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"The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46.2 million last year, according to the new Census numbers. The poverty line is set pretty low however, and since a third of Americans have no net worth, the real number in poverty, or at best only one bad turn away from it, is probably well in excess of 100 million. In fact since medical bills can wipe out a person with a couple of million in assets, who isn’t “poor” in American? Only the few at the top, and that’s the way they like it."
Read the rest at the link (and kiss your good life goodbye)."The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46.2... more
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“The crops that we grow are the basis of our civilization,” Todd Leake said. “If anything belongs in the public domain it is the crops we grow for food.”
President Barack Obama's administration has been investigating monopoly concentration in the seed business for over two years. But when the President spoke on the steps of the Seed Savers Exchange, an independent seed company, he didn't mention tht inquiry once. Nor did he talk about business concentration in other areas of agriculture, despite hearings held by his Department of Justice all over rural America.
Last week President Obama held a town hall meeting on the grounds of Iowa’s Seed Savers Exchange, an organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
The stop was part of a larger strategy to appeal to rural voters as the campaign season begins. The president spoke about job creation and the gridlock on Capitol Hill, both issues of concern, to be sure.
But what would have really resonated with rural America is a re-commitment to working toward fairness in our farm fields.
The President should know that growing economic opportunities in rural America will take confronting the concentrated market power (and thus political and legislative power) in several agricultural industries. It will take fulfilling a campaign promise to fight for family farmers and ranchers by ensuring fair and transparent markets.
The President couldn’t have picked a better spot to make this point. His venue, Seed Savers, is home to a trove of genetically diverse seed. It is the perfect counterpoint to the alarming extent to which ownership of this vital resource is privatized and concentrated. The top three firms, for example, account for more than 75 percent of U.S. corn seed sales.
Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world, receiving royalties from nearly every acre of corn, soybeans, and cotton planted in the U.S.; it also has a hand in much of the vegetable and sugar beet seed supply. Indeed, this level of control over our plant genetic resources and the narrowing of diversity makes the mission of groups like Seed Savers Exchange so much more important.
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Monsanto has a lock on the soy and corn seed market.
Confronting the business concentration in the seed business is paramount for the success of farmers, especially new farmers and businesses seeking to cultivate a niche in agriculture. But just as seeds as an organism are complex, so is untangling the roots of seed concentration.
And this gets us back to President Obama’s missed opportunity at Seed Savers Exchange.
President Obama’s administration initially signaled a willingness to tackle the problem of monopoly in the seed business. His Justice and Agriculture departments held workshops last year on all aspects of agricultural competition.
These hearings were unprecedented. Farmers, ranchers, farm advocacy organizations, small businesses, and consumers were encouraged that the agencies were investigating consolidation in the seed, livestock, dairy, poultry, and food retail industries.
“We’ve waited a long time for justice in the heartland,” said Missouri state senator and farmer Wes Shoemyer at the first Justice/Agriculture workshop in Ankeney, Iowa, which focused in part on problems in the seed industry.
But the hope was short-lived. There is no indication that either agency is furthering these investigations or taking meaningful action on outcomes of the investigations. The agencies don’t even seem inclined to publish a report in response to the thousands of public comments personally delivered at the 2010 workshops.
And then the President appears at Seed Savers Exchange to talk about the rural economy and doesn’t mention seeds or any of the other issues brought up in his own administration’s workshops.
It would behoove the President to look at the comments received at these workshops before he talks about the rural economy. Tucked within the thousands of comments the agencies received are both evidence of the problems with too much concentration in the seed business and reasonable solutions.
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“So how do we fix the industry?” Nelson asked. “I say we disallow any monopolies and the anticompetitive activities that come with them...I think we have to re-examine the safety and wisdom of granting long-term patents on living things.”
Indeed, even the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Christine Varney, who has since left Justice, highlighted the problem of patents in her opening remarks: “You know, patents have in the past been used to maintain or extend monopolies, and that's illegal, and you can be sure, Secretary, that we are going to be looking very closely at any attempt to maintain or extend a monopoly through an abuse of patent laws.”
Such abuse of patent law has come in a variety of forms. Nelson said he’s witnessed the misuse of confidential GMO seed contracts, aggressively enforced through patent rights.
Indiana farmer David Runyon took to the microphone to recount his experience of being wrongfully pursued by Monsanto for alleged patent infringement. It turned out his conventional varieties of soybeans were contaminated by GMO material. He laid out the need to transfer liability to the patent holder in such events so that farmers aren’t pitted against each other.
“In my case whom do I sue but my neighboring farmers?” Runyon asked. “Because they are taking the liability when they sign that contract. And that's wrong. That's why it should go back to [the] patent holder.”
Woven within many comments was a plea for USDA to protect genetic diversity in seeds and breeds, and to keep germplasm public and accessible to our public land grant universities.
“The crops that we grow are the basis of our civilization,” Todd Leake said. “If anything belongs in the public domain it is the crops we grow for food.”
Fred Kirschenmann operates an organic farm in North Dakota and also serves as a distinguished fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. He told the Obama administration officials, “We have lost about three-fourths of our crop seed stock -- that is the varieties of seeds that farmers have had available -- and about 30 percent of our livestock breeds, and as we move into a more uncertain future with more uncertain climates…we're going to need more diversity, not less, that are going to be locally adapted to these local conditions.”
Kirschenmann and others also pointed out that the future of our food supply relies on bringing young people into agriculture, which means ensuring they have a fair fighting chance at a profit.
“I believe our government has an obligation written in law not to pick winners and losers but to act as a referee and ensure the laws and regulations dealing with anticompetitive practices are enforced,” Nelson said.
These farmers’ messages were loud and clear, but they appear to have fallen on deaf ears. There has been no action (or even a peep) out of the Department of Justice. And President Obama didn’t mention his administration’s two-year investigation into the seed business when he spoke at the front door of an independent seed company.
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Wendy Johnston with Oakwyn Farms in Athens, West Virginia, is deeply concerned about how shifting weather patterns are impacting farmers' ability to feed the global population.
"This year we're off to a slow start," Johnston, who farms 40 hectares, told Al Jazeera. "Last year in April we were able to plant, but this year we even had rain, cold and snow a few days in April. The weather has become very unpredictable, and that's the real problem."
Climate change is making farming more difficult for her, and she wonders how much worse things will become.
On March 31, The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned of "potentially catastrophic" impacts on food production from slow-onset climate changes that are expected to increasingly hit the developing world.
The report filed with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, warned that food production systems and the ecosystems they depend on are highly sensitive to climate variability and change.
Changes in temperature, precipitation, and related outbreaks of pest and diseases could reduce production, the report said. Those particularly vulnerable are poor people in countries that rely on food imports, although climate change events are already driving up food costs around the globe, including in developed countries.
April broke many weather-related monthly records in the US, including 292 tornadoes and 5,400 extreme weather events, which combined to cause 337 deaths.
The US National Climatic Data Center announced in June that April's weather extremes were "unprecedented" and "never before" seen in a single month. The center also noted drought across the southern plains, wildfires in the southwest, and record floods along the Mississippi River.
China has been wracked by both severe drought and severe flooding this year, both resulting from climate change induced shifting weather patterns [GALLO/GETTY]
"Severe weather events around the world will increase, even parts of the globe that don't normally see extreme weather events," said Steff Gaulter, Al Jazeera's senior weather presenter. "Those parts of the world that already struggle with water shortages will find matters worsening, including Australia, Mexico, the southwest United States, and parts of Africa."
Gaulter agrees with the FAO that poorer countries are likely to be the worst affected because they have less resources to cope with disasters.
"With worsening water-shortages, there will be more crop-failures, which means an increase in malnutrition," she added. "There is also likely to be an increase in disease as people drink water that is unsuitable for consumption. All of this is an added expense that will be particularly punishing for poorer regions to endure, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa."
Approximately 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa currently lack access to clean drinking water.
"It is also estimated that by 2020, an additional 75 to 250 million people there will also face water shortages," said Gaulter. "That's in less than ten years."
Soil in peril
Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, believes it is time to emphasize the link between extreme weather and the global climate in which it develops.
"The environment in which all storms form has changed owing to human activities. In particular, it is warmer and more moist than it was 30 or 40 years ago," Dr Trenberth said.
"We have this extra water vapour lurking around waiting for storms to develop and then there is more moisture as well as heat that is available for these storms [to form]. The models suggest it is going to get drier in the subtropics, wetter in the monsoon trough and wetter at higher latitudes. This is the pattern we're already seeing."
Climate change has generated shifting weather patterns and extreme weather events that make it more difficult for farmers to feed us. A reliance upon non-renewable energy is also a factor in impending food crises.
Professor Michael Bomford, a research scientist at Kentucky State University and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, is concerned about how our dependence on oil to feed ourselves is leading to soil depletion and degradation, as well as increasing prices.
"The farm is a very small proportion of the economy in the US and other developed countries, but it has a disproportionate impact on global change," Professor Bomford, who has a Master's of Pest Management and a PhD in Plant and Soil Sciences, told Al Jazeera. "Clearing land for farming releases carbon into the atmosphere and that contributes to climate change. Then by farming it, using cultivation causes soil to be lost in wind and erosion, and that topsoil took thousands of years to form. One extreme weather event can cause us to lose thousands of years of soil."
Modern farming impacts soil by the use of nitrogen fertilizers, which are energy intensive to produce and which deplete carbon in the soil.
"This erodes the soil's ability to hold nutrients, and starts a positive feedback loop," added Professor Bomford. "A lot of our soils now rely on irrigation rather than rainfall, which depletes groundwater reserves, and these have huge impacts on the soil."
William Ryerson, founder and president of the Population Media Center and president of the Population Institute, is also very concerned about fertilizers' impact on soil. He has questioned how, in the long run, this will impact agriculture.
More at the linkWendy Johnston with Oakwyn Farms in Athens, West Virginia, is deeply concerned about... more
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Suzy Dean takes government intervention on alcohol to task in this spikey on the sofa discussion. Are we incapable of deciding for ourselves or with our peers what, when, where and how much we drink? Do the army of advisors and advice from students unions to health professionals see us all as out of control victims of the demon drink and treat us like children? Should our social lives be controlled by the new temperance police and is it any of the state’s business what we consume? Suzy is clear the alcohol police will harm more than our livers, but not everyone agrees.Suzy Dean takes government intervention on alcohol to task in this spikey on the sofa... more
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Linkages between the Libyan uprising and shelling out more money than usual at a local market in the West may not at first seem apparent but the common denominator is oil. Muammar Gaddafi’s grip on power is not the sole interest of the international community. It is also the intense pressure on global food prices due to oil price inflation, which has skyrocketed to 108 U.S. dollar per barrel and could hit record levels of 147 dollar, a peak unseen since the July 2008 financial crash.
http://simbarusseau.com/libya-uprising-hits-wests-dinner-tables/Linkages between the Libyan uprising and shelling out more money than usual at a local... more
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The latest release of Apple, the iPad 2 is the latest example of the ability of the company’s Cupertino and Steve Jobs for jaw-dropping half the world with their new aesthetic .The latest release of Apple, the iPad 2 is the latest example of the ability of the... more
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We've all heard it over and over again, "September 11th changed everything". The turmoil in the Middle East is about to make us eat those words. From that day forward America has been spiraling down a path of self destruction and "our chickens are coming home to roost". Wars that we entered over lies, taking from the poor and giving to the rich, psy-ops and propaganda on American citizens and dignitaries, mercenaries for hire and more wars that create more wars. All across the world people are saying "we've had enough". Protests and regime changes are happening all across the Middle East and now we're seeing the unrest in America. Gas prices will rise and as they rise so will the price of eveything else and so will the crime rates.
When we invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq we opened up a hornet's nest that is proving impossible to exterminate. Like dominoes, American and CIA supported dictators are toppling one after another. This is due to a combination of factors. First, our prescence alone and every insurgent or civilian death just creates more anger and more terrorism. Second, the expense of these wars caused the destruction of the American economy which then destroyed the World's economy. Greed is the reason for all of this.
In April 2010 I was hired as a roaming photographer for a J.P. Morgan Chase high roller meeting at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington. I was just supposed to take some pictures of the event. The decorations and then each person separatedly for a take home souvenir was supplied. None of the staff could speak English except for the bankers and their hosts.
I'm not sure if I was supposed to come in during the lecture but I stood in the back of the room and nobody seemed to pay any attention to me. Besides, I don't think they expected the photographer to understand what they were talking about. A man named Stu Schweitzer was the guest speaker for the day.
Mr. Schweitzer spoke for about an hour but the parts you'll be interested in will make you mad. He claimed that the bailout was unnecessary because the banks weren't in need of money. We took from the poor and gave to the rich. The "crash" was by design, he said, and the crowd all laughed. He also stated that the reason they are calling it a "jobless recovery" was that the banks were fine but the jobs would not return. Again, the room filled with laughter. He then asked a Texas banker to explain to everyone how his branch was now turning to large corporate loans because housing loans and the middle class would not return. You got it, plenty of laughter. He then talked about the yearly retreat and explained how it had to be moved from the normal five star resort out west to a hotel in Times Square. This was done so the American public wouldn't know they had been deceived, he stated. He noted, however, that it was still a five star hotel. This gained him the most laughter of the night.
Wiki-leaks recently announced that Saudi Arabia may have overstated their oil reserves by 40%. This caused an immediate rise in oil prices.
Yesterday, America announced that, after discussions with NATO, sanctions would be enforced on Libya. Again, prices of oil are spiking.
These higher gas prices will hamper the global economy. A bad economy doesn't always mean higher crime rates. The San Fernando Valley and others have seen some of the lowest crime rates in decades. Crime rates fell about one third between 1934 and 1938 while the nation was struggling to emerge from the Great Depression and weathering another severe economic downturn in 1937 and 1938. However, we are facing a tsunami of issues beyond gas prices, high food prices and the failing economy.
Read the rest of the story at the link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/turmoil-libya-will-increase-crime-rates-lexington-ky-and-more
MonkeyFilms aka Christopher HigniteWe've all heard it over and over again, "September 11th changed... more
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McDonald’s, the world's largest restaurant chain, has announced its plans to hike the price of some of the items on its menu.McDonald’s, the world's largest restaurant chain, has announced its plans... more
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For the first time since 2008, inflation is hitting consumers in the stomach.
Grocery prices grew by more than 1 1/2 times the overall rate of inflation this year, outpaced only by costs of transportation and medical care, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Economists predict that this is only the beginning. Fueled by the higher costs of wheat, sugar, corn, soybeans and energy, shoppers could see as much as a 4 percent increase at the supermarket checkout next year.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/16/MN571GQRDL.DTLFor the first time since 2008, inflation is hitting consumers in the stomach.... more
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A new study suggests that the United States could do better when it comes to home ISP prices. The Technology Policy Institute's latest survey of the global high speed Internet market finds that US residential broadband subscription rates have "remained fairly stable" over the last three years, rising by just two percent.
That's good, of course, since they didn't go way up. But residential broadband prices have fallen in most other countries, the paper notes—in some instances by as much as 40 percent.
The survey also found that prices in the United States for "triple play" plans are some of the most expensive among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member nations.
Why the price gap? The paper emphasizes that "it does not evaluate the policies and other influences that impact those prices," but does note that many other nations require their big ISPs to "unbundle" or open their networks to small broadband providers at wholesale rates.
"Few countries actively regulate retail broadband prices, but every country that mandates network unbundling necessarily regulates wholesale prices," the TPI survey observes. "Wholesale prices are part of an ISP's costs, meaning that wholesale price regulation can affect retail prices. Thus it may not be surprising that the biggest price decreases have occurred in the EU [European Union], where wholesale prices for full unbundled loop access fell by about 10 percent between 2007 and 2009."
Looks like we're right back in the line sharing debate again. Late last year a Federal Communications Commission study concluded that unbundling works—consumers around the world enjoy better service because of it. Scientific American agrees, while the author of the FCC's National Broadband Plan is a skeptic. These new observations on pricing come from a think tank supported by AT&T and Verizon, and both of them oppose extending the concept here in the US.A new study suggests that the United States could do better when it comes to home ISP... more
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Rob Dickens was in charge of Warner Music during years of Madonna, REM and Simply Red (83-98) and has with the already declining sale of albums it is time for the industry to sell them for £1 to combat piracy.
"If record labels made the decision to charge much less, fans would not think twice about buying an album on impulse and the resulting sales boost would make up for the price drop, he predicted. [...] He added: "To a degree it solves piracy because if it's such a small amount people are more likely to pay it than [download for] free." In his scenario, record labels would be able to make "big money" from other sources such as gig tickets and merchandising."-BBC
However, the idea was criticised by some arguing no one in the industry would put prices that low and claimed he was out of touch. Along with Chris Cook an editor for CMU who said it would be resisted by the industry, since the risk would mean prices won't go up again.Rob Dickens was in charge of Warner Music during years of Madonna, REM and Simply Red... more
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From reading the article you can analyse this in different ways, either the prices are because of touts, from online sales, venue profit making plans or the music industry looking for profits in tours instead of album sales.
Either way, when going to the O2 it sounds like you cannot be guaranteed to creep to the front unless you've brought a 'platinum ticket'. If the 'better view' ticket system works then it might be used by more big venues, since I recall some bands let early arrivals get a free wristband to a zone set at the front of the stage.
"Some bands appearing at the 23,000-seat venue seem to have avoided the temptation to charge Platinum prices, so tickets including service charge for Peter Kay, the comedian, cost £40, Shakira £45, Roxy Music £67, and Lady Gaga £84, including the best seats.
However, other bands appear to be taking advantage of the Platinum system to maximise their profits. Two seats in block A2 for Jean Michel Jarre's show next month cost £195, against a normal face value of £51. Only one Platinum ticket is left for Supertramp, at a cost of £204. At £98 each, Platinum tickets for the Australian comedian Tim Minchin on 14 December are double the normal £44 face value."-Independent
IMO, it is strange to says high price tickets are a tout reaction system, since some football venues use a membership oyster card system that in theory might reduce the sale of paper tickets, which are easily toutable. Though higher prices for certain seats are not a surprise since festivals and touring are more popular at the moment.From reading the article you can analyse this in different ways, either the prices are... more
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A record increase food prices has kept inflation above 3 per cent and sparked warnings that the cost of living will keep rising.
:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/7950492/Record-jump-in-food-prices-keeps-inflation-high.htmlA record increase food prices has kept inflation above 3 per cent and sparked warnings... more
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Financial crossover occurred in North Carolina, bringing new opportunities
Duke University has reported that solar energy costs are now cheaper than nuclear energy costs after a "historic crossover" in North Carolina. (http://cleantechnica.com/2010/08/01/historic-report-solar-energy-costs-now-lower-than-nuclear-energy/)
The paper on this topic(http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/NCW-SolarReport_final1.pdf) was written by John O. Blackburn, professor of economics at Duke University in North Carolina, and Sam Cunningham, a graduate student at Duke. The paper is titled "Solar and Nuclear Costs - The Historic Crossover," and shows that change in costs on both solar and nuclear energy has finally forced them to meet, and then solar stole the show by becoming the new low-in-price renewable energy resource.
Solar energy is a clean renewable energy resource that doesn't present much risk, but the problem has been that it's too expensive for everyone to implement. On the other hand, there is nuclear energy, which has several risks associated with using it such as damage to the environment from uranium mining, the possible creation of nuclear weapons and issues with the transportation and storage of nuclear waste. But until now, nuclear energy has always been cheaper to use.
Over the past decade or so(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/business/global/27iht-renuke.html), nuclear energy costs have been rising while solar energy costs have been falling. According to Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and Environment, costs for nuclear energy have increased dramatically from $3 billion per reactor in 2002 to $10 billion per reactor in 2010. What's worse is that these prices are expected to climb, and U.S. taxpayers could end up paying hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars "more than needed to achieve our low carbon goals" if the government helps push the use of nuclear energy(http://www.dailytech.com/Decreased+Oil+Dependency+Leads+to+Nuclear+Revival+/article19035.htm), which is exactly what it's doing.
While nuclear power companies are obviously pushing for nuclear energy use in the U.S. hoping for loan guarantees, tax credits and subsidies, it looks as though government on both the federal and state levels are pushing for it as well, according to Diana Powers of The New York Times.
"From 1943 to 1999, the U.S. government paid nearly $151 billion, in 1999 dollars, in subsidies for wind, solar and nuclear power, Marshall Goldberg of the Renewable Energy Policy Project, a research organization in Washington, wrote in a July 2000 report," wrote Powers. "Of this total, 96.3 percent went to nuclear power.
"At the state level, the industry has also pressed the case for 'construction work in progress,' a financing system that requires electricity users to pay for the cost of new reactors during their construction and sometimes before construction starts. With long construction periods and frequent delays, this can mean that electricity users start to pay higher prices as much as 12 years before the plants produce electricity."
But now that Blackburn and Cunningham have showed that solar energy costs(http://www.dailytech.com/US+Navy+Pours+100M+USD+Into+Clean+Solar+Energy/article19182.htm) have met nuclear energy costs, which occurred at 16 cents per kilowatt hour, then fell below nuclear costs, there is hope that the push for nuclear will slow down and that the government may look to a combination of solar and other renewable energy resources that are low carbon and low cost.
"Everyone should understand that both new solar and new nuclear power will cost more than present electricity generation costs," Blackburn and Cunningham's paper states. "That is, electricity costs will rise in any case for most customers, especially those who do not institute substantial energy efficiency upgrades. Power bills will rise much less with solar generation than with increased reliance on new nuclear generation."
Blackburn and Cunningham see great opportunity for North Carolina - and eventually other U.S. states(http://www.dailytech.com/Nevada+and+Sicily+Look+to+Molten+Salt+for+Solar+Storage/article19212.htm) - with these new findings, and hope that lower costs of solar, which is much less hazardous than nuclear, will be implemented. According to their paper, commercial-scale solar companies are already "offering utilities electricity at 14 cents or less per kWh" while nuclear plants would generate electricity at 14 to 18 cents per kWh.Financial crossover occurred in North Carolina, bringing new opportunities
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This morning, starting at 5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers shut down 50 BP stations across London.
The activists stopped the flow of gas to the pumps by removing the safety switches from the pumps, operating the safety shutdown, and closing the pumps. Greenpeace's volunteers plan to return all the switches later but until then the pumps will be out of action.
The teams - each named after an animal threatened by BP's reckless oil exploration - fanned out across the capital in their electric and hybrid cars, going station to station and disabling the pumps.
Why on July 27th? Because BP is expected to announce the appointment of Bob Dudley as the company's new head to replace the screw-up prone Tony Hayward, who led BP during the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/27/bp-stations-pumps-closed-greenpeace
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You can never go wrong with green cleaning services, it's not only much safer for your home, business, office, apartment and even commercial buildings, but it's also much safer for our planet. There are several green cleaning companies popping up and there's no reason that you couldn't find one near you (well if you don't then there's your big business opportunity!).
If you're in the Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco or just East Bay area in general, make sure to support Winfield Workers because he's not only using biodegradable products that are better for our environment and our health, he's also helping out his community by hiring second offenders youth and teens and sending them to training such as the Mandela Project where they have green certification training programs.
What an amazing company, way to go above and beyond! Go green with your cleaning services!You can never go wrong with green cleaning services, it's not only much safer for... more
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Notice: I am not encouraging violence, but I feel the need to say that I might violently resist if forced vaccinations are upon me or forced microchipping because the US Government has never cared about diseases or curing them unless theres a profit in them so I won’t ever trust all judgments to be made by the US Government or any Government. Also factual evidence is after my civil war and other political prophecies area where you can read the facts that point us towards the possibility that civil war can happen against the US Government soon.
I am not usually considered a prophet and shouldn’t be because theres so much going on it’s easy to usually figure out whats going on. I know that a civil war is coming soon, even though for years I felt like that was going to be some form of a civil war, and now evidence is popping up that civil war is eminent in the United States because of the rising violence against the health care law, and even I am now making threats against forced vaccinations on facebook that if they force inject me I would join a revolution and resist the vaccines. People have replied that I should comply with forced vaccinations but I refuse and rather die because the vaccines harm my behavior patterns and cause my anger to increase at high levels.
Even I feel the increasing rage against the Obama Administration not just in myself but in many Americans around the whole country. I have to get this out or else I will probably explode with fear and rage against the Obama Administration for socializing health care and student loans. I feel as if a civil war is about to happen if the health care law is not repealed or if the US Government doesn’t give us our rights to free will, you know to freely refuse drugs and vaccines as we see fit with our bodies. If that does not happen, you know where I have the right to simply refuse vaccinations under good reason, and also if they force vaccinations I can’t guarantee that I won’t violently rebel because I rather die as a free man then as a poisoned slave and a robot.
Now here is why I am now bringing out my past prophecy that there will be a civil war against the US Government, because it will happen if the US Government that keeps failing it’s people keeps pushing it’s people, takes away their rights to their free will, because free will alows people to be able to make decisions on our own and suffer the consequences for our actions instead of going to prison over every little control law, and if the US Government ever forces people into tyranny without the right to protest or speak out it will lead to violent confrontation instead of diplomacy which is essential to a peaceful republic.
More and more the US Government is relying less and less on diplomatic solutions and relying more and more on brute force techniques, torturing to get the truth out of terrorism suspects, and going to war with many different countries and thus making it very easy to slip into war.
The country is on the verge of collapse yet the US Government acts like the economy is going to get better yet is nothing but a big lie to cover up the fact that the economy is in freefall.
Now the rest of my predictions that have come true were that the Internet was going to become more controlled (prophecy correct), the Internet was going to be shut down by the US Government (Hasn’t happened yet), Barack Obama was going to bring back the racial segregation because of his preacher to divide and conquer this nation (prophecy partially correct due to the Ibama racial college policy article and prophecy was stated last year on a unreleased recorded video) in the war of freedom fighters against the US Government, Obama was going to be shot in the head to gather sympathy for his deceitful cause and to jumpstart martial law (Hasn’t happened yet), Obama will reveal his true colors to the people as they find out the truth about him slowly (Happening right now so not really a prophecy), a civil war will emerge against the US Government for taking away body rights and approving a genocide bill as law (Prophecy coming true cause of increased violence, threats against members of congress, local militias being targeted by the Government under US Government propaganda that militias are planning to kill police officers then waste their weapons to attack funerals), the Taliban or Islam plan to pass a sheria law in the USA to oppress womens rights to freely walk on her land that she must stay indoors forever unless she is with her husband (Hasn’t happened yet), US Citizens will be held at gun point by mind controlled military combatants and then taken to FEMA Camps(Hasn’t happened yet), and more prophecies I have made but can’t think of them right now because I am overwhelmed with fear due to the health care disform law passing.
Also these are the factual evidence and not prophecies why civil war is imminent in America.
First of all theres a CNN Video I mirrored and re-encoded on my site as a self flash player showing the violent threats against the congressmen and congresswomen and that ones believes he may be a dead man, strawberry farmers are spitting at the Governments face by destroying strawberries in front of the camera, militia getting ready to start war against the US Government and preclaiming they are going to war against the anti-christ but got arrested before they could start up a civil war, increasing threats against US Congress, and more.
So it seems like civil war is now imminent as people are afraid of forced microchipping, forced vaccinations, forced health insurance, and if Obama now uses an executive order to pass CO2 then gas prices will go up by 77%, 50% more on our household utilities and our country will lose more jobs. If that happens our only hope may be a civil resistance war against the US Government because trying to remain peaceful will be too late when everyone is kicked out of their homes, and the whole countries economic system
finally collapses for good.
We’re in a crises and during times where death happens to a country it’s civil war for survival because by then the government may not save you or help your family.Notice: I am not encouraging violence, but I feel the need to say that I might... more
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