respected by thousands.
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Guatemalan indigenous need rights protected, UN official says
Posted by heathertufts on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 02, 2010 - 09:12 AM.
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Guatemalan Indigenous Need Rights Protected, UN Official Says
Rick Kearns (Indian Country Today) - Due to human rights violations affecting the indigenous peoples of the country, Guatemala risks becoming “ungovernable” according to the U.N. official in charge of indigenous rights after a visit in June. These problems revolve around the lack of indigenous rights to prior consultation, as well as territorial and civil rights in Guatemala according to James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people.
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Say No To Tankers
Help protect the coast of BC's
Great Bear Rainforest
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| Thursday, September 02 |
| · | ISSUES REGARDING NUCLEAR ENERGY BEYOND THE LIABILITY BILL |
| Wednesday, September 01 |
| · | The People Create Thousands of Solutions to Confront Climate Change! |
| · | Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth |
| Tuesday, August 31 |
| · | REPRESSION IN HONDURAS CONTINUES, UNABATED |
| Monday, August 30 |
| · | Statement of the Pre-Congress ´Sacred Land, Poisoned Peoples´ |
| Sunday, August 29 |
| · | Obama to Escalate Slaughter in Yemen |
| Friday, August 27 |
| · | Climate-related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan |
| Tuesday, August 24 |
| · | Just Say No To "Certified Organic" Farmed Salmon |
| Saturday, August 21 |
| · | Minister tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands |
| Thursday, August 19 |
| · | Myths and Realities about 490 Tamil Refugees on MV Sun Sea |
| Wednesday, August 18 |
| · | Coalition Calls for the Halt of Radioactive Steam Generator Shipment |
| Tuesday, August 17 |
| · | Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods |
| Monday, August 16 |
| · | Radioactive Waste Gradually Disseminated into Everyday Items |
| · | The proposals of “Peoples Agreement” in the texts for the UN negotiations on climate change |
| Friday, August 13 |
| · | The Gulf at the Gas StationCan We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil? |
| · | Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism |
| Monday, August 09 |
| · | press conference by Ambassador Pablo Solon of the Plurinational State of Bolivia at the UNFCCC climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany (via UNFCCC website) |
| · | Bring Water Into Climate Change Negotiations |
| · | COP16 Mexico: Governments Must not err as thy did at COP15 in Copenhagen |
| Friday, August 06 |
| · | A Nuclear Gamble on the Not-So-Distant Horizon |
| Thursday, August 05 |
| · | Ecuador Signs Deal Not to Drill in Amazon Nature Reserve |
| Wednesday, August 04 |
| · | Encourage Rainforest Action Network’s New Leader to Work to End Primary Forest Logging |
| Monday, August 02 |
| · | Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force |
| Thursday, July 29 |
| · | U.N. Declares Water and Sanitation a Basic Human Right |
| · | The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War |
| Wednesday, July 28 |
| · | Dennis Kucinich: WikiLeaks gave us 92,000 reasons to leave Afghanistan PICK ONE! |
| · | ENBRIDGE: NO PIPELINE, NO TANKERS. |
| · | The Human Right to Water and Sanitation” |
| Tuesday, July 27 |
| · | Tuesday Vote Expected on War Escalation Funding |
| Sunday, July 25 |
| · | Venezuela Will Suspend Oil Shipments to U.S. if Attacked |
| · | RE: House Republicans and H. Res 1553 |
| · | Fallujah children's 'genetic damage' |
| Saturday, July 24 |
| · | Donate to Peace, Earth & Justice News |
| Tuesday, July 20 |
| · | 18TH ANNUAL FIESTA CUBANA |
| · | U.N.'s Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators |
| Sunday, July 18 |
| · | Big Oil Makes War on the Earth The Gulf Coast Joins an Oil-Soiled Planet |
| Friday, July 16 |
| · | Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body |
| Tuesday, July 06 |
| · | 'Save Us From These Bankers, Fast' |
| · | Stage-Managing the War on Terror |
| Saturday, July 03 |
| · | Obama's New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War |
| Friday, July 02 |
| · | The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die |
| · | U.N. Clears Final Hurdle to Create New Gender Entity |
| Tuesday, June 29 |
| · | Imminent Canada-India nuclear pact heightens tensions |
| · | Haida Gwaii Municipalities Unanimous in Opposition to Tankers |
| Sunday, June 27 |
| · | 20 police let rioters run amok and then struck back hard at all activists |
| · | The G8/g20 aftermath:Who are the real thugs |
| Friday, June 25 |
| · | G8/g20 countries condone the global colossal fossil country; Canada |
| Thursday, June 24 |
| · | G8/G20 Communiqué | Rejection of Failed System that Places Profits over Mother Earth and People |
| Wednesday, June 23 |
| · | Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on "Terror Support" |
| Sunday, June 20 |
| · | DECLARATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA - CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN IDRC, CANADA. |
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