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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com A Letter To Chevron’s CEO: Your Business Is Creating A Climate ‘Incompatible With An Organized Global Community’ Posted by jon on 6 December, 2012 David Fenton From: David Fenton To: John Watson, CEO of Chevron Dear Mr. Watson, I’m the one who asked you about global warming at the Council on Foreign Relations last week. I accused you of being in denial. I’m afraid your answer proved it.John Watson, Chevron CEO (Image: file) read more Speechless in Gaza Posted by jon on 6 December, 2012 Joshua Brollier GAZA CITY—Dr. Majdi Na'eim worked for eight consecutive days at Al-Shifa Hospital throughout Israel’s “Pillar of Cloud” operation in the Gaza strip.  With hundreds of wounded pouring into the emergency room, there was no time for him and many of his colleagues to even leave the hospital.  On the final and one of the most brutal days of the assault, Israel targeted Ni’ma tower in Gaza City.  Dr. read more A Carbon Tsunami in Doha Posted by jon on 6 December, 2012 Amy Goodman DOHA, Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign guest workers here at the opulent Qatar National Convention Center all pass under an enormous spider, a 30-foot-high cast-bronze statue called “Maman,” by the French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. It was chosen by the emir’s wife, and snapped up for a reported $10 million. read more FCC May Give Murdoch a Very Merry Christmas Posted by jon on 6 December, 2012 Bill Moyers Michael Winship Until now, this hasn’t been the best year for media mogul Rupert Murdoch. For one, none of the Republicans who’d been on the payroll of his Fox News Channel — not Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin — became this year’s GOP nominee for president.Rupert Murdoch (Photo: AP Photo/Tony Avelar) read more The Fiscal Hoax Posted by lauren on 5 December, 2012 Peter Hart The biggest story in Washington is about something that doesn't really exist: the so-called ”fiscal cliff.” This manufactured panic is all about politicians and corporate interests getting things they want — things that don't have much to do with the ”crisis” anyway. But instead of challenging this spin, big media outlets are playing along. read more Mother Nature Belongs at the Bargaining Table Posted by lauren on 5 December, 2012 Jill Stein As the highly scripted stagecraft of the presidential campaign fades from the headlines, there's a new show in Washington. ”Fiscal Cliff” stars President Barack Obama, who urges Republicans and Democrats to agree on a ”grand bargain” that would soften the economic shock of the impending across-the-board tax and spending cuts. But that bipartisan handshake would be nothing to celebrate. read more Why the World Bank Must Divest from Fossil Fuels Posted by lauren on 5 December, 2012 Daphne Wysham The World Bank’s latest report on climate change, “Turn Down the Heat,” warns that the planet is on track for a four-degree Celsius temperature rise by 2100. Like many scientists, the bank fears that such an increase would be incompatible with civilization as we know it. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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