We are all good people. We all have bad governments.
Time for good people to demand a True Green Energy Policy World Wide
(vid) Documentary: Howard Zinn on Civil Disobedience
A few quotes from the docementary:
"Non violence is not passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non cooperation, massive demonstrations, and sabotage as well as appeals to the conscious of the world, even individulas of the oppresive group who might break away from their past ."
"The law is made by very mortal people, very limited people, very opinionated people, and people who have very special interests."
You are the 99% - we are the 99%
"Non violence is not passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non cooperation, massive demonstrations, and sabotage as well as appeals to the conscious of the world, even individulas of the oppresive group who might break away from their past ."
"The law is made by very mortal people, very limited people, very opinionated people, and people who have very special interests."
You are the 99% - we are the 99%
The Weather Underground - Documentary about the militant faction of the Students for A Democratic Society 1970-1980
Two quotes from this documenmtary the first is from a Weather Underground member,
the second from Dr. Martin Luther King in turn quoting President John F. Kennedy:
"I cannot be non-violent in the midst of the most violent government in history."
"A government that makes non-violent revolution impossible,
makes a violent revolution inevitable."
Obviously this is an example of what not to do as far as injuring or killing yourself and innocent people. The not so obvious is that in american protests violence breaks out too early in the battle. Not enough people have taken their concerns to the streets with their families and without concessions from the government first. ~ clean electric
Three Month Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Today
Today is the three month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in america. Time magazine has named The Protester
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
Corporate media has lost its way. It tells us only what it's owners want you to hear. It no longer provides un-biased editorial and opinion, now is your chance to become a journalist and a politician yourself. Write commentaries about the articles you read and the videos you view, share your own opinions, ideas, and solutions. By compiling statistics of your ideas, opinions, and solutions a defined plan propsed by the majority will take form.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
As of Jan 2013 I had more than 5,000 politically active
FaceBook friends and I was off line most of 2013.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage
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The Occupy camps have shown people how "to break out of this conception that we're isolated." But "just occupying" has "lived its life," says the man who is the most revered radical critic of American politics and capitalist economics.
Chomsky gave his counsel answering questions in a small group after a speech Monday evening, December 12, in the 1000-seat Westbrook Middle School auditorium (a/k/a Westbrook Performing Arts Center), which was filled to capacity. The speech was sponsored by the University of New England's Center for Global Humanities.
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The Occupy movement's repression, which Chomsky decried, has a saving grace, he said: the opportunity for it to expand more into "the 99 percent" by engaging people "face to face."
"Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose," he suggested. "Tactics have a half life."
Much is at stake. An angry and frustrated population, as exists now in this country, provides "a combustible mix," he said, adding: "Look at Weimar Germany" — the economically and politically turbulent time in Germany in the early 20th century that led to the rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Chomsky's speech was entitled "Arab Spring, American Winter." In it, he presented the Occupy movement as the first popular reaction to a "vicious class war" waged against working people for over 30 years in the United States, just as the Arab Spring uprisings this year in the Middle East and North Africa were reactions to decades or centuries of repression by wealthy elites supported by the United States and other Western powers.
Greeted with a standing ovation, on top of his game at 83, he stood, in jeans and sweater, talking and answering questions for two hours in his always-even voice.
Riffing from one topic to another, Chomsky — who, an emeritus professor at MIT, also is known as the father of modern linguistics — demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of American foreign policy and history, citing stunningly revealing official documents chronicling our country's economic and military predations abroad.
He compared the rule of international elites over Middle Eastern, African, Latin American, and Asian countries to the rule of the rich 1 percent — it is often the rule of one-tenth of one percent, he suggested — in the United States.
Quoting Adam Smith, the 18th-century father of capitalist theory, Chomsky delved into the roots of the neoliberal soak-the-poor philosophy dominant worldwide. "We're essentially living in a nightmare" that the classical economists predicted, he said.
This nightmare's concentration of wealth "accelerates" political-campaign-money competition, he said, driving politicians into the arms of wealthy interests. One result: "The Democrats are now what used to be called moderate Republicans."
(Recently this reporter asked a prominent Augusta figure if he thought the Occupy movement would make Maine Democrats less like Republicans. He replied that the occupiers "don't finance the campaigns.")
Palma Ryan, 59, who is staying at the Occupy camp in Portland's Lincoln Park, said about 40 occupiers were at the speech. Her reaction to hearing Chomsky: "He is so validating. You leave saying 'yes, yes, yes!'"
Despite what counts in the Portland area as an enormous crowd, the daily press barely covered the event — commonly the case for Chomsky.
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Demand Government and Corporate Reforms To End The Use Of Fossil Fuels And Create A Green Energy Future World Wide
DON'T BE A ZOMBIE,
HELP PUT A NAIL IN THE COFFINS
OF POLLUTION EJACULATING VAMPIRES
Last I checked, we all have brains. I am of the punk rock generation in between the hippies and me"generations, followed by the x generation for those who need to label. Who are we now? I am sure that the people born after me think that myself, and the people who were born before me left you with nothing but a world that is hoplessly messed up in many many ways. so why not party because all is lost anyway?
This is what has happened to american government in my life time, the U.S. has become a fossil fuel empire world wide and Wall Street, The Military, and The Media are used to protect it. Add injury to insult and some people committed crimes in their sector, financial, military, and government like $100,000 a year salaried Washington D.C. politicians who have an additional $100,000,000 in personal wealth made from insider trading on Wall Street by cheating and not by being a true honest capitalist.
The corporations involved in these transactions pollute the earth, are exempted from EPA regulations, as with Natural Gas Drilling on U.S. soil, an industry exempted from the Clean Water Act by Dick Cheney who profits from the Haliburton company which is an International Military, Oil and Natural Gas contractor. The U.S. governement pays out cash in oil subsidies to highly profitable oil companies and politicians profit from the "success" of these companies. A Green Energy Economy is is not actively subsidized by our government nor is it encouraged by Wall Street Corporations.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/indonesian-mud-volcano-erupt-quarter-century/#ixzz1F39kAkdP
http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/aug08/article.html?id=nn_indonesia.html
http://englishrussia.com/2008/03/25/darvaz-the-door-to-hell/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/14/chevron-contaminate-ecuador
http://badgasgoodwind.blogspot.com/2011/06/bps-deepwater-horizon-disaster-is-not.html
Corporations sold mortgages and then profitted by betting against them. They shipped jobs over seas. Discuss this with your friends, and the list goes on. Corporations buy TV commercials and use them to tell you only what they want you to know. They even spin newsmedia into a commercial for their demigogary, which is within their right to opinion when reporting news, as the owners of the news corporations. This is a good example of why corporations should not have "personhood." The personal financial aspirations of a few are missrepresented as popular opinion by commercial media.
This is how America's leaders party to the end, they keep on doing what they are doing until it is all over. They are trying to convince us to let them get away with it, through lies, distraction and with impunity by order of the laws that they have written for themselves.
SINCE DECEMBER OF 2010 youth have been rising up in: Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Mirrocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Lebonon, not to forget China's Tienamen Square in 1989 and the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999. The Occupy Movement has made widespread dissention in America known.
Whatever happened to the love of which our human intellect bestowed
upon all of us to fight for justice in these and so many more battles:
An end to slavery, a woman's right to vote, the beginnings of equal rights America, an end to the genocide during WWII, an end to the Vietnam War and an end to so many other human inequities: Cambodia, Rowanda, Mogadishu and The Balkans, the confusion in Israel and Palestine, the isolation rof Cuba and North Korea .. workers rights, fail labor, coal mine safety. Are any of these things really won if they are forgotten, or are they just a part of the walk of shame. A walk of shame because our leaders have instigated and bullied their way into these conflicts, and a walk of shame because we allowed them to do it.
It is time for all those in America to step up and drive the final nail into the coffin of the pollution ejaculating zombies in world business and government which have exploited the world's resources to the brink of the very extinction of human kind and all that will perish with us.
Your family, your neighbors, and the rest of the world needs all Americans to join the struggle for a new Green Energy Economy Industrial Revolution with which to take planet earth and WE ALL whom are all custodians of it into the future. We must restore democracy in our own country as the voice of the people, in the spirit of the very foundings of democratic civilization upon the soil of our own country, and all of likewise peoples and founders of civilization world wide.
We must restore capitolism to the definition of Fair Trade, the very same principal that capitolism was founded upon. A civilized balance between personal wealth and acceptable minimumm quality of life standards. A balance created by a mix of "for profit" and "social programs". Forward thinkers who profit at the raising of quality of life in their community by providing jobs and tax dollars, and forward thinkers who use those tax dollars to build and maintain schools, fire stations, and hospitals, fight for clean air and clean water, and enough food to ensure that these civilized minimum quality of life standards are not only met for every man, woman, and child, but also increased as societies wealth increases.
The presence of every individual on earth today is a participant in the dawning of a new age. Terms like Fair Trade, minimum quality of life standards, food, housing, clean water, clean air and clean dirt no longer just apply to your neighborhood school, fire station, hospital, hardware store, Wal-Mart, gas station, and rhetoric from your local Mayor, they have gone global. We are one civilization. We all want the same things. Our hearts tell us what is civilized and what is not.
xoxoxoxox I love you. Pass it on.
Occupy Seattle Supporter Describes His Experience
Last night the Seattle cops confiscated about 125 tents and arrested 7 people. Some of the tents had backpacks and other personal belongings inside them including a list of phone numbers belonging to one of the Occupy Seattle Workgroups. Of the 7 arrested some have been released without charge and some have been held for booking.
You may not want to make an appointment to go down to the Parks Department Revolutionary Tent Storage Facility and reclaim your property because they will ask for your name and contact information in order to retrieve it (that is if you can find it and all it's parts) among the pile of tents that they tossed without care into the back of a few pickup trucks and without any regard whatsoever as to it's value to the owner. To make matters worse, they could be gathering this information so that they can send you a citation in the mail.
… Just because talks between Occupy Seattle and the Mayor's Office broke down afetr he would not allow OS to keep tents on the City Hall Plaza during the day, (we would like tents 24hours per day in order to show solidarity with the people of more than 140 American cities and in Japan, Tokyo, England, Italy, Libya, and the other dozen or so Country's (Whole Country's) who are “occupying” their own community centers 24 hours per day) and also to join in solidarity fellow citizens around the globe who have been doing the same thing since the first uprising in Tunisia began 9 months ago, and since the overthrow of three middle eastern governments since then. (Each Country has one common complaint, “People Before Profits.”)
... Just because we had a single propane cook top to try feed and to heat hot water and keep soup warm for over 200 people every day, rising to 3,500 people or so last Saturday, including a large number of homeless individuals (some chronically) from all walks of life, old women, people in wheel chairs, Vietnam War Vets, Gulf War Vets, Iraq Vets, Afghanistan Vets, and countless troubled teens….… a cook top that we were forced to use because we were not allowed to use any electricity from any of the parks 6 or so padlocked duplex power outlets, and just because only about 1/2 a dozen businesses out of the entire Global Revolution (as far as Seattle is concerned) whom are unfortunate enough to be directly facing or adjacent to Westlake Park are directly affected by this act of free speech which is also protected by the First Amendment (yes, the first one.) (( But that is another story about the traditional community function of a "village green" or "town center" that has been depicted throughout history.))
... Just because these are the only reasons that talks between the Mayor and a large group of Seattle Citizens known as Occupy Seattle are protesting in exactly the same manner as tens of thousands of fellow protesters in most of the rest of the entire world is no reason for the Seattle Police to be harassing us the way that they have been doing to all of us for more than two weeks now.
All of the police officers that I have personally talked to (except one tonight) have been nice and we have all found common ground together when nothing else is going on and we can chat freely. We talk to the cops the same as when we all talk together while Occupying at Westlake … that is until the police “receive orders to engage.”
THEN the police took dozens of tents and arrested more than 25 people. Then… they said we can sleep in the park only if we are in sleeping bags and tarps. Then…. during two days of torrential rain with southerly winds gusting strong enough to break umbrellas (which by the way are not allowed at Westlake by protesters, but presumably OK for shoppers to have while in the park) the cops would not allow 75 all night/all day protesters and homeless to sleep under the awnings of the building which is facing the park. The cops made everyone move into the driving rain which had weather conditions creating a wind chill factor of 32 degrees (freezing) at 15mph wind speed @ 40 degree’s Fahrenheit. We are not out here for fun. We have a good reason to be here. During this weather 5 people suffered the early stages of hypothermia including a man who called an ambulance on himself, I drove a man to a warm bed in West Seattle which was offered to him by a complete stranger and fellow protester, and I warmed 3 people in my car, including a 17 year old girl that is 3 months pregnant and to date has had no pre-natal care… and six other homeless individuals pooled their money together to share a single hotel room to dry off and get warm for just one night.
Next …the cops carried out more than a dozen more arrests, 10people, then 2more, and 2 more, all for minor things like 2people out of a group of more than 2,000 marching from Westlake to the Bank Of America Tower and back on 4th … arrested for sitting in the street while the other 1, 9998 + marchers were on the sidewalk … and then the cops said we couldn’t even sleep in the park at all when the park located in the middle of downtown Seattle “is closed” as is everything else for blocks if not miles around … and they were ordered to spend several nights in a row kicking anybody who wasn’t standing to wake them up and keep us awake.
I did manage to prevent one cop from waking the protester next to me because I pointed out to the cop that he was one of the many protesters who had brought their children with him and his boy (about 3years old) was fast asleep in a snug sleeping bag next to him on one of the few starry nights that we have had out here in the last two weeks.
During this whole government melee against citizens of Seattle, the cops took our “outreach tent”, which was not just a food and medical service meant to serve those of us who are exercising our First Amendment Rights in America in solidarity with people around the globe, but our human services tent was also for all of the teen kids on our streets for diverse and ever growing homeless population our city that has plagued us for years.
The cops took our port-a-potties from Westlake which were donated by a supporter of occupy Seattle (and not provided to us by the city as was falsely reported in tv news) so that once again there is nowhere for anybody to use a restroom downtown for miles around downtown in the middle of the night, or even during the day for that matter in most cases, unless you buy a sack of French fries, cup of coffee, or stick of gum except for the other two port-a-potties that Occupy Seattle supporters have nine blocks away in their encampment at Seattle City Hall. This is certainly an awkward chapter for a mayor that has upwards of 2,000 to 2,500 Occupy Seattle Protesters taking part in the Global Revolution at any given moment.
NEXT … … the cops descended upon us all in overwhelminmg numbers at 6:00 in the morning yesterday, (more than 75 cops) and they confiscated more than 125 tents in the name of the Seattle Parks Department, arrested 7, took our information booth’s “patio awning.” and left those of us left in such disarray that the morning commuters and general public think that we cannot even clean up our own trash when the reality of it all is that we as a large group of citizens occupying Westlake who have more than 16,000 additional supporters on-line: are trying to do just that. If it were not for the mayor’s office refusal to allow us such a large group on the street to have sanitation, electricity, shelter, basic human services, and an acknowledgment that this is not about Seattle’s precious Westlake, the park’s annual Christmas Merry-Go-Round, or the local Christmas shopping retail statistics, this is all about world wide corporate money (mostly American money) derailing global politics, free speech, corporate environmental suicide, vs. common people in 140 U.S. cities and dozens of Countries in the free and not so free world getting together to do the right thing as a global community simply because it is the right thing to do.
I think that WE in America who support the American Occupy Movement and the people willing to camp out voluntarily in these conditions should go hassle all of the people across our great nation who slept in tents last night (without the interference, arrest and seizure of personal property by government and police) at shopping malls around this country in order to be the first on their block to buy the new I-phone… and we should ask them if we may borrow their tents for the revolution now that they are done purchasing a new phone and their night sleeping in a tent outside a shopping mall is done.
A Green Technology Economy and the "Occupy Movement"
A Green Technology Referendum That
Should Be Added To The List Of Demands
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently. fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, energy independence, and a new profitable economy for all. It will become more and more efficient as it is installed and develops.
These directives should become global and not just American.
Should Be Added To The List Of Demands
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently. fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, energy independence, and a new profitable economy for all. It will become more and more efficient as it is installed and develops.
These directives should become global and not just American.
Civil Disobedience and Green Energy Defined
I am cleanelectric (r)evolution, the editor of this blog: http://badgasgoodwind,blogspot.com
I am a patriot, I believe in the Constitution, Freedom Of Speech, Civil Rights, Fair Trade, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Farming, and Civil Disobedience.
Civil Disobedience is an action citizens can take when the laws that govern them are considered unjust, therefore unlawful, and not a crime to break. It is an action to create "just" and "civilized" change.
If you ever wondered, "why am I here? Why am I alive?" the answer is to protect human rights, protect the planet, and leave this place better than when you were born into it. 2012 is the most important date in the history of our beloved and necessary planet and the future of human kind and all that depends on our wisdom hangs in the balance now, today.
The global issues that face us all today are nothing new. They are the very same issues people have been protesting throughout history and during my entire life, through the 60's, the 70's and now after 50 years .... actually solving our problems has become critical to the future itself.
The past year has been packed with global protests and ordinary people participating in civil disobedience around the globe, all of us with the very same concerns no matter which country we live.
The level of civil disobedience to demand justice depends on the risk that you are willing to take in exchange for the values that you believe in. Many all over the world have already given up their lives, killed and beaten by cops and soldiers. People all around the world including hundreds of thousands in America have been arrested, slept on the pavement in the snow and rain, kicked, punched, shot with tear gas and peppersprayed for thier beliefs. These are not lazy homeless people to make these sorts of sacrifices for others.
Civil Disobedience ranges from taking your children with you to exercise your right to The Freedom Of Assembly and The Freedom Of Speech, all the way up to sabatoge that does not in turn harm our environment, and actual combat if freedoms and justice need to be defended with force. Even a pascifist will hit back after being punched repeatedly.
There is no right or wrong to the level of Civil Disobedience you choose. Others will always be willing to risk more or less than you for their convictions. The important part is to get involved. Choose your own level of engagement that is comfortable, then take it UP one more notch.
I hope the following article helps people to understand that we are all in this together, humanity as a whole is like fish and birds, there are no borders to them.
OCCUPY SURVIVAL GUIDE --- EDITORIAL
I believe that collectively all of humanity is going through the phases of grief about the realization that something has gone very wrong with our planet, our energy and food supplies, our governemnts, our mega corporations, and our media.
The deniers and critics of things like: the past nine months of multiple global uprisings, the occupy movement, peak oil, climate change, environmentalists, socialism, lefties, and hippies ... and instead still support coal mines, natural gas fracking, oil drilling, nuclear power, mainstream news, big banks, status quo politicians and the Tea Party ...
..... are all in the First Stage of Grief: Denial.
Soon they will move to Sadness and Fear as Reality becomes clear.
...
Next we move to the Third Stage Of Grief: Anger, and join our brothers and sisters around the world who have already taken to the streets to rotest using various levels of civil disobedience.
Four: Collectively, we are all ready to find a solution and solve this problem together. We restore "Government For The People", We embrace a peacefull global revolution of: economic, political, industrial, and social change by creating energy independence and enhancing the food security of every individual community on earth.
Pete Whipple
aka.
cleanelectric
The deniers and critics of things like: the past nine months of multiple global uprisings, the occupy movement, peak oil, climate change, environmentalists, socialism, lefties, and hippies ... and instead still support coal mines, natural gas fracking, oil drilling, nuclear power, mainstream news, big banks, status quo politicians and the Tea Party ...
..... are all in the First Stage of Grief: Denial.
Soon they will move to Sadness and Fear as Reality becomes clear.
...
Next we move to the Third Stage Of Grief: Anger, and join our brothers and sisters around the world who have already taken to the streets to rotest using various levels of civil disobedience.
Four: Collectively, we are all ready to find a solution and solve this problem together. We restore "Government For The People", We embrace a peacefull global revolution of: economic, political, industrial, and social change by creating energy independence and enhancing the food security of every individual community on earth.
Pete Whipple
aka.
cleanelectric
A Green Technology Economy and the "Occupy Movement"
A Green Technology Referendum That
Should Be Added To The List Of Demands
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently. fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, energy independence, and a new profitable economy for all. It will become more and more efficient as it is installed and develops.
These directives should become global and not just American.
Should Be Added To The List Of Demands
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently. fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, energy independence, and a new profitable economy for all. It will become more and more efficient as it is installed and develops.
These directives should become global and not just American.
History, The Industrial Revolution, and Todays World.
The French Revolution, Darwin,
and Apple Pie
by cleanelectric
and Apple Pie
by cleanelectric
Who Is Serious About Clean Energy And Who Isn't?
The worlds first oil well was drilled in 1859. This began a major transition from manual labor to a machinery based economy. The use of Coal also rapidly increased in the 1850's and it's use is horrifically widespread today. Our world has changed dramatically in the 150 years since then. What began as global progress has become a global disaster.
Nearly every U.S. electric utility, gasoline company, and car salesman makes a big deal about how environmentally responsible they are and what a great "Green Investment" they are making. The reality is that they hope a fancy web page and slick television commercials will convince us not to question them and simply assume that all they say is true.
This pie chart shows the sources that Puget Sound Energy, Washington State, USA, uses for "fuel' to generate electricity. "Hydro, Gas, Coal, Nuclear, and Other." Note that the 1% (Other) also includes bioi mass, landfill gas, petroleum, waste, and wind. (There is no solar represented in most states, except California)
Typical U.S. Electric Utility Source Ratios
Climate change, air pollution, oil spills, water contamination, deforestation, nuclear radiation, and toxic sludge are not just america's problem. It is not up to america to go green in order to save the world. It is a global problem and america actually lags behind the rest of the world.
Germany has taken the lead with wind and solar power and it is not particularly windy or sunny in Germany. If they can make the change to renewable energy, any country can. In fact they are. Saudi Arabia has already constructed large solar farms, so has Spain. Canada, Australia, New Zealand,Israel, England and elsewhere in Europe, China Korea and Japan are all building solar and wind electricity generation equipment and generation facilities.
More than half a dozen countries around the world are producing both electric hybrid cars, and 100% electric cars for todays market. Auto companies are competing to get quality, high-performance vehivles on the market in the next several months. Sales of pure electric cars are predicted to surpass hybrids and make hybrids obsolete rather quickly.
America is building solar and wind farms, upgrading the transmission lines, and embracing for a surge of electric cars on the roads by installing public charging stations all accross the country right now. Yet all of this is not enough. America still gets about half of it's electricity from coal fired power plants, and a substantial more from oil and natural gas fueled powerplants. The world was horrified by BP's Deepwater Horizon Disaster, but coal, and natural gas pollution is just as bad, if not worse than anoil spill, and the pollution it creates is ongoing every single day.
Whether Charles Darwin was right or not about the origin of species, or whether Creationism was right or not. Whether you are faithful to another of mankinds great religions , or if it doesn't really matter to you one way or the other, one thing is common to each and every one of us: We all live on the same planet earth, and the industrial revolution of the last 150 years is no longer an industry of progress. The use of oil, coal,and natural gas has become an extreme hazard to humans and all other life. We are literally shitting where we sleep.
The French Revolution marked the "age of enlightenment." It also ended an absolute monarchy, and gave the French civil rights and citizenship. It also did something else, it taught the french not to be afraid of their government, and that the people can take control whenever it becomes corrupt, a sentiment that the french still carry to this day.
The French Revolution would not ever have happened without the essays,writings, and articles of Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu. Montesquieu was a political thinker, a social commentator and he believed in the separation of powers. He risked his life to write in support of the revolution, communicated the issues and ideas so that they can be understood by the average citizen, and these ideas spread accross the entire country.
The fundamental difference between the French Revolution, Montesquieu and the world in 2010, is that we have the internet and it social networks. Many people can write as Montesquieu has done. While we don't have a selfish, greedy monarchy to be afraid of, we do have a global fossil fuel based economy that has done a grossly insurmountable amount of damage to the earth in a very, very short amount of time, and continues to do so. The worlds governments have been corrupted by selfish, greedy politicians and business people who have a personal financial interest in the oil, gas, and coal industries. There is a moral conflict of intersts when politicians are profiting from pollution. This, we should all be very afraid of.
I am a person just like you, who is passionate about leaving this earth in better shape than it was the day I was born into it. In the spirit of Montesquieu I write to encourage true renewable clean energy world wide, and ethical, responsible, government and business practices. I encourage other people around the world to do so as well. This is a global problem which requires global attention and a global solution. It requires that everyone get involved, to show the few who control these industries that we are not afraid of them, and they should be ashamed of turning their backs on all the spoilage they cause the earth and it's people.
I am also american. I believe in our founding fathers, our constitution, our bill of rights, our democracy and our government. I am patriotic. I believe in civil disobedience, revolution, and doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. I believe that if the 5% richest americans and the politicians who protect them were to read the Gettysburg address over again, that they would all be very ashamed.
I believe in baseball, hotdogs, mom and apple pie. I think an energy source ratio pie made mostly of coal, gas, and oil is a pretty nasty pie. I prefer mine made of wind, sun, clean air, clean water, and true respect for the planet that gives us all life.
America is building solar and wind farms, upgrading the transmission lines, and embracing for a surge of electric cars on the roads by installing public charging stations all accross the country right now. Yet all of this is not enough. America still gets about half of it's electricity from coal fired power plants, and a substantial more from oil and natural gas fueled powerplants. The world was horrified by BP's Deepwater Horizon Disaster, but coal, and natural gas pollution is just as bad, if not worse than anoil spill, and the pollution it creates is ongoing every single day.
Whether Charles Darwin was right or not about the origin of species, or whether Creationism was right or not. Whether you are faithful to another of mankinds great religions , or if it doesn't really matter to you one way or the other, one thing is common to each and every one of us: We all live on the same planet earth, and the industrial revolution of the last 150 years is no longer an industry of progress. The use of oil, coal,and natural gas has become an extreme hazard to humans and all other life. We are literally shitting where we sleep.
The French Revolution marked the "age of enlightenment." It also ended an absolute monarchy, and gave the French civil rights and citizenship. It also did something else, it taught the french not to be afraid of their government, and that the people can take control whenever it becomes corrupt, a sentiment that the french still carry to this day.
The French Revolution would not ever have happened without the essays,writings, and articles of Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu. Montesquieu was a political thinker, a social commentator and he believed in the separation of powers. He risked his life to write in support of the revolution, communicated the issues and ideas so that they can be understood by the average citizen, and these ideas spread accross the entire country.
The fundamental difference between the French Revolution, Montesquieu and the world in 2010, is that we have the internet and it social networks. Many people can write as Montesquieu has done. While we don't have a selfish, greedy monarchy to be afraid of, we do have a global fossil fuel based economy that has done a grossly insurmountable amount of damage to the earth in a very, very short amount of time, and continues to do so. The worlds governments have been corrupted by selfish, greedy politicians and business people who have a personal financial interest in the oil, gas, and coal industries. There is a moral conflict of intersts when politicians are profiting from pollution. This, we should all be very afraid of.
I am a person just like you, who is passionate about leaving this earth in better shape than it was the day I was born into it. In the spirit of Montesquieu I write to encourage true renewable clean energy world wide, and ethical, responsible, government and business practices. I encourage other people around the world to do so as well. This is a global problem which requires global attention and a global solution. It requires that everyone get involved, to show the few who control these industries that we are not afraid of them, and they should be ashamed of turning their backs on all the spoilage they cause the earth and it's people.
I am also american. I believe in our founding fathers, our constitution, our bill of rights, our democracy and our government. I am patriotic. I believe in civil disobedience, revolution, and doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. I believe that if the 5% richest americans and the politicians who protect them were to read the Gettysburg address over again, that they would all be very ashamed.
I believe in baseball, hotdogs, mom and apple pie. I think an energy source ratio pie made mostly of coal, gas, and oil is a pretty nasty pie. I prefer mine made of wind, sun, clean air, clean water, and true respect for the planet that gives us all life.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Secondat,_Baron_de_Montesquieu
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Secondat,_Baron_de_Montesquieu
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
The Most Important Revolution Is The Next One - Be There Or Be Square
Revolution has occured in order to achieve a better life for the masses countless times throughout history. Stand Up and make all of your ancestors and all of OUR grandchildren proud and fight the good fight for a global "Green Technology" conversion.
Solidarity in demanding clean energy is the most important revolution that all of humankind will participate in. Join your brothers & sisters in throwing out the dirty polluting creeps that currently run our whole world today.
Solidarity in demanding clean energy is the most important revolution that all of humankind will participate in. Join your brothers & sisters in throwing out the dirty polluting creeps that currently run our whole world today.
THE 99% AND THE STEWARDSHIP OF OUR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
A Green Technology Economy and the "Occupy Movement"
Should Be Added To The List Of Demands
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
The 1% that are Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas CEO's are doing the same thing to our planets people that Wall Street has done with the help of Global Government and media, and they are destroying the planet as they line their own pockets with gold.
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive for a Green Energy Economy. Just one idea is to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently within 5,000 feet in every direction of every well site. Fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, local energy independence for every global community, and a new profitable economy for all. Green Energy will become more and more efficient every day as it is installed and as it develops scientifically.
These directives should become global and not just an American Goal.
by cleanelectric 9/29/2011
The 1% that are Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas CEO's are doing the same thing to our planets people that Wall Street has done with the help of Global Government and media, and they are destroying the planet as they line their own pockets with gold.
One of the "Occupy Official Demands" should be an Environmental and Economic Stimulus Directive for a Green Energy Economy. Just one idea is to install solar panels and (cylindrical) wind turbines along every interstate highway, roadway, parking lot, warehouse roof, tall building and home in the country.
We need an electric car initiative and an electric farm equipment initiative (tractors, harvesters etc.)
We need a world-wide directive that states that oil is more valuable and will last longer as a manufacturing ingredient and not as a fuel. It should not be used as a fuel.
There are 925 Million People going hungry on the planet every day out of 7 billion people total, that is 1/7th of earths population going hungry. Food prices are forecast to double in 18 years meaning that 4/7th of earths population will go hungry. Growing crops for Bio Fuels is a waste of badly needed food crops. Bio Fuels are still burned and still pollute and should not be used.
The U.S. still gets half it's electricity from coal. It is the dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel of all. The Canadian Tar Sands are the dirtiest source of all other sources. The damage coal causes to the environment means that it is a false economy and is really of no value to the community. It should not be used.
Natural Gas burns cleaner than coal, but it still burns and it still pollutes. Extracting natural gas pollutes ground water permanently within 5,000 feet in every direction of every well site. Fracturing rock a mile under earths surface to get the natural gas is like shattering earths ribs and could cause earthquakes and other irreversable damage. It should not be used.
Nuclear Power is only clean until there is a leak. Dozens of America's largest cities are within the 50 mile "fatal zone" of nuclear reactors. They should be mothballed as their usefull life expires.
Green Technology as in Solar, Wind, and Tidal Energy Generation: electric vehicles, and "intermittent source" power storage and "load leveling" are in their infancy as the Model T Ford was once the infancy of automobiles.
Nuclear Power and ALL fossil fuels will only continue to get more and more expensive and contribute to corporate and government corruption, and contribute to the instability of global politics,economics and every countries food supply as time goes on.
A Green Technology Economy will provide more security to each countries agriculture system and environment, local energy independence for every global community, and a new profitable economy for all. Green Energy will become more and more efficient every day as it is installed and as it develops scientifically.
These directives should become global and not just an American Goal.
"Green" Electricity ~ Where will it all come from?
Where will we get all this electricity from when all the cars are electric? Let's start by reviewing where we get it all from now. There is a pie chart on the right hand panel of this blog illustrating typical american electric power sources. Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Hydro-Electric, Bio-Mass, Sun, and Wind. America gets about half of our electricity from Coal and China uses more Coal than America does.
Let's also begin by simplifying what we mean when we say Climate Change to refer to the negative aspects of these power sources, and simply call it pollution instead. All of these sources pollute to one degree or another, even the manufacture of wind and solar equipment.
All of our electric power regardless of the source must be created by generators and transmitted in electric lines. Trillions of miles upon miles of copper wires are wrapped inside generators and strung along transmission lines, running through all olf the walls of buildings, every air conditioner, every heater and inside every car. As the need for electricity grows "superconducting"semi-precious metals also increases, even every electronic device has these inside them. The demand for more copper and more superconducting rare earth metals means more mining around the world.
Copper mining beacame the poster child of america's environmental movement in the 1970's so not much is produced anymore however there are copper and rare earths in America and Canada. Most of these metals are in China and elsewhere such as the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Solar panel, batteries and electronic devices, (phones, I-Pods etc.) also requires raw materials that must be mined in order to be manufactured. The abundance of these elements that are mined in China is one reason they make and sell so many more of all these items than the U.S. does. The good news is that each and every one of these products made with mined elements such as copper, silicon, and lithium etc. are 80% recyclable after they are made once.
So really it is a matter of comparing the risks of the downsides or each electrical power and equipment source. Would you rather go with 100% wind and solar (and maybe even tidal generation) and mining pollution from an end product that is 80% recyclable, or continue living with the mutitudes of risks, all of which are potentiallly catastrophic beyond our wildest dreams with the systems we are using now?
China os building several new coal powered plants each and every year to try and keep up with the demand, The U.S. and Canada are doing trying to do the same thing with the Keystone Pipeline from the Canadian Tar Sands to try and keep up with demand as well. Coal and Natural Gas pollute when being removed from the ground, pollute when burned to make electricity, and the leftovers from these processes pollute as well. Nuclear Uranium needs to be mined, it pollutes, and the waste not only pollutes, but there is also the risk that it could be used to make bombs. Bio-Fuels pulloute when burned and they consume agricultural land that is needed well into the future to grow food crops for an ever increasing population. (The only logical use of Bio-Fuels is capturing land fill gases and using them since they will escape into the atmosphere or blow up the landfill anyway.)
The bad news when it comes to oil drilling is that at the moment it is needed to make plastic. The good news is that once that plastic is made, it is 80% reycylable, and if oil is used exclusively for manufacturing and not as a fuel then our supply would last much, much, much, longer. We are also beginning to make plastics out of bio material so oil won't be needed to make it eventually and it too is 80% recyclable. Let's not forget that recyclable means re-usable.
The world's power industry is humankinds most recent Industrial and Economic Revolution. Coal and Oil technology is 150 and 100 years old repectively. Hydro-Electric is newer than that, and Nuclear is newer still. Wind and Solar are the newest and they are our future. The fossil fuels industry is last centuries technology and what began as a good thing is now obsolete and no longer sustainably usefull for the power demands of such a modern world. The massive damage caused by their use to the environment and the business and political correption caused by the struggle to control it cobined with a shrinking supply and growing demand has created a false and unstable economy world wide.
We need to recognize that our current fuel industries have had a poor track record environmentally, politically, and legally. That Coal and Natural Gas simply pollute way too much for it's use to make sense anymore, that there has been a cover-up, false promise, or false sense of security from the inception of the Nuclear industry. We also need to understand that the people who transmit our electricity from the generation source to each of us are Publically Owned Utilities. We own them, we live in a democracy, and we can insist that we want wind and solar energy because it pollutes the least and offers each country the most energy independence of any of the other sources.
We need to stop the coal mines and Natural Gas fracking operations right now. People employed in those area's must have priority hiring in Green Energy Solutions, after all, we have depended on them and they should be rewarded for their work. We need to mothball Nuclear Power Plants with the oldest and least safe first as they end their usefull life without building more of them. We need to mothball oil rigs with the oldest first as they too are no longer safe or usefull, and target the use of oil exclusoively for manufacturing as electric cars and solar and wind electricity gains market share world wide.
Auto makers need to start building 100's of thousands of the electric cars the show off at car shows every year instead of just a few thousand at a time or less. Charging Stations for electric cars must be franchised, small business opportunities, and installed in homes, schools, shopping area's, and offices. The same goes for wind and solar equipment. Turbines and panels must be installed in all these same places, and along every freeway interstate, street light post, parking lot, and warehouse that already exist in the world today. It is windy at the top of every tall building and solar panels could be installed vertically along the south side of every tall building. Who says that solar and wind farms "have to be laid out covering acre upon acre of land."?
Unfortunately our troops will always be deployed to protect the oil supply even if it is used exclusively as a manufacturing product, but this sort of Green Energy infrastructure investement and business opportunity will provide jobs and revive the worlds economies with a new Green Energy Economy.
When people say the word revolution, most people think of war. The revolution which gave us all the quality of life we have today was an Industrial Revolution. The most important revolution in the history of humankind is upon us right here, right now. IT IS A GREEN ENERGY SOURCE EVOLUTION. This is not simply a demand for democracy, or human rights, or a better economy, it is all of those things all wrapped up into one ideal.
A Green Power Evolution is a world wide: industrial evolution, political evolution, economic evolution, and a social evolution at at once. To anser the question, "Where will we get all of this electricity from?" --- That depends on you.
By Pete Whipple 8/26/2011
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Let's also begin by simplifying what we mean when we say Climate Change to refer to the negative aspects of these power sources, and simply call it pollution instead. All of these sources pollute to one degree or another, even the manufacture of wind and solar equipment.
All of our electric power regardless of the source must be created by generators and transmitted in electric lines. Trillions of miles upon miles of copper wires are wrapped inside generators and strung along transmission lines, running through all olf the walls of buildings, every air conditioner, every heater and inside every car. As the need for electricity grows "superconducting"semi-precious metals also increases, even every electronic device has these inside them. The demand for more copper and more superconducting rare earth metals means more mining around the world.
Copper mining beacame the poster child of america's environmental movement in the 1970's so not much is produced anymore however there are copper and rare earths in America and Canada. Most of these metals are in China and elsewhere such as the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Solar panel, batteries and electronic devices, (phones, I-Pods etc.) also requires raw materials that must be mined in order to be manufactured. The abundance of these elements that are mined in China is one reason they make and sell so many more of all these items than the U.S. does. The good news is that each and every one of these products made with mined elements such as copper, silicon, and lithium etc. are 80% recyclable after they are made once.
So really it is a matter of comparing the risks of the downsides or each electrical power and equipment source. Would you rather go with 100% wind and solar (and maybe even tidal generation) and mining pollution from an end product that is 80% recyclable, or continue living with the mutitudes of risks, all of which are potentiallly catastrophic beyond our wildest dreams with the systems we are using now?
China os building several new coal powered plants each and every year to try and keep up with the demand, The U.S. and Canada are doing trying to do the same thing with the Keystone Pipeline from the Canadian Tar Sands to try and keep up with demand as well. Coal and Natural Gas pollute when being removed from the ground, pollute when burned to make electricity, and the leftovers from these processes pollute as well. Nuclear Uranium needs to be mined, it pollutes, and the waste not only pollutes, but there is also the risk that it could be used to make bombs. Bio-Fuels pulloute when burned and they consume agricultural land that is needed well into the future to grow food crops for an ever increasing population. (The only logical use of Bio-Fuels is capturing land fill gases and using them since they will escape into the atmosphere or blow up the landfill anyway.)
The bad news when it comes to oil drilling is that at the moment it is needed to make plastic. The good news is that once that plastic is made, it is 80% reycylable, and if oil is used exclusively for manufacturing and not as a fuel then our supply would last much, much, much, longer. We are also beginning to make plastics out of bio material so oil won't be needed to make it eventually and it too is 80% recyclable. Let's not forget that recyclable means re-usable.
The world's power industry is humankinds most recent Industrial and Economic Revolution. Coal and Oil technology is 150 and 100 years old repectively. Hydro-Electric is newer than that, and Nuclear is newer still. Wind and Solar are the newest and they are our future. The fossil fuels industry is last centuries technology and what began as a good thing is now obsolete and no longer sustainably usefull for the power demands of such a modern world. The massive damage caused by their use to the environment and the business and political correption caused by the struggle to control it cobined with a shrinking supply and growing demand has created a false and unstable economy world wide.
We need to recognize that our current fuel industries have had a poor track record environmentally, politically, and legally. That Coal and Natural Gas simply pollute way too much for it's use to make sense anymore, that there has been a cover-up, false promise, or false sense of security from the inception of the Nuclear industry. We also need to understand that the people who transmit our electricity from the generation source to each of us are Publically Owned Utilities. We own them, we live in a democracy, and we can insist that we want wind and solar energy because it pollutes the least and offers each country the most energy independence of any of the other sources.
We need to stop the coal mines and Natural Gas fracking operations right now. People employed in those area's must have priority hiring in Green Energy Solutions, after all, we have depended on them and they should be rewarded for their work. We need to mothball Nuclear Power Plants with the oldest and least safe first as they end their usefull life without building more of them. We need to mothball oil rigs with the oldest first as they too are no longer safe or usefull, and target the use of oil exclusoively for manufacturing as electric cars and solar and wind electricity gains market share world wide.
Auto makers need to start building 100's of thousands of the electric cars the show off at car shows every year instead of just a few thousand at a time or less. Charging Stations for electric cars must be franchised, small business opportunities, and installed in homes, schools, shopping area's, and offices. The same goes for wind and solar equipment. Turbines and panels must be installed in all these same places, and along every freeway interstate, street light post, parking lot, and warehouse that already exist in the world today. It is windy at the top of every tall building and solar panels could be installed vertically along the south side of every tall building. Who says that solar and wind farms "have to be laid out covering acre upon acre of land."?
Unfortunately our troops will always be deployed to protect the oil supply even if it is used exclusively as a manufacturing product, but this sort of Green Energy infrastructure investement and business opportunity will provide jobs and revive the worlds economies with a new Green Energy Economy.
When people say the word revolution, most people think of war. The revolution which gave us all the quality of life we have today was an Industrial Revolution. The most important revolution in the history of humankind is upon us right here, right now. IT IS A GREEN ENERGY SOURCE EVOLUTION. This is not simply a demand for democracy, or human rights, or a better economy, it is all of those things all wrapped up into one ideal.
A Green Power Evolution is a world wide: industrial evolution, political evolution, economic evolution, and a social evolution at at once. To anser the question, "Where will we get all of this electricity from?" --- That depends on you.
By Pete Whipple 8/26/2011
Please Comment
Occupation Critics Are Still In Denial (The First Stage Of Grief)
I believe that collectively all of humanity is going through the phases of grief about the realization that something has gone very wrong with our planet, our energy and food supplies, our governemnts, our mega corporations, and our media.
The deniers and critics of things like: the past nine months of multiple global uprisings, the occupy movement, peak oil, climate change, environmentalists, socialism, lefties, and hippies ... and instead still support coal mines, natural gas fracking, oil drilling, nuclear power, mainstream news, big banks, status quo politicians and the Tea Party ...
..... are all in the First Stage of Grief: Denial.
Soon they will move to Sadness and Fear as Reality becomes clear.
...
Next we move to the Third Stage Of Grief: Anger, and join our brothers and sisters around the world who have already taken to the streets to rotest using various levels of civil disobedience.
Four: Collectively, we are all ready to find a solution and solve this problem together. We restore "Government For The People", We embrace a peacefull global revolution of: economic, political, industrial, and social change by creating energy independence and enhancing the food security of every individual community on earth.
The deniers and critics of things like: the past nine months of multiple global uprisings, the occupy movement, peak oil, climate change, environmentalists, socialism, lefties, and hippies ... and instead still support coal mines, natural gas fracking, oil drilling, nuclear power, mainstream news, big banks, status quo politicians and the Tea Party ...
..... are all in the First Stage of Grief: Denial.
Soon they will move to Sadness and Fear as Reality becomes clear.
...
Next we move to the Third Stage Of Grief: Anger, and join our brothers and sisters around the world who have already taken to the streets to rotest using various levels of civil disobedience.
Four: Collectively, we are all ready to find a solution and solve this problem together. We restore "Government For The People", We embrace a peacefull global revolution of: economic, political, industrial, and social change by creating energy independence and enhancing the food security of every individual community on earth.
Kieth Olberman Interviews 84 Year Old Woman Pepper Sprayed At Occupy Seattle
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to “take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.”
6,700 American Protesters Arrested: Occupy First 6 Months
6,700 Americans have been arrested in the first six months of the Occupy Protests in the U.S.
thats 1,116 people arrested for protesting per month.
In america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech at events such as presidential conventions, debates, and areas where the president or anyone protected by the secret service is now a felony punishable by up to ten years in jail and $25,000 bail.
HR347 signed by Obama and approved by congress (a congreess that can't cooperate on anything else.) to stop citizens from flooding the streets and demanding change.
Outlaw Occupy: US Set to Strangle Protests with Jail Threats
Published on Monday, March 19, 2012 by RT
New York City police are investigating death threats made against staff through the phone and on twitter. This after officers forcibly arrested more than 70 people during an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since the start of the movement, nationwide protests have faced numerous cases of police brutality with batons and tear gas often used to disperse crowds. As the movement continues, so too does Washington's desire to silence the American public, as RT's Marina Portnaya explains.
New York City police are investigating death threats made against staff through the phone and on twitter. This after officers forcibly arrested more than 70 people during an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since the start of the movement, nationwide protests have faced numerous cases of police brutality with batons and tear gas often used to disperse crowds. As the movement continues, so too does Washington's desire to silence the American public, as RT's Marina Portnaya explains.
© 2012 RT
The 1% Parties in Oblivion - Comparisons of the French Revolution and Occupy Wall Street
This video was removed from my blog by the corporate news agency owned by Wall Street that originally posted it.
This nearly identical video remains on my blog
because it was not posted by a corporate news agency
Urge the Senate to Oppose Indefinite Military Detention --- SIGN THE PETITION HERE
The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and without charge.
The Defense Authorization bill — a "must-pass" piece of legislation — is headed to the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to indefinitely imprison people, without charge or trial, both abroad and inside the United States.
Urge your Senators to oppose sections 1031 and 1032 of the Defense Authorization bill.
Urge your Senators to oppose sections 1031 and 1032 of the Defense Authorization bill.
(vid) World Fears U.S. as War Hungry Drunk : Alaska Senator Mike Gravel : RT News
Former Alaskan Senator and Alaska Pipeline Proponent Mike Gravel Bashes Government and Corporate role in abuses of power, human rights violations, intentional environmental degradation and more in this RT News interview
(pics) Occupy World Wide Photo Montage
Occupy London
Occupy Paris, France
Occupy Syria
Occupy Nigeria
Occupy Atlanta, Georgia
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