Greenspiration News: Fascism Anyone?

Thu Sep 16 22:53:24 EDT 2010

Greenspiration News

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“Current transport financing practices are unfit to meet 21st century needs. As much as $700 billion is spent annually subsidizing motor fuels, while hundreds of billions more in public and global aid funds subsidize the growing use of cars. This comes at the expense of investments in more pressing human needs for modern bus rapid transit, streets safe for walking and cycling, quality public space, as well as health, housing, and education."

- Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)  

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Fascism Anyone?

Analysis of past fascist regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. 

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2 

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We Need Your Ideas: A Call for Direct Action in the Climate Movement

An open letter from the Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace USA, and 350.org: What will it take to finally get serious about climate change?

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/we-need-your-ideas-a-call-for-direct-action-in-the-climate-movement

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Tar sands: the fight we have to win

If you were going to drop everything to fight a critical struggle, this would be one prime example.

http://murraydobbin.ca/2010/09/13/the-fight-of-our-lives/ 

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Howard Zinn on non-violent civil disobedience – 10 min. video

Howard Zinn makes the case for non-violent civil disobedience as having been instrumental in changing American history and advancing democracy.
“Protest beyond the law is not departure from democracy. It is absolutely essential to it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feRRTA6W1Tg&feature=player_embedded

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Tarnished Earth: the destruction of Canada's Boreal forest for the tar sands

'Tarnished Earth is a dramatic street gallery of photographs telling the story of the destruction of Canada's boreal forest. The exhibition shows how the boreal forest is being flattened by the rush to extract oil from the tar sands just below its surface.' View 9 of the incredible photos here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/sep/07/tarnished-earth-oil-sands?%2F%3Fpicture=366315449&index=0#/?picture=366315451&index=1

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Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals reveals how women’s sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder. In this compelling book, award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to "cure" it. The authors go inside the corridors of medical power to visit drug company–sponsored scientific meetings and medical education events where doctors are being trained to see women’s sexual problems as the symptoms of FSD — a pharmaceutically treatable condition. Moynihan and Mintzes explore the underlying causes of sexual dissatisfaction among women and expose how global drug companies exploit those problems in an attempt to create the next billion dollar disease.

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Lies-Pharmaceuticals-Companies-Dysfunction/dp/1553655087 

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Government Fiction vs. Tar Sands facts.

This fact sheet compares government statements versus scientific data and reports on issues such oilsands contaminants in rivers, the future of tailings ponds, land reclamation, and greenhouse gases from oilsands development.

http://communities.canada.com/calgaryherald/blogs/insidealberta/archive/2010/09/08/oilsands-facts-vs-fiction.aspx

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Tell Eli Lilly to Stop Milking Cancer! - Petition

Eli Lilly is the sole world-wide manufacturer of rBGH – the artificial growth hormone given to dairy cows that has been linked to an increased risk of cancer in humans. However, Eli Lilly also produces cancer treatment and prevention drugs. It’s outrageous. They are profiting from cancer on every front.

Sign the petition here: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6098/action/milkingcancer

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GreenHeroes.tv Website Launch: Saving the Planet One Story at a Time

GreenHeroes is a timely Web/TV crossover about smart, sexy and dynamic crusaders for the environment. Twenty-four short webisodes are being launched every couple of weeks paired with thoughtful blogs, a specialized campaign page for each webisode and much more. Six  half-hour episodes will air on TVO in November. They feature remarkable people such as singer/songwriters Sarah Harmer and Gord Downie, green giant David Suzuki, NHL player Andrew Ference, renowned chimpanzee researcher and conservationist Jane Goodall, racecar driver Leilani Munter and many more.

GreenHeroes.tv is an internet channel that tells remarkable stories of people who acted on their ideas to address the global environment crisis.   You can twitter, comment and share videos to your green heart’s delight. 

Check it out http://www.greenheroes.tv/ 

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Birth control pills have side effects -- they should be prescribed less, not made available over the counter

The pill is not Tylenol or cough medication. Certainly it's widely used. However, forever downplayed are the nasty and known side effects: There's the risk of blood clots leading to stroke. There's mood swings. There's increased risk of cervical cancer, (alongside the highly touted effect of decreasing the risk of ovarian cancer). There's a 44-per-cent increased risk of developing breast cancer for young women prior to having children, a finding published in the Mayo Clinic journal in 2006. Anecdotal evidence has some women feeling permanently nauseous, others get depressed. Still others say they lose, wait for the irony, the desire to have sex.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/Popping+pills/3486529/story.html#ixzz0yrIEPbix

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The Disease Mongering Engine

Why let drug companies have all the fun?
You can invent diseases too!

http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp?generate=roll-me-a-n

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If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice

http://www.naturalnews.com/009844.html 

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Michael Moore criticizes the Harper government's treatment of U.S. Iraq War resisters

VIDEO ON YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yVBIulyP6k

Article:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/filmmaker-michael-moore-calls-canada-shameful-on-us-war-dodgers-103094579.html
OR
http://bit.ly/bPHu4n

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Canada is close to passing the Climate Change Accountability Act, but it’s under threat by Conservative Senators. Parliamentarians passed the Bill (C-311) in May. Now the Bill needs the support of 53 Senators. Of the 105 Senators, 52 are Conservative.

The situation is precarious. Years of hard work to get the Act to this point could prove meaningless if it does not get the support from all 53 opposition Senators: 49 Liberal Senators, two Progressive Conservatives and two Independents.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is calling on its members to lobby the Senate to oppose the Bill. Let’s galvanize a concerted citizen campaign in support of Bill C-311, which if passed into law will set science based emissions reductions, require the government to produce five year target plans, establish independent reviews, and punish polluters who break regulations. It will also position Canada as a global leader in the transition to a low carbon economy.   

What to do? Please visit http://www.trunity.net/climateresponse/topics/view/53728/ for sample letters to Senators, as well as the heads of insurance companies and financial firms, who are Chamber of Commerce members, to lobby the Senate to support of the Bill. I also include contact details. I put a lot of work into this so you don’t have to. Please send these letters off and spread the word.

On September 28th Senator Neufeld will speak out against the Bill when the Senate resumes debate on it. Let’s bombard the Senate with emails. Soon I will craft sample targeted emails to Liberal Senators, PC Senators and the Independents, and upload them onto the Climate Response campaign page.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Let’s insure that the Climate Change Accountability Act becomes law.

Cheryl McNamara
www.carbonslim.blogspot.com 
www.climateresponse.ca

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