Feb 10 2013
Idle No More movement fizzles out online, analysis finds. By Natalie Stechyson, Postmedia News — February 10, 2013 5:56 PM — Note that this Post is mostly about “Fizzling out Online” and a new #OBGA Web Site Feature that I hope will make this a more interesting place that does not “Fizzle Out” — I …
Feb 10 2013
Bill Moyers Essay: When We Kill Without Caring from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. I’m Bill Moyers. This week, the New York Times published a chilling account of how indiscriminate killing remains bad policy even today. This time, it’s done not by young G.I.’s in the field but by anonymous puppeteers guiding drones by remote control against …
Feb 09 2013
Sunday, February 17, 11:30 a.m. Golden Gardens Park (8498 Seaview Pl. NW) We will take a crowd picture with our NO Fossil Fuel Exports signs and send to Gov. Inslee and Pres. Obama. At noon we will form a walking train and walk along the beach, wearing red no coal export t-shirts. Along the way …
Feb 09 2013
Andrew O’Hehir wrote this wonderfully articulated piece that SALON published this morning, with salient commentary on both John Brennan’s confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee and the troubling Justice Department “white paper” spelling out the legal justification for the drone killings of American citizens. The article’s name asks a question answered with …
Feb 07 2013
http:// This YouTube short video is in the Mother Jones article below but deserves a special place on this page. 350.0rg is planning a large rally in Washington D.C. this month on the 17th. It is a rally against the Keystone/XL pipeline but really against all fossil fuel extraction. In our local region it is about moving oil and coal …
Feb 06 2013
The Image above shows a map of Florida after a 20 meter rise in sea level. More than half of Florida would be be under the sea, along with the Bahamas. An article by Chris Mooney | Thu Jan. 31, 2013 3:02 AM PST | was published in Mother Jones 6 days ago and is being widely republished. You …
Feb 04 2013
Some of you may be aware of what is going on, but we understand that some of you were unable to come to our information meeting, and so we wanted to catch you up. We finished our 10th session on January 28th and didn’t make much headway. We continue to voice our opposition to …
Feb 03 2013
Ralph Schwartz from the Bellingham Herald wrote this article that appears on the Front Page of the Sunday Herald Occupy Bellingham’s next chapter: Once highly visible, group quietly focuses on issues http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/02/03/2862382/occupy-bellinghams-next-chapter.html Trolls are all over the Comment Forum and their venom can be somewhat dissapated if those reading this Post provide their own thoughts as comments on …
