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Russia Pulls Out Of Decade-Long Pact With US
Russia is pulling out of a decade-long pact with the US
to tackle drug crime, in the latest public sign of the deteriorating
relations between the two.
Washington had been helping to fund counter-trafficking operations,
particularly targeting the flow of heroin from Afghanistan, since 2002.But a statement published on the Russian Government website, and signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, now says Moscow has informed Washington that it is withdrawing from the deal because it "does not address today's realities and has exhausted its potential".
Teaching The Levees: An Exercise in Democratic Dialogue
How could the most powerful nation in the world seem so ill-equipped to handle a hurricane and its aftermath in a region where violent storms are a predictable seasonal occurrence?
September 1, 2005, President Bush told Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” In response, many residents of New Orleans, a city with longstanding concerns about the safety of the levees, cried foul (Fromkin, 2005).
One of the central assumptions of the “Teaching The Levees” curriculum, funded generously by the Rockefeller Foundation, is that as American citizens, we are all engaged in the project of sustaining and perhaps even refreshing democracy in every age.
Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River
( One point which seems unmentioned in most coverage is the replacement of a professional responsive agency - FEMA - by a bureaucratic kludge mismanaged by Homeland InSecurity. )
Protecting Society From Flood Damage
Listen to Nature and Accept Her Adamant Plan
How best to rebuild after a long-awaited disaster... part II
The Myth of Purifying Fracking Water in Saudi America: The Competition Between Food, Drink and Energy Needs
The fracking technology being used is relatively new and inadequately regulated. The trillions of gallons of water already used contain about 400 billion gallons of toxic additives. The US has no established technology or infrastructure that can recover potable water from the enormous magnitude of this existing and projected future deadly waste. Present disposal methods cannot ensure long-term isolation from the environment.
On Nov 8, 2012, The United Nations General Assembly was told that drought anddesertification affected one third of the earth's surface and about 1.5 billion people globally.
In the US, the effect of drought on energy production is comparable only to the effect of drought on farming. In drought areas, farmers compete with frackers for water from investor-owned water utilities. Farmers lose.
Eric Goldstein, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Pavlus:
Sometimes the interests of private ownership are inconsistent with the concept of preserving our water resources in the public trust for future generations. And the potential clashing of those interests is why these questions have been raised about whether for-profit companies ought to be running public water supplies.
The 14 Fossil-Fuel Projects Poised to F*ck up the Climate
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Arctic drilling Check Canadian Tar Sands Check Hydrofracking Check Bad news for each of these projects – especially from water pollution. Global Warming ? Thanks for making yourself look ridiculous. Even if Monckton’s cost benefit analysis was taken seriously as the route to debunking alarmism ( flogging a premise well past any possible rational causation ) , the clear origin of the IPCC UN bureaucracy spin driving a spurious environmental consciousness and false ‘analysis’ will ensure continual failure of opposition to polluting filth by engaging in irrelevancies.
“Are we really going to put at risk tens of thousands of existing jobs in fishing and tourism, the watersheds and the internationally renowned Great Bear Rainforest for a couple hundred jobs promised by Enbridge?” asks Caitlyn Vernon, coastal campaigner with Sierra Club B.C.
The $273 Billion Question: Enbridge and the Northern Gateway Controversy
“Are we really going to put at risk tens of thousands of existing jobs in fishing and tourism, the watersheds and the internationally renowned Great Bear Rainforest for a couple hundred jobs promised by Enbridge?” asks Caitlyn Vernon, coastal campaigner with Sierra Club B.C.
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