Greenspiration News: Feds cut enviro programs

Wed Mar 2 23:11:18 EST 2011

Greenspiration News

How did such extremism take hold in the liberal West? "It is necessary to destroy hope, idealism, solidarity, and concern for the poor and oppressed," observed Noam Chomsky a generation ago, and "to replace these dangerous feelings with self-centered egoism, a pervasive cynicism that holds that ... the state capitalist order with its inherent inequities and oppression is the best that can be achieved. In fact, a great international propaganda campaign is underway to convince people - particularly young people - that this not only is what they should feel but that it's what they do feel."

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Love you. - Mom

Delusion is not the solution to climate change pollution. – Hamish Wilson 

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Federal government to cut environmental spending

The Harper government is projecting some major cuts to several of its environmental initiatives, including climate change and clean air, over the next year, according to newly released federal estimates.

 http://www.canada.com/business/Federal+government+environmental+spending/4367709/story.html

ACTION ALERT: Budget cuts to Environment Canada are unacceptable
News agencies are reporting that the Harper government is planning a $222-million or 20% reduction in spending at Environment Canada.

This includes a $141 million cut to climate change and clean air initiatives, as well as a $19.5-million cut to a federal action plan dealing with contaminated federal sites, and about $3-million in reductions for compliance promotion and enforcement for wildlife and pollution.

Meanwhile, in 2010 to 2011, Environment Canada’s program activities amount to just over one billion dollars while National Defence spending is over twenty billion. This is further evidence that the Harper government is out of step with the views of Canadians.

According to recent Environics poll, seventy-one percent of Canadians strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement, "money spent on wars and the military would all be better spent on efforts that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change.”

TAKE ACTION!

Tell the Prime Minister, Environment Minister Peter Kent and the leaders of the opposition that you are opposed to this decision. Send them a letter here:

http://canadians.org/action/2011/env-can-cutbacks.html

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NASA scientist James Hansen on climate change and carbon pricing

Catch this great 8 min. video interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Mhy85pHYM&feature=player_embedded

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Ask Your Doctor About Meat™

2 min. youtube video – ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_84ItZvU64&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak

The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator, but against a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people's triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism.

http://www.truth-out.org/behind-arab-revolt-a-word-we-dare-not-speak68036 

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These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift
George Monbiot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/dec/13/astroturf-libertarians-internet-democracy?INTCMP=SRCH

Robot Wars
Online astroturfing is more advanced and more automated than we’d imagined.
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/02/23/robot-wars/ 

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Antidepressants: The Emperor's New Drugs?

More than half of the clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies showed no significant difference at all between drug and placebo. What they did find was differences in side effects, like nausea and sexual dysfunction, produced by antidepressants; and the FDA later determined that SSRIs, the most common type of antidepressants, actually increases the risk of suicide for children, adolescents and young adults. So why did the FDA approve these drugs?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irving-kirsch-phd/antidepressants-the-emper_b_442205.html 

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A Silent Forest
The Growing Threat  - Genetically Engineered Trees

A 45 minute video with David Suzuki
http://www.localssupportinglocals.ca/videos/silent-forest-growing-threat-genetically-engineered-trees

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Sustainable activism	

A conversation with David Suzuki on his 75th birthday

http://www.commonground.ca/iss/236/cg236_interview.shtml

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Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.

Right-wing ideologues are imposing a harsher, more unequal, less democratic society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/opinion/25krugman.html

On Wisconsin and America

We are now having a major dispute about what kind of society America should be.  Corporate plutocracy or a working democracy?

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2011/000340.html 

Main Street Movement Erupts As Thousands Across Country Protest War On The Middle Class

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/24/main-street-movement-thousands/ 

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The F Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist?

A CBC Doc Zone documentary

Thursday March 3, 2011 at 9 pm on CBC-TV
Repeating: Friday March 4, 2011 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
And after that, watch it online:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2011/fword/index.html (xxxxxxx check link)

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Joke
A unionized public employee, a citizen, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the ill-informed citizen and says, "Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie."

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