'EXTINCTION CRISIS': Nature in worst shape in human history, UN report says
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Your new selfie labeling machine works well!
Come on, fess up! You wish you had a gun right now and the courage to use it, don't you?
Your new selfie labeling machine works well!
Come on, fess up! You wish you had a gun right now and the courage to use it, don't you?
Dead Bodies Keep Moving For More Than a Year After Death, Forensic Scientist Finds
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-wri...ses-move-around-quite-a-bit-as-they-decompose
They keep posting, anyway.
You do realize that some parks in Africa use big game hunting as a means of raising income to keep the park going, right? The hunts are organized to go after specific individual animals, ie: the sick, old or dying. People get to enjoy the "thrill" of a big game hunt, the animal is put out of its suffering and the park raises funds to keep operating.
No corruption in the African parks systems, no siree.
The last rhino in the world is worth a shiny, new Mercedes for a game warden at the current exchange rate.
Global climate strike: millions protest worldwide – in pictures
More: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...strike-millions-protest-worldwide-in-pictures
More: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...strike-millions-protest-worldwide-in-pictures
Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.
Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. They should have. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count. If we lived in a democracy, which we do not, our aspirations, rights and demands, especially the demand that we confront the climate emergency, would have an impact. We would be able to vote representatives into power in government to carry out change. We would be able to demand environmental justice from the courts. We would be able to divert resources to the elimination of carbon emissions.
Voting, lobbying, petitioning and protesting to induce the ruling elites to respond rationally to the climate catastrophe have proved no more effective than scrofula victims’ appeals to Henry VIII to cure them with a royal touch. The familiar tactics employed over the past few decades by environmentalists have been spectacular failures. In 1900 the burning of fossil fuel—mostly coal—produced about 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. That number had risen threefold by 1950. Today the level is 20 times higher than the 1900 figure. During the last decade the increase in CO2 was 100 to 200 times faster than what the earth experienced during the transition from the last ice age. On May 11 the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded 415.26 parts per million of CO2 in the air. It’s believed to be the highest concentration since humans evolved. We will embrace a new paradigm for resistance or die.
The ruling elites and the corporations they serve are the principal obstacles to change. They cannot be reformed. And this means revolution, which is what Extinction Rebellion seeks in calling for an “international rebellion” on Oct. 7, when it will attempt to shut down city centers around the globe in acts of sustained, mass civil disobedience. Power has to be transferred into our hands. And since the elites won’t give up power willingly, we will have to take it through nonviolent action.
Protests can be the beginning of political consciousness. But they can also be empty political theater. They can be used to celebrate our moral probity—advertisements, especially in the age of social media, for ourselves. They can be a boutique activism in which protesters allow themselves to be funneled through police barricades and arrests are politely choreographed, resulting in a few hours in jail and the credentialing of the demonstrators as radicals. They can be used to distance ourselves from a repugnant political figure such as Donald Trump, while leaving us silent and complicit when the same policies are carried out by a supposed progressive such as Barack Obama. This is a game the state has learned to play to its advantage. As long as we do not disrupt the machine, as long as we protest according to their rules, the elites will let us march through the streets of Washington in pussy hats or walk out of school for a day.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/23/saving-planet-means-overthrowing-ruling-elites
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.
Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. They should have. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count. If we lived in a democracy, which we do not, our aspirations, rights and demands, especially the demand that we confront the climate emergency, would have an impact. We would be able to vote representatives into power in government to carry out change. We would be able to demand environmental justice from the courts. We would be able to divert resources to the elimination of carbon emissions.
Voting, lobbying, petitioning and protesting to induce the ruling elites to respond rationally to the climate catastrophe have proved no more effective than scrofula victims’ appeals to Henry VIII to cure them with a royal touch. The familiar tactics employed over the past few decades by environmentalists have been spectacular failures. In 1900 the burning of fossil fuel—mostly coal—produced about 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. That number had risen threefold by 1950. Today the level is 20 times higher than the 1900 figure. During the last decade the increase in CO2 was 100 to 200 times faster than what the earth experienced during the transition from the last ice age. On May 11 the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded 415.26 parts per million of CO2 in the air. It’s believed to be the highest concentration since humans evolved. We will embrace a new paradigm for resistance or die.
The ruling elites and the corporations they serve are the principal obstacles to change. They cannot be reformed. And this means revolution, which is what Extinction Rebellion seeks in calling for an “international rebellion” on Oct. 7, when it will attempt to shut down city centers around the globe in acts of sustained, mass civil disobedience. Power has to be transferred into our hands. And since the elites won’t give up power willingly, we will have to take it through nonviolent action.
Protests can be the beginning of political consciousness. But they can also be empty political theater. They can be used to celebrate our moral probity—advertisements, especially in the age of social media, for ourselves. They can be a boutique activism in which protesters allow themselves to be funneled through police barricades and arrests are politely choreographed, resulting in a few hours in jail and the credentialing of the demonstrators as radicals. They can be used to distance ourselves from a repugnant political figure such as Donald Trump, while leaving us silent and complicit when the same policies are carried out by a supposed progressive such as Barack Obama. This is a game the state has learned to play to its advantage. As long as we do not disrupt the machine, as long as we protest according to their rules, the elites will let us march through the streets of Washington in pussy hats or walk out of school for a day.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/23/saving-planet-means-overthrowing-ruling-elites
The world is in better shape than ever
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/2...rts-that-prove-the-world-is-better-than-ever/
Progs hate this stuff.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/2...rts-that-prove-the-world-is-better-than-ever/
Progs hate this stuff.
Overthrowing the "Elites" is something preached until the Over-throwers are the Elites....then Uh Oh....& it happens...
EDITORIAL: Rule by climate rebels? No thanks
While Torontonians may be coping with a strike by educational support workers on Monday closing all schools, an additional headache is on the horizon for anyone who walks, bicycles or drives to work using the Bloor St. Viaduct.
Climate change protesters calling themselves the “Extinction Rebellion” say they will shut down the heavily-travelled bridge during the morning rush hour, starting at 8 am, massing at nearby Playter Gardens Park before walking to the bridge.
It’s not an idle threat. The group also plans to shut down heavily-used bridges in Halifax and Vancouver on Monday and has staged mass protests in many cities, causing major traffic disruptions.
It says it believes in “non-violent direct action and civil disobedience for action on the climate crisis,” featuring speeches, street theatre, singing and dancing.
But on Thursday, members sprayed 1,800 litres of fake blood from a decommissioned fire truck onto the streets of London, England during their protest.
Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in April, which brought parts of London to a standstill for over a week, ended with the mass arrest of 1,000 protesters.
We hope organizers of Monday’s demonstration in Toronto are planning a peaceful protest that will end after the morning rush hour.
For now, if you use the Bloor St. Viaduct for your morning commute, make alternate arrangements for Monday and monitor the news during the day regarding the nature and duration of the protest.
We believe in the right to protest and Toronto has many appropriate places to do so, from Nathan Phillips Square to the front lawn at Queen’s Park.
But we also believe any group whose intent is to hijack publicly-owned infrastructure to further their own political agenda should not be permitted to do so.
We’ll leave it to the police to decide at what point, if any, they need to intervene to restore access to the bridge, which is a vital link between the downtown core and the city’s east end.
Extinction Rebellion wants governments to declare we’re in a climate emergency, redundant in Toronto given that city council unanimously did so last week. Canada’s Parliament declared so in June.
They also demand governments achieve net-zero industrial greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, apparently oblivious to the reality that eliminating the use of fossil fuels for energy in six years would result in the extinction of many Canadians in a big, cold, northern country like our own.
Finally, they want governments to create citizens’ assemblies, taking over decision-making on climate action and ecological justice, apparently in the same arbitrary manner they will close the Bloor St. Viaduct.
No thanks.
We believe there are too many organizations today — some environmental but for many other causes as well — who presume their rights to demonstrate supersede the rights of people to go about their lives. They’re wrong.
torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-rule-by-climate-rebels-no-thanks
While Torontonians may be coping with a strike by educational support workers on Monday closing all schools, an additional headache is on the horizon for anyone who walks, bicycles or drives to work using the Bloor St. Viaduct.
Climate change protesters calling themselves the “Extinction Rebellion” say they will shut down the heavily-travelled bridge during the morning rush hour, starting at 8 am, massing at nearby Playter Gardens Park before walking to the bridge.
It’s not an idle threat. The group also plans to shut down heavily-used bridges in Halifax and Vancouver on Monday and has staged mass protests in many cities, causing major traffic disruptions.
It says it believes in “non-violent direct action and civil disobedience for action on the climate crisis,” featuring speeches, street theatre, singing and dancing.
But on Thursday, members sprayed 1,800 litres of fake blood from a decommissioned fire truck onto the streets of London, England during their protest.
Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in April, which brought parts of London to a standstill for over a week, ended with the mass arrest of 1,000 protesters.
We hope organizers of Monday’s demonstration in Toronto are planning a peaceful protest that will end after the morning rush hour.
For now, if you use the Bloor St. Viaduct for your morning commute, make alternate arrangements for Monday and monitor the news during the day regarding the nature and duration of the protest.
We believe in the right to protest and Toronto has many appropriate places to do so, from Nathan Phillips Square to the front lawn at Queen’s Park.
But we also believe any group whose intent is to hijack publicly-owned infrastructure to further their own political agenda should not be permitted to do so.
We’ll leave it to the police to decide at what point, if any, they need to intervene to restore access to the bridge, which is a vital link between the downtown core and the city’s east end.
Extinction Rebellion wants governments to declare we’re in a climate emergency, redundant in Toronto given that city council unanimously did so last week. Canada’s Parliament declared so in June.
They also demand governments achieve net-zero industrial greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, apparently oblivious to the reality that eliminating the use of fossil fuels for energy in six years would result in the extinction of many Canadians in a big, cold, northern country like our own.
Finally, they want governments to create citizens’ assemblies, taking over decision-making on climate action and ecological justice, apparently in the same arbitrary manner they will close the Bloor St. Viaduct.
No thanks.
We believe there are too many organizations today — some environmental but for many other causes as well — who presume their rights to demonstrate supersede the rights of people to go about their lives. They’re wrong.
torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-rule-by-climate-rebels-no-thanks
They shutdown a bridge in Edmonton this morning, the city was pissed I bet that won't happen again.