Daily Archives: October 8, 2023

2023-10-08: News Headlines

350 Marin, 350 Bay Area (2023-10-08). Saturday 11/4: #ClimateCrisis: No Costco Mega Gas Station in Novato March & Rally. indybay.org Rowland Blvd – Park and Ride parking lot | Novato, CA 94945 | RSVP for exact address details, please…

Ed Rampell (2023-10-08). Nuclear Power Plant is Ground Zero in SOS — THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME. counterpunch.org In the ensuing interview Jim Heddle references a "nuclear revival," a phenomenon which has also recently been occurring in different mediums. Christopher Nolan's all-star epic Oppenheimer dramatizes the creation of the atomic bomb and the fallout from it. Steve James' A Compassionate Spy chronicles espionage conducted by the Manhattan Project's youngest physicist at Los Alamos. Oliver Stone's documentary Nuclear Now argues in favor of nuclear energy as a supposed solution to the climate emergency. Janice Haaken's new film Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance looks at the downside of thi…

Isaac Nellist (2023-10-08). 'The Disposables' puts a sci-fi spin on life on a temporary visa. greenleft.org.au Isaac Nellist reviews a new ABC production about the struggle of refugees living on temporary visas, climate change and the importance of community.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-10-08). Climate crisis has displaced 43 million children in six years. plenglish.com United Nations, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) The climate crisis has forcibly displaced 43.1 million children in 44 countries over the last six years, according to estimates by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Mill Valley Seniors for Peace (2023-10-08). Friday 11/3: Mill Valley: Power Up for Climate Solutions Sidewalk Rally. indybay.org Intersection of Camino Alto and Miller Ave | Mill Valley, CA…

Mill Valley Seniors for Peace (2023-10-08). Friday 11/3: Mill Valley: Power Up for Climate Solutions Rally. indybay.org Intersection of Camino Alto and Miller Ave | Mill Valley, CA 94941…

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-08). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

350 Marin, 350 Bay Area (2023-10-07). Saturday 11/4: #ClimateCrisis: No Costco Mega Gas Station in Novato March & Rally. indybay.org Rowland Blvd – Park and Ride parking lot | Novato, CA 94945 | RSVP for exact address details, please…

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-10-07). Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings. indybay.org Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum — which in Latin means "Praise God" — is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment.

Carlos L. Garrido (2023-10-07). China and the Purity Fetish of Western Marxism. orinocotribune.com By Carlos L. Garrido — Oct 4, 2023 | The stakes of the imperialist West's New Cold War against China are as great as they can get. This means that the Western left's role as controlled counter-hegemony and left-wing delegitimizers of socialist states — a role ideologically grounded in their purity fetish outlook — is as dangerous as it can get. In our current geopolitical climate, all progressive forces in the West should unite against the US and NATO's anti-China rhetoric and actions. Unfortunately, what we find from large portions of this Western left is parroting of state-department narratives…

Editor (2023-10-07). "Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering." Scientists alarmed as September smashes temperature records. mronline.org Over the northern hemisphere summer that has been dominated by floods, fires, and unrelenting heat, with temperature records being regularly smashed, climate scientists have become increasingly alarmed.

Editor (2023-10-07). 'Inexcusable': U.S. Slammed for Refusal on Global Green Climate Fund. scheerpost.com

Ediz Tiyansan (2023-10-07). Global temperatures in September break record. america.cgtn.com The month of September was abnormally hot for the global average. | It was the fourth consecutive month to beat its own record for hottest average temperature ever recorded. That's according to Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which collects data globally. The on-going El Niño phenomenon is partly to blame, but many scientists are astounded by the amount of increase in global average temperatures in September. | More communities are now starting to feel that urgency through unusually extreme weather events and catastrophic disasters.

Jacob Johns, Backbone Campaign. (2023-10-07). Jacob John's Call For Justice And Unity. popularresistance.org On Thursday, September 28, 2023, a harrowing and racially motivated incident occurred while members of the united states climate action network, members of local Tewa tribes, various Pueblos, Indigenous and Hispano community at large and Española/Rio Arriba County citizens came together for a spiritual convening/ceremony to continue to pray for a favorable resolution against the reinstallation of the Don de Oñate monument in front of the Rio Arriba County Offices. Invoking prayers from the future to weave a bond of spiritual unity, Jacob Johns (Akimel O'otham and Hopi) a community supported organizer and member o…

Mill Valley Seniors for Peace (2023-10-07). Friday 11/3: Mill Valley: Power Up for Climate Solutions Sidewalk Rally. indybay.org Intersection of Camino Alto and Miller Ave | Mill Valley, CA…

Mill Valley Seniors for Peace (2023-10-07). Friday 11/3: Mill Valley: Power Up for Climate Solutions Rally. indybay.org Intersection of Camino Alto and Miller Ave | Mill Valley, CA 94941…

Nathan Hudson-Peacock, Lynne Jones, Gareth Morgan, Chris Newman, Honey Smith (2023-10-07). Correspondence] We need a public health campaign on climate change. thelancet.com In April, 2023, hundreds of health professionals from 26 different groups travelled to London, UK, to lobby the Department for Health and Social Care. We were watching as Dame Parveen Kumar and then Fiona Godlee took the stand to explain to the crowds why we were there: to call for a climate public health campaign.1…

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-10-07). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Speak Out Socialists (2023-10-07). Saturday 10/21: Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Everything to Lose and a World to Win. indybay.org 2727 Event Space, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 | CAN'T JOIN IN-PERSON? JOIN THE EVENT VIA ZOOM | TINYURL.COM/OCTOBER-TH-2023…

Zbigniew Charnas (2023-10-08). Forgotten Mountains. Why Kilimanjaro, Tibet, Himalaya, Greenland Are So Warm? indybay.org Counting from the altitude temperature gradient, the warming of Kilimanjaro's summit — where the snows have just disappeared and the glacier melted — we get warming over a century by about 5 *C. That is, it is four times higher than on average on the Earth's surface at the same time. Global warming on the Earth's sea and land surface of about 1.5 *C for the period 1900 — 2023 is not adequate indicator to the all 3D warming process. The Earth is not flat. The adequate for global warming-vapouring process is the surface virtually hanged three-four kilometers over the sea level line and placed in h…

Zbigniew Charnas (2023-10-07). Forgotten Mountains. Why Kilimanjaro, Tibet, Himalaya, Greenland Are So Warm? indybay.org Counting from the altitude temperature gradient, the warming of Kilimanjaro's summit — where the snows have just disappeared and the glacier melted — we get warming over a century by about 5 *C. That is, it is four times higher than on average on the Earth's surface at the same time. Global warming on the Earth's sea and land surface of about 1.5 *C for the period 1900 — 2023 is not adequate indicator to the all 3D warming process. The Earth is not flat. The adequate for global warming-vapouring process is the surface virtually hanged three-four kilometers over the sea level line and placed in h…

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2023-10-09). MVP Construction Halted In National Forest Due To Pipeline Resistance. popularresistance.org Peters Mountain, VA — On Saturday morning 10/7, pipeline fighter Mickey locked themself to a sleeping dragon blockade on the Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in the Jefferson National Forest. A banner at the site read, "Defend the Forest Everywhere!" Mickey prevented tree clearing on the mountain for the full day. Around 8 PM on Saturday, Mickey was extracted and arrested. They were charged with 3 misdemeanors and bail was set at $2,500. | Mickey stated, "The same thing is happening everywhere right now. Greedy corporations and politicians dirty the water and air for profit, then tell the people it's for their…

David Skripac (2023-10-07). Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). China criticizes Japan's renewed discharge of contaminated water. ecns.cn China expressed strong dissatisfaction with Japan's initiation of the second round of the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, which started on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2023-10-07). Citizen groups worldwide protest Japan's 2nd round of dumping nuclear-contaminated water. ecns.cn More citizen groups worldwide have taken to the streets in recent days to urge the Japanese government to stop its toxic move of dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean as Japan began a second round of dumping on Thursday.

Robert M. Schwartz, Labor Notes. (2023-10-07). Does Your Employer Have Illegal Rules On The Books? popularresistance.org On August 2, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), now controlled by Democratic appointees, issued a game-changing decision known as Stericycle. The ruling enables unions to effectively challenge company rules that intimidate or chill workers from engaging in protests, picketing, demonstrations, and other legitimate union activities. | Marvin Kaplan, the one dissenting Republican board member, bitterly complained that the new standard returns the board to "a bygone era… when the Board rarely saw a rule it did not find unlawful." | Stericycle, a Pennsylvania medical waste disposal company whose employees ar…

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