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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.

 

The Dongria Kondh are just one of many tribes in India.
The Dongria Kondh are one of many tribes in India. Jason Taylor.

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.

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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

T
racey 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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