WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
JIM CROW GOES TO PALESTINE. Israel is practicing against its Palestinian minority the same repressive apartheid-maintaining measures that kept blacks in “their places” (literally) in the U.S. in the years leading up to the civil rights movement. The walls that attempt to separate Jews and Muslims are the equivalent to the “red lining” in [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
New records associated with global climate change are falling at a dizzying rate, and some of the statistics are “astonishing” in their magnitude. It all adds up to more signs than ever before that irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes associated with global warming will push the world’s population to the brink . The year 2012 [...]
“Big” heat across the United States is leading to serious ecological and economic pressures as the nation and the world face unprecedented weather events that are now unquestionably linked to the phenomenon of global warming. Experts say we are dealing with rapidly escalating and potentially unpredictable consequences of man-made climate change that may soon be [...]
Over half of the United States is in the grips of a historic drought that has hit the Midwestern agricultural belt of the nation especially hard, generating fears of food shortages, price spikes, and a dangerous “new normal” in what could be called America’s “climate change summer.” The recent increase in extreme and unusual weather [...]
HOW IS THAT ARAB SPRING THING WORKING OUT IN EGYPT TODAY? (UK Independent) Apparently the “liberation” of that country from an “autocratic” Hosni Mubarak has descended into a winter of repression. Arab opinion is inflamed as military regime’s police violently break up anti-government protests and a video is broadcast across the Middle East of a [...]
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