2 August - The View

Peruvian Amazon (Photo credit: roaming-the-planet)

English: Cacicus cela (Yellow-rumped Cacique) with nest, Amazon Rainforest, near Nauta, Peru, 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Year of Brazil in France Poster Collage (Photo credit: alexdecarvalho)

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest (Photo credit: CIFOR)

English: Cacicus cela (Yellow-rumped Cacique), Amazon Rainforest, near Nauta, Peru, 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Igazu falls - Brazil (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

Mother Jones (magazine) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Robert Reich

The economy is barely moving (1.7 percent growth after almost five years of the dumps is pathetic, and today's jobs report is almost certain to disappoint) for three reasons: (1) the vast middle class is still shrinking -- the median wage continues to drop -- so it lacks enough resources to buy what the economy is capable of producing, (2) congressional regressives continue to get austerity budget cuts that reduce aggregate demand, and (3) Wall Street continues to amass power (the banks are now driving up prices for commodities like aluminum, copper, oil, and gas by cornering these markets). Nothing will fundamentally change until these three problems are addressed. Yet addressing them requires taking on the structure of economic power: Big corporations shedding workers and reducing wages, Wall Street turning the economy into a casino, the very wealthy seceding from the rest of the nation, and all of them bribing and intimidating Congress.

The President is not unaware of this, as his speeches over the past week on the widening inequalities that are devastating the nation suggest. But there's a yawning gap between his rhetoric and his ambition. His proposal to reduce corporate taxes in exchange for some infrastructure spending, his apparent support for Larry Summers as Fed chair, and his unwillingness to push a significant minimum-wage hike or say anything about the fast-food worker strikes, suggests that he lacks the confidence to back his words with actions.

NATASHA FROM RUSSIA

Golden Horn Bridge, Vladivostok

The Medical System Kills: FDA Approved Drugs Kill Over 100,000 People Annually

• Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper

  WTF?! How can this be???

  

  American Cops in Canada: Where is the National Debate?

  www.huffingtonpost.ca

  Armed American police officers will now be able to stop Canadians, in Canada, inspecting, checking and asking questions. The Conservatives will tell us that an armed American cop in Canada is all about trade, jobs and security, not sovereignty. If this is 

  
  

  Four Ex-EPA Administrators, All Republican, Call for Urgent Action to Arrest Climate Change

  The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 26 minutes ago

  You'll probably recognize some of their names - Willam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. Over the past 43 years, each of them served a Republican president as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In an op-ed to the *New York Times*, they say that their message transcends political affiliation, "*the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally."* They were blunt and to the point:* * *There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues ... more »

  Action needed to stop 'climate deniers'
  from winning the information war

   the environmental movement is seriously losing the battle with the climate change deniers. According to an April poll by Pew research, only 33 per cent of Americans say that global warming is a very serious problem. Only 42 per cent agreed that the warming was mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels.

  Censorship comes to Australia

   a Big Brother Super-Regulator to censor not just the newspapers and TV, but websites, personal blogs, and even what you say on Twitter!

  On the Misinformation about WattsUpWithThat from the Society of Environmental Journalists

  The Next Energy Revolution

  Forbes HT Robert Zubrin's Merchants Of Despair Reveals Racism And Genocide Cloaked In Green Camouflage

  Climate Lessons 

  "They wanted to be as loud as possible to arouse our fears, now – when the whole issue becomes more and more suspicious – it is in their interest to stop any public discussion. This is the reason why they try to pretend that “the science is settled”, that the debate is over. We should not let them do it."

  Vaclav Klaus, 2012 ( http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/3104)

  

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  Additional Confirmation From IPCC: CO2 Emissions Impact On Temperature & Climate Change Is Trivial

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  Not a Lot of People Know That

  Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans' Email Data

  July 22, 2013 | Mother Jones

• Brazilian Soldiers and Native Tribespeople Are Clashing in the Amazon

  July 17, 2013 | VICE

• Repsol to Drill for Oil in Amazon Rainforest in Peru

  July 1, 2013 | The Guardian

• Brazil's Hydro Dams Could Make Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions* Soar

  July 1, 2013 | GlobalPost
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  ESTEE'S SKY WATCH IN VICTORIA B.C. and Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.

  

  Video shows every oil pipeline spill in US since 1986

  www.treehugger.com

  A group called The Center for Biological Diversity put together this time lapse video documenting every significant 

  STEE'S SKY WATCH IN VICTORIA B.C. shared a link.

  

  No more free sun: Arizona's biggest power utility wants to tax solar

  www.treehugger.com

  Arizona's biggest power utility, Arizona Public Service (APS), has announced their intention to implement what would effectively be a tax on the sun.

  Enenews

  Businessweek: U.S. plutonium facility “might blow up, or, as they like to call it, experience a ‘criticality event’” — “450 billion gallons of industrial and radiological contaminants dumped directly into soil” — Threatens water supplies for millions across Pacific Northwest ‪#‎Hanford‬
  
  http://enenews.com/businessweek-u-s-plutonium-facility-might-blow-up-or-as-they-like-to-call-it-experience-a-criticality-event-450-billion-gallons-of-industrial-and-radiological-contaminants-dumped-dir

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