Jude Iam
10-21-2009, 04:24 PM
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Jean also coordinates a weekly international meditational focus. :heart:
Blessings, Judith
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In this new compilation, you'll find 35 pages dedicated to a special Global Ecocide Feature and 46 pages of fresh news, updates, including 4 in-depth articles on the global swine flu scam, plus several articles showing that the US Dollar's dominance is in its death throes - and a whole lot of other stuff as usual - with the whole compilation reaching a staggering 152 pages (over 58,000 words) of reading material which I compiled for you over the past several days...
I know this is insanely dense, but so is the world we live in and the information deluge one can access through the Web.
Since I've already included many comments below, I'll let you dive immediately in it. Oh! and if you do enjoy some of the stuff I network, think about sharing the "fun" with others ;-)
With Love and kindness, as always
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
EARTH RAINBOW NETWORK (https://www.earthrainbownetwork.com)
P.S. Yesterday (Monday, Oct 19), I went kayaking alone on the Saguenay River here - one last time before winter sets in - and had a truly wonderful time taking in the majestic beauty of nature and enjoying the meditative calm of a moment of bliss on this large body of salty water. I took several good pictures and will probably add some of them to the other 42 photos already in my Best Of series for 2009 that I'll soon post on the Web for your enjoyment. One highlight for me was to realize how absolutely everything that was around me, including the 5 trillion cells of my own body, were in perpetual motion as is every single speck of matter and energy in all dimensions of this infinitely vast universe. Thinking of how it must have felt - theoretically - before the Big Bang spasm from Creator Source when there was absolutely no movement and no thing made me realize even more deeply how we all are a sea of energy in movement and an intrinsic part of All that IS... Hard to properly express this bliss-stilling feeling with mere words, but if you ever went "there" in your meditations, you surely get what it means... It sure puts back into proper perspective the sheer insignificance, in the grand scheme of things, of what all 6.5 billions of us are experiencing right now on this still magnificent living planet... Yet when in time we will look back in the akashic records (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records) at this moment in the eternal continuum where so MUCH hangs in the balance with unimaginably profound repercussions for millions of years to come, I'm sure it will all hold a very special place in our collective heart - FOR GOING COLLECTIVE - remembering/reactivating our Oneness - is exactly where we are going/ascending...
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THE QUOTES
"Thank you for creating so much positive energy in a time where it is so much needed. I'm organizing a conference called "Inspired Action, changing the world from the inside out" at the Findhorn Foundation, part of a spiritual community in Scotland. You are very welcome to join in!"
- Message left by Margo van Greta in the ERN guestbook (https://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g35-09010-3a) - Details at Inspired Action - Changing the world from the inside out (https://www.findhorn.org/inspiredaction)
"Today, flu viruses are used like biological weapons to exterminate burgeoning populations. Disease controllers, covertly operating on behalf of the ruling elite, bioengineer mutants and apply multi-disciplinary pseudo-science to quash the accelerating Spiritual Renaissance."
- Leonard G. Horowitz -- Taken from Medical Madness Behind Flu Pandemics (https://www.fluscam.com/Medical_Manchurian_Candidates.html)
"We will either learn to put aside sectarian differences, to recognize all life as one life, to cooperate in sharing earth's bounty, and yield control to a higher power-or we will find ourselves embroiled in ever-more destructive conflicts that will leave the planet in ruins and avail only the meanest form of existence for the few, if any, who survive."
- Thomas Greco -- Taken from The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (https://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14163) below
"Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity's mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of a freely thinking mankind as a single entity. The new state of the biosphere that we are approaching without noticing it is the Noosphere (https://worldshift2012.org/content/first-noosphere-world-congress)."
- Vladimir Vernadsky, The Biosphere - taken from https://www.noosphereforum.org (https://www.noosphereforum.org/)
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CONTENTS
1. The demise of the dollar
2. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
3. The Real reason Behind the Fed Secrecy
4. The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
5. What GM didn't tell you about their electric car
6. The Other Ticking Clock in Iran
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WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Millions to Rally Against Poverty This Weekend (Oct 16) NOTE: That's on top of the 4200+ cities around the world where people will hold 350 rallies - Much more below and at https://www.350.org (https://www.350.org/) - MILLIONS OF US ARE GOING TO ROCK THE GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE BOAT THIS WEEKEND!
Millions to Rally Against Poverty This Weekend - Yahoo! News (https://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20091016/wl_oneworld/world3674311255712706)
Well over 100 million people around the world are expected to "stand up" this weekend to call governments to action on poverty, hunger, and gender inequalities -- a set of global issues that most Americans say they would like their government to fund much more than it has. What's the Story? Last year, some 116 million people worldwide took part in the weekend-long events to "Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" That set a new Guinness World Record for largest mobilization of human beings in recorded history. Organizers are aiming to break that record this year. Participants are calling on their governments to take concrete steps to achieve the so-called Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight targets to cut extreme poverty and hunger in half, reduce HIV/AIDS and child and maternal mortality, get children into school, and ensure women's equality in society, all while protecting the environment. World leaders agreed at a summit in 2000 to commit the funding and implement the programs necessary to achieve the goals by 2015."With just six years left until the deadline ... 'Stand Up' will be a stark reminder that citizens will not accept excuses for governments breaking promises to the world's poorest and most vulnerable citizens," said Salil Shetty, Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, in a statement this week. CLIP Note from Jean: There has been precious few (https://news.google.com/news/more?cf=all&cf=all&ncl=dV-dzzexZKqPiUMwFOfZBeCLkRmcM) articles in the Western media prior to this event and none whatsoever to report what actually happened... - Visit STAND UP 2009 | Stand Against Poverty (https://standagainstpoverty.org/) for more details. Check also Stand Up and Freeze Against Poverty - Flash Mob Freeze (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LU3HJ2lWo0) AND World biggest Freeze Flash Mob in Paris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfrfDmXDb0) - it has an arresting effect! Many more such collective stunts through Improv Everywhere (https://improveverywhere.com/) - like The No Pants! Subway Ride (https://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/)
UN's well-intentioned Millennium Development Goals go unmet (16.10.2009)
UN's well-intentioned Millennium Development Goals go unmet | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 16.10.2009 (https://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4796573,00.html)
With its Millennium Development Goals, the UN aims to halve poverty by the year 2015. As funds are diverted due to the global finance crisis, it's clear that will remain nothing more than a good intention. -- According to the United Nations, anyone who lives on less than $1.25 a day lives in extreme poverty. The good news is, the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C calculated that the number of people under the poverty level worldwide has dropped by 0.6 percent this year, compared to last year. But it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that beating hunger continues to be a major struggle. "We know that we won't achieve the UN Millennium Goals, especially not cutting the number of starving people by half," said Baerbel Dieckmann, president of the Germany-based aid organization Welthungerhilfe While the international community's promise may have been well intended in 2000, it has not yet fulfilled its promises to halve the number of people in poverty, reduce mother and child mortality and provide universal primary school education. Despite a few encouraging examples here and there, the overall outlook is gloomy. Resources that could have gone toward alleviating poverty have been diverted to corporate the victims of the finance crisis. The international relief organization Oxfam estimates that, as a consequence of the global financial crises, an additional 100 people per minute are slipping under the poverty line each day. (...) Sachs is one of the brains behind the plan, and stresses that we have the technical possibility to make those changes. "We already have a global framework," said Sachs. "We have the treaties which are actually our laws, we have promises that we've made. We don't have to keep agonizing, we actually have to implement and what we need is our leadership saying 'We will honor what we've said we would do.'" This could be achieved funneling only 0.7 of a percent of the world's gross national product (GNP) towards the Millennium Development Goals - a proposal that's been on the table for the past 30 years already. It's a question of political will, even in times of economic crisis, said Sachs. Currently Germany contributes around 0.28 percent of its GNP to the Millennium Goals, but plans to increase that to 0.7 percent by 2015, together with other EU member countries.
You Can End Poverty - Make sure to watch this short video!
YouTube - You Can End Poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWzcyXQYm6w)
Imagine Rainbow
Imagine Rainbow (https://www.imagine-rainbow.ch/)
Highly recommended... especially their just released book (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) which embodies... "The creative spirit of the present with its wealth of images, ideas and fields of experience; portraits of initiatives and innovators with their meaningful and diverse projects. Snapshots of a developed yet ever-growing fleece."... with it focus on the rainbow... "A timeless unifying symbol in the fables, myths, religions and visions of mankind, in science, art, dreamtime and in our everyday lives." and the Rainbow Project... "Worldwide projects with Umbul Umbul Flags (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) in the colours of the rainbow; the red thread representing the unity in the diversity of cultures. NOTE from Jean: I received in the mail a complimentary copy of this amazing book - akin to the Whole Earth Catalog but for most everything related to the Rainbow around the world - and was quickly mesmerized by the wealth of initiatives, ideas and pictures (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) it offers - such as this section on Alberto Ruz Buenfil (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html). A real treat for the heart and soul, especially if you are just as fond of the energy of the rainbow as this book's mastermind and long-time ERN subscriber Thomas Bertschi from Switzerland and his friends are. A DVD with several short movies is also included in the book.
UFO tracks Iranian missiles (6 Oct 2009)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2670396/UFO-tracks-Iranian-missiles.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
A UFO streaks through the sky in this astonishing video of the Iranians test firing a controversial missile. The mystery object zooms unseen through Iran's airspace - before splitting a cloud in two as the film focuses in on the soaring rocket. A UFO expert today described the unknown craft - which appears to be tracking the weapon - as "phenomenal". CLIP
'1000ft-long UFOs were NOT Chinese lanterns!' (15 October 2009) (with a video)
'1000ft-long UFOs were NOT Chinese lanterns!' - Lancashire Evening Post (https://www.lep.co.uk/weirdnews/1000ftlong-UFOs-were-NOT-Chinese.5734414.jp)
A Lancashire man claims to have seen 1,000ft UFOs in the skies above Preston being followed by planes and helicopters. (...) "There must have been other people who saw them because they were huge. If you go off the size of a plane, say 60 feet wide. These must have been at least 1,000 feet - that's how big they were."It doesn't look big on there (the phone camera screen) but you can't even see the planes on there - that's how big these are to them. You can't come out with 'they're Chinese lanterns.'"The sighting is the latest in a long list of unexplained reports in Lancashire - particularly Preston. CLIP
Strange Ring Cloud over Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gb2N4mV0C0
Video captured on Oct. 7th, 2009, the west of the capital of Russia. In the skies over Moscow visible cloud of unusual shape. Check also Fallstreak holes / hole punch clouds (https://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa2/mediagallery/gallery.asp?orgid=1&suborgid=1&ssid=&pid=596&uid=&gallcatid=&gallid=5&fileid=) for dozens of pictures of a similar nature, the oldest ones going back to 2004. Then check Hole punch clouds forming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJ6QkIfVwc) - Giant HOLE in the SKY- TAMPA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQRVzsNhTs) - Hole punch clouds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8QMLVbSPUQ) - COULD THESE HOLES BE MADE BY CLOAKED UFO MOTHER SHIPS GENTLY LETTING US KNOW THEY ARE HERE?... That's what a medium was told recently... that we should watch for such increasingly more frequent subtle signs of their presence in our skies as a preparation for the Big Event...
Shape-shifting UFO
YouTube - Канал Discovery заснял НЛО (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRU6NqZ9DU)
ALEX COLLIER at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009
YouTube - ALEX COLLIER at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR46QjXjLH0)
Alex talked in depth and with passion about the problems and challenges that we all face looking towards the future from 2009 - and introduces an intriguing new concept: mentoring in co-operation with our ET allies. Recommended by Barbara Tomczyk ([email protected]) who wrote: "Andromedans would not have asked Alex to come into the public spotlight once more were this not important." Also recommended by Huguette Demers ([email protected]) who wrote: "Alex Collier has not been speaking publicly for years now. I think it is nice that he did recently. He is a contactee, a very serious and wise one. The reason I thought about you is that he is mentioning that Moranee, his contact from space, has said that the coming vaccine will change the DNA of the people receiving it, and I don't think he meant a change that would be welcome. I take that opinion very seriously."
UFOs Orbs Over West Virginia Power Plant
YouTube - UFOs Orbs Over West Virginia Power Plant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_i1QT4zUyc&NR=1)
Probably a computer generated CGI clip - yet it is fascinating!
U.F.O. During Moldova TV News, Eastern Europe, 2008. AWESOME!! (MUST SEE) YouTube - U.F.O During Moldova TV News, Eastern Europe, 2008. AWESOME!! (MUST SEE) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0AfvfNXb0)
Check at 1:20 into this TV newsclip!
Alien Hole Found In Russia
YouTube - Alien Hole Found In Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi3utstlgFI)
Small alien skeleton found
YouTube - little Alien found death (momie allready), God bless him... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJFXgKyEI4)
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist (October 11, 2009)
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist - ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083)
Despite doomsayers, Mayans say 2012 isn't the end of the world as we know it -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared. "It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up." Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?" It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six. CLIP - Note: The highest counter in the Mayan calendar is the alautun, which is an interval of 63 million years. Those who state the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 have not researched the Mayan system carefully. 2012 may be the equivalent of the year 10,000 in the Mayan calendar, which is significant, yet it may end up being but another Y2K. For more, click HERE (https://www.calendarhome.com/converter/mayan.html).
Jos Arguelles-2012 Prophecy- Part 1 (Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRDp5gyGZyo&NR=1) - parts 3 to 10 accessible through the list of related videos)
YouTube - José Arguelles-2012 Prophecy-Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l29O7LhzuuM)
Prof. Jos Arguelles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles), co-discoverer of the Law of Time, author of The Mayan Factor and Time and the Technosphere, among many other works, gives a long presentation during Dr. Chet Snow's Crop Circle Conference on the Prophecy regarding the phase change due at the end of the year 2012 that will take us into the upcoming Psychozooic Era.
Jose Arguelles at the Day Out of Time. Byron Bay, Australia (3 dcembre 2008 - 1:22:04)
YouTube - Jose Arguelles at the Day Out of Time. Byron Bay, Australia (complete) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obqp5M5C6bE)
Jose plays his flute first and starts talking at 10:40 into this video
THE NOOSPHERE COLLECTIVE - CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION - 2012 - ASCENSION
https://www.noosphereforum.org (https://www.noosphereforum.org/)
You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades
YouTube - You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCOYJg9ps4)
Acapella and hand rhythms--makes you smile : )
Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above
Image Gallery: Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above | LiveScience.com (https://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?gid=21)
Microscopic images reveal insects in extreme close-up (20 Oct 2009)
Microscopic images reveal insects in extreme close-up - Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6384852/Microscopic-images-reveal-insects-in-extreme-close-up.html)
A set of stunning pictures have been released which reveal a stunning microscopic world of algae, lobster eggs and soap film. See 20 dazzling pictures through Nikon Small World competition: photographs through the microscope (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6386034/Nikon-Small-World-competition-photographs-through-the-microscope.html)
Flying with Hawks
LiveLeak.com - Flying with Hawks (https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c81_1255966265)
Scott Mason, who uses hawks to detect thermal currents to fly his paraglider through the skies of Nepal, "parahawking". He flies with Egyptian vultures, training them to find warm updrafts.
128' reloaded - Dangerous Organ III - Mighty Pipes
YouTube - 128' reloaded - Dangerous Organ III - Mighty Pipes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ723kL4u9w)
Once upon a time a guy asked a girl "will you marry me?" The girl said,"No!" And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank whole bottles of wine, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, didn't get fat, travelled more, had many lovers, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself. She went to the theatre, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her bum, had high self-esteem, never cried or yelled and felt and looked fabulous all the time.
- THE HAPPIEST FAIRY TALE EVER (https://www.scribd.com/doc/3231869/THE-HAPPIEST-FAIRY-TALE-EVER)!!!
Note de Jean: Si vous habitez au Qubec, vous tes bienvenu-e de venir assister au lancement le 21 novembre prochain l'covillage la Cit cologique Ham Nord du premier Rpertoire des co-communauts du Qubec, suivi d'une confrence en anglais sur la cration d'co-communaut donne par Diana Leafe Christian auteure de Vivre autrement et ancienne rdactrice en chef de la revue amricaine Community Magazine - Voir tous les dtails au Eco Communautes au Qubec: Accueil (https://www.ecocommunautes-qc.org/) - J'y serai!
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SPECIAL GLOBAL ECOCIDE FEATURE
CONTENTS
1. A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
2. Indicators of Ecological Crisis
3. Message from SaLuSa - 19 October 2009
4. Message from Matthew - October 19, 2009
5. The WorldShift 2012 Declaration
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NOTE from Jean: One of the most radical ideas I've seen lately: quickly doing away with our suicidal dependence on oil - through whatever means! - and pulling the plug on industrial capitalism, decried by Derrick Jensen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen) (https://www.derrickjensen.org (https://www.derrickjensen.org/)), amongst others, as the prime force that is killing the planet right now. It might seem rather extreme to most but when you cut through the chase to get to the bottom of this global self-destruction of our sole life support system - our living planet - and when you consider how preciously little has been accomplished so far to turn the tide of destruction, one understands why some would go as far as advocating what is suggested below... Industrial capitalism is definitely like a huge cancer eating out what's left of vital planetary resources to feed the bottomless greed of a relatively small group of people seemingly oblivious to the sheer consequences of their plush lifestyle and reckless pursuit of ever more wealth. As for cancer, we have two main options: you remove it forcefully and take whatever bitter pills are necessary to prevent its return, or you shift entirely away from fear and tap the infinitely healing power of LOVE to remedy at the source - at soul level - what's wrong in us and gradually nurture global Life and our global innate immune system back to complete health and harmonious balance. One option is akin to going to war against much of what our fear-based (fear of scarcity, fear of the other, fear of fear) civilization stands for - and it can definitely get nasty. The other one is more like making peace with oneself, Letting Love Flow through every thought, word and action so as to be utterly harmless and benevolent to all, and standing in our Highest Truth with the inner resilience of the willow bending wisely with the storm knowing it is much more likely to survive it unharmed than the mighty stiff oak priding itself of being the strongest tree around...
From: Truthdig - Reports - A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction (https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/)
A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
By Chris Hedges - Oct 18, 2009
We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/26/350-carbon-atmosphere-copenhagen-mckibben) over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. We can compost in our backyard. But unless we dismantle the corporate state, all those actions will be just as ineffective as the Ghost Dance shirts donned by native American warriors to protect themselves from the bullets of white soldiers at Wounded Knee.
"If we all wait for the great, glorious revolution there won't be anything left," author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen told me when I interviewed him in a phone call to his home in California. "If all we do is reform work, this culture will grind away. This work is necessary, but not sufficient. We need to use whatever means are necessary to stop this culture from killing the planet. We need to target and take down the industrial infrastructure that is systematically dismembering the planet. Industrial civilization is functionally incompatible with life on the planet, and is murdering the planet. We need to do whatever is necessary to stop this."
The oil and natural gas industry, the coal industry, arms and weapons manufacturers, industrial farms, deforestation industries, the automotive industry and chemical plants will not willingly accept their own extinction. They are indifferent to the looming human catastrophe. We will not significantly reduce carbon emissions by drying our laundry in the backyard and naively trusting the power elite. The corporations will continue to cannibalize the planet for the sake of money. They must be halted by organized and militant forms of resistance. The crisis of global heating is a social problem. It requires a social response.
The United States, after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, went on to increase its carbon emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels. The European Union countries during the same period reduced their emissions by 2 percent. But the recent climate negotiations in Bangkok, designed to lead to a deal in Copenhagen in December, have scuttled even the tepid response of Kyoto. Kyoto is dead. The EU, like the United States, will no longer abide by binding targets for emission reductions. Countries will unilaterally decide how much to cut. They will submit their plans to international monitoring. And while Kyoto put the burden of responsibility on the industrialized nations that created the climate crisis, the new plan treats all countries the same. It is a huge step backward.
"All of the so-called solutions to global warming take industrial capitalism as a given," said Jensen, who wrote "Endgame (https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Vol-1-Problem-Civilization/dp/158322730X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255917538&sr=1-1)" and "The Culture of Make Believe (https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6)." "The natural world is supposed to conform to industrial capitalism. This is insane. It is out of touch with physical reality. What's real is real. Any social system-it does not matter if we are talking about industrial capitalism or an indigenous Tolowa people-their way of life, is dependent upon a real, physical world. Without a real, physical world you don't have anything. When you separate yourself from the real world you start to hallucinate. You believe the machines are more real than real life. How many machines are within 10 feet of you and how many wild animals are within a hundred yards? How many machines do you have a daily relationship with? We have forgotten what is real."
The latest studies show polar ice caps are melting at a record rate and that within a decade the Arctic will be an open sea during summers. This does not give us much time. White ice and snow reflect 80 percent of sunlight back to space, while dark water reflects only 20 percent, absorbing a much larger heat load. Scientists warn that the loss of the ice will dramatically change winds and sea currents around the world. And the rapidly melting permafrost is unleashing methane chimneys from the ocean floor along the Russian coastline. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more toxic than carbon dioxide, and some scientists have speculated that the release of huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere could asphyxiate the human species. The rising sea levels, which will swallow countries such as Bangladesh and the Marshall Islands and turn cities like New Orleans into a new Atlantis, will combine with severe droughts, horrific storms and flooding to eventually dislocate over a billion people. The effects will be suffering, disease and death on a scale unseen in human history.
We can save groves of trees, protect endangered species and clean up rivers, all of which is good, but to leave the corporations unchallenged would mean our efforts would be wasted. These personal adjustments and environmental crusades can too easily become a badge of moral purity, an excuse for inaction. They can absolve us from the harder task of confronting the power of corporations.
The damage to the environment by human households is minuscule next to the damage done by corporations. Municipalities and individuals use 10 percent of the nation's water while the other 90 percent is consumed by agriculture and industry. Individual consumption of energy accounts for about a quarter of all energy consumption; the other 75 percent is consumed by corporations. Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States. We can, and should, live more simply, but it will not be enough if we do not radically transform the economic structure of the industrial world.
"If your food comes from the grocery store and your water from a tap you will defend to the death the system that brings these to you because your life depends on it," said Jensen, who is holding workshops around the country called Deep Green Resistance [click here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance) and here (https://www.derrickjensen.org/dgr.html)] to build a militant resistance movement. "If your food comes from a land base and if your water comes from a river you will defend to the death these systems. In any abusive system, whether we are talking about an abusive man against his partner or the larger abusive system, you force your victims to become dependent upon you. We believe that industrial capitalism is more important than life."
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible for our personal impoverishment as well as the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled government, to fossil fuels. Species are vanishing. Fish stocks are depleted. The great human migration from coastlines and deserts has begun. And as temperatures continue to rise, huge parts of the globe will become uninhabitable. NASA climate scientist James Hansen (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/01/scentist-letter-hansen-barack-obama) has demonstrated that any concentration of carbon dioxide greater than 350 parts per million in the atmosphere is not compatible with maintenance of the biosphere on the "planet on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted." He has determined that the world must stop burning coal by 2030-and the industrialized world well before that-if we are to have any hope of ever getting the planet back down below that 350 number. Coal supplies half of our electricity in the United States.
"We need to separate ourselves from the corporate government that is killing the planet," Jensen said. "We need to get really serious. We are talking about life on the planet. We need to shut down the oil infrastructure. I don't care, and the trees don't care, if we do this through lawsuits, mass boycotts or sabotage. I asked Dahr Jamail (https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Dahr_Jamail.php) how long a bridge would last in Iraq that was not defended. He said probably six to 12 hours. We need to make the economic system, which is the engine for so much destruction, unmanageable. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta) has been able to reduce Nigerian oil output by 20 percent. We need to stop the oil economy."
The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits. We have allowed the corporate state to sell the environmental crisis as a matter of personal choice when actually there is a need for profound social and economic reform. We are left powerless.
Alexander Herzen (https://www.answers.com/topic/alexander-herzen), speaking a century ago to a group of Russian anarchists working to topple the czar, reminded his followers that they were not there to rescue the system.
"We think we are the doctors," Herzen said. "We are the disease."
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Related initiatives, websites and articles:
UN CLIMATE SUMMIT: Countdown to Copenhagen
Global Climate Summit (https://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Projects/Climate_Summit/default.asp)
It's the most important wake up call of this century. And it's just weeks away. Join the David Suzuki Foundation and millions of people around the world calling on world leaders to sign an ambitious, fair and binding agreement at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen this December. Global action on climate change is vital for the health of our economy, our communities and our future. Recommended by Marie Blec Steurer-Henry ([email protected]) who suggests to use Suzuki's letter model to wrote to your own national leaders to call them to task - urgently - on this issue. Politicians do respond to public pressure when they get lots of it. Everyone's future is on the line here. It's time to get involved!!
24 OCTOBER 2009 - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION - This is going to be hyper HUGE!!
350.org (https://www.350.org/)
On October 24, join people all over the world to take a stand for a safe climate future. Read the Invitation (https://www.350.org/#invitation)...
Read some of the statements by their 350 prominent messengers
350 Messengers | 350.org (https://www.350.org/messengers)
Make sure to read Understanding 350 at Understanding 350 | 350.org (https://www.350.org/understanding-350) such as...
If we're already past 350, are we all doomed?
No. We're like the patient that goes to the doctor and learns he's overweight, or his cholesterol is too high. He doesn't die immediately-but until he changes his lifestyle and gets back down to the safe zone, he's at more risk for heart attack or stroke. The planet is in its danger zone because we've poured too much carbon into the atmosphere, and we're starting to see signs of real trouble: melting ice caps, rapidly spreading drought. We need to scramble back as quickly as we can to safety.
How do we create the political change to steer towards 350?
We need an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions fast, and 2009 might be our best shot.The United Nations is working on a global climate treaty, which is supposed to be completed in December of 2009 at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. But the current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety. This treaty needs to put a high enough price on carbon that we stop using so much. It also needs to ensure poor countries a fair chance to develop.This year, we can create a grassroots movement connected by the web and active all over the world.We can hold our decision-makers accountable to producing a treaty that is strong, equitable, and grounded in the latest science. On 24 October, we're holding a Global Day of Climate Action to do just this. If this global movement succeeds, we can get the world on track to get back to 350 and back to climate safety. It won't be easy, that's why we need all the help we can get. CLip
Why 350 is the most important number on the planet (26 September 2009)
Why 350 is the most important number on the planet | Opinion | Environment | The Guardian (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/26/350-carbon-atmosphere-copenhagen-mckibben)
Carbon target is key to winning hearts and minds (...) We've been running a huge campaign - it's blown up into the first real grassroots global political protest about global warming - called 350.org (https://www.350.org/). The number comes from new science that followed the shocking melt of Arctic ice in the summer of 2007. Researchers became convinced that climate change was happening faster than they had previously expected, and that they had enough data to put a real number on it. That number was 350, as in parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. Above that level, in the powerful (and peer-reviewed) words of Nasa scientist James Hansen, we can't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilisation developed or to which life on earth is adapted". So we took that number and ran with it - not with a slogan, not with a motto, but with a number. We're building toward a giant day of global action on 24 October, that will see thousands of events from every corner of the Earth, as far-flung a political protest as the planet has ever seen. And as far as I know, there's never been a big political campaign built around a scientific data point. But it's worked, and for a few reasons - a few reasons that help us think about how science might become integrated a bit more easily into the work of artists of various kinds. First, it sets a clear target, which is useful in a world of confusing and shifting political messages. When the world's leaders come to Copehagen in December, too many journalists will be watching to see if they produce "an agreement". Of course they'll produce an agreement - but an agreement is not what we need. We need a solution which in this case is defined not by political fiat but by science. The negotiation isn't really China versus the EU versus the US, it's all of us versus physics and chemistry. And since physics and chemistry really refuse to negotiate, we better meet their bottom line, which appears to be 350 parts per million. It's a way to make sure our leaders are dealing with the actual situation, not their particular political fortunes. (...) They're arguably the most important numbers on earth, the boundary condition for our continued existence here. They are tough and radical, those digits - we're already past them, at 390 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, and rising by 2% annually: that's why the Arctic is melting, why Australia is burning, why the world is changing in front of our eyes. To meet their challenge we'd need a very quick end to fossil fuel burning on this planet, and then we'd need real cooperation from the planet's oceans and forests, which can slowly suck up the excess carbon. The challenges are immense - the call for 350 goes far beyond what most of our leaders want to hear, because the economic and political change will be impossible to disguise as business as usual. CLIP
From: Ben Wikler - Avaaz.org ([email protected]): "Last month, from events in hundreds of cities, we flooded world leaders' phone lines with the Global Climate Wake-Up Call. This Saturday is the next global day of action on climate change--a worldwide wave of extraordinary events that will show leaders the accelerating breadth, power, and clarity of the global climate movement. On Saturday, thanks to more than a year of organizing by our friends at 350.org and others, citizens have assembled more than 4000 extraordinary climate actions across nearly every country, from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef to the summit of Mount Everest. Now, by joining actions in our own communities, we can supercharge the day and make the climate movement impossible to ignore. Click below to see the events map and find an event nearby: Avaaz.org - The World in Action (https://www.avaaz.org/en/350_map) - The 350 day of action is named for 350 parts per million, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere that scientists say would be the safe for the climate. (At the moment, we're at 387 parts per million and climbing fast.) Already, thanks to organizing around the world, 89 countries have now committed in principle to setting 350ppm as a worldwide goal -- and the number has become a kind of shorthand for the fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty that we are all working for. On October 24th, at each event -- at rallies and parties and deep-sea dives -- we'll take a photo centered around the number 350. The photos from around the world will be handed over to waiting reporters, broadcast to the world's media on giant screens in New York's Times Square, and delivered directly to hundreds of world leaders and politicians in the coming weeks. Gathering to pose for a 350 photograph might seem like a small action --- but when it's being done thousands of times in thousands of cities, it grows in force, showing global leaders a snapshot of the massive, vibrant groundswell of worldwide citizens demanding solutions on climate change. Let's make this huge. Find a local event and sign up to attend: Avaaz.org - The World in Action (https://www.avaaz.org/en/350_map) - In less than 50 days, our governments will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to negotiate a new global treaty to prevent a climate catastrophe. At the moment, the negotiations are stalling, and a fair ambitious and binding treaty looks a long way off. But it is precisely at times like these when people power, with hundreds of thousands of us working together, can make the difference."
Heroes of the Environment 2009 (30 persons featured including Cameron Diaz (https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924152_1924198,00.html))
Heroes of the Environment 2009 - Heroes of the Environment 2009 - TIME (https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924151,00.html)
From saving wild mountain rivers in China to measuring the Arctic's icy expanse, from protecting the lush forests of Africa to conducting a feisty online debate, our green heroes are informed by this simple notion: We can all make a difference!
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Blessings, Judith
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In this new compilation, you'll find 35 pages dedicated to a special Global Ecocide Feature and 46 pages of fresh news, updates, including 4 in-depth articles on the global swine flu scam, plus several articles showing that the US Dollar's dominance is in its death throes - and a whole lot of other stuff as usual - with the whole compilation reaching a staggering 152 pages (over 58,000 words) of reading material which I compiled for you over the past several days...
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EARTH RAINBOW NETWORK (https://www.earthrainbownetwork.com)
P.S. Yesterday (Monday, Oct 19), I went kayaking alone on the Saguenay River here - one last time before winter sets in - and had a truly wonderful time taking in the majestic beauty of nature and enjoying the meditative calm of a moment of bliss on this large body of salty water. I took several good pictures and will probably add some of them to the other 42 photos already in my Best Of series for 2009 that I'll soon post on the Web for your enjoyment. One highlight for me was to realize how absolutely everything that was around me, including the 5 trillion cells of my own body, were in perpetual motion as is every single speck of matter and energy in all dimensions of this infinitely vast universe. Thinking of how it must have felt - theoretically - before the Big Bang spasm from Creator Source when there was absolutely no movement and no thing made me realize even more deeply how we all are a sea of energy in movement and an intrinsic part of All that IS... Hard to properly express this bliss-stilling feeling with mere words, but if you ever went "there" in your meditations, you surely get what it means... It sure puts back into proper perspective the sheer insignificance, in the grand scheme of things, of what all 6.5 billions of us are experiencing right now on this still magnificent living planet... Yet when in time we will look back in the akashic records (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records) at this moment in the eternal continuum where so MUCH hangs in the balance with unimaginably profound repercussions for millions of years to come, I'm sure it will all hold a very special place in our collective heart - FOR GOING COLLECTIVE - remembering/reactivating our Oneness - is exactly where we are going/ascending...
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THE QUOTES
"Thank you for creating so much positive energy in a time where it is so much needed. I'm organizing a conference called "Inspired Action, changing the world from the inside out" at the Findhorn Foundation, part of a spiritual community in Scotland. You are very welcome to join in!"
- Message left by Margo van Greta in the ERN guestbook (https://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g35-09010-3a) - Details at Inspired Action - Changing the world from the inside out (https://www.findhorn.org/inspiredaction)
"Today, flu viruses are used like biological weapons to exterminate burgeoning populations. Disease controllers, covertly operating on behalf of the ruling elite, bioengineer mutants and apply multi-disciplinary pseudo-science to quash the accelerating Spiritual Renaissance."
- Leonard G. Horowitz -- Taken from Medical Madness Behind Flu Pandemics (https://www.fluscam.com/Medical_Manchurian_Candidates.html)
"We will either learn to put aside sectarian differences, to recognize all life as one life, to cooperate in sharing earth's bounty, and yield control to a higher power-or we will find ourselves embroiled in ever-more destructive conflicts that will leave the planet in ruins and avail only the meanest form of existence for the few, if any, who survive."
- Thomas Greco -- Taken from The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (https://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14163) below
"Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity's mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of a freely thinking mankind as a single entity. The new state of the biosphere that we are approaching without noticing it is the Noosphere (https://worldshift2012.org/content/first-noosphere-world-congress)."
- Vladimir Vernadsky, The Biosphere - taken from https://www.noosphereforum.org (https://www.noosphereforum.org/)
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CONTENTS
1. The demise of the dollar
2. The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
3. The Real reason Behind the Fed Secrecy
4. The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
5. What GM didn't tell you about their electric car
6. The Other Ticking Clock in Iran
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WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Millions to Rally Against Poverty This Weekend (Oct 16) NOTE: That's on top of the 4200+ cities around the world where people will hold 350 rallies - Much more below and at https://www.350.org (https://www.350.org/) - MILLIONS OF US ARE GOING TO ROCK THE GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE BOAT THIS WEEKEND!
Millions to Rally Against Poverty This Weekend - Yahoo! News (https://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20091016/wl_oneworld/world3674311255712706)
Well over 100 million people around the world are expected to "stand up" this weekend to call governments to action on poverty, hunger, and gender inequalities -- a set of global issues that most Americans say they would like their government to fund much more than it has. What's the Story? Last year, some 116 million people worldwide took part in the weekend-long events to "Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" That set a new Guinness World Record for largest mobilization of human beings in recorded history. Organizers are aiming to break that record this year. Participants are calling on their governments to take concrete steps to achieve the so-called Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight targets to cut extreme poverty and hunger in half, reduce HIV/AIDS and child and maternal mortality, get children into school, and ensure women's equality in society, all while protecting the environment. World leaders agreed at a summit in 2000 to commit the funding and implement the programs necessary to achieve the goals by 2015."With just six years left until the deadline ... 'Stand Up' will be a stark reminder that citizens will not accept excuses for governments breaking promises to the world's poorest and most vulnerable citizens," said Salil Shetty, Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, in a statement this week. CLIP Note from Jean: There has been precious few (https://news.google.com/news/more?cf=all&cf=all&ncl=dV-dzzexZKqPiUMwFOfZBeCLkRmcM) articles in the Western media prior to this event and none whatsoever to report what actually happened... - Visit STAND UP 2009 | Stand Against Poverty (https://standagainstpoverty.org/) for more details. Check also Stand Up and Freeze Against Poverty - Flash Mob Freeze (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LU3HJ2lWo0) AND World biggest Freeze Flash Mob in Paris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfrfDmXDb0) - it has an arresting effect! Many more such collective stunts through Improv Everywhere (https://improveverywhere.com/) - like The No Pants! Subway Ride (https://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/)
UN's well-intentioned Millennium Development Goals go unmet (16.10.2009)
UN's well-intentioned Millennium Development Goals go unmet | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 16.10.2009 (https://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4796573,00.html)
With its Millennium Development Goals, the UN aims to halve poverty by the year 2015. As funds are diverted due to the global finance crisis, it's clear that will remain nothing more than a good intention. -- According to the United Nations, anyone who lives on less than $1.25 a day lives in extreme poverty. The good news is, the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C calculated that the number of people under the poverty level worldwide has dropped by 0.6 percent this year, compared to last year. But it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that beating hunger continues to be a major struggle. "We know that we won't achieve the UN Millennium Goals, especially not cutting the number of starving people by half," said Baerbel Dieckmann, president of the Germany-based aid organization Welthungerhilfe While the international community's promise may have been well intended in 2000, it has not yet fulfilled its promises to halve the number of people in poverty, reduce mother and child mortality and provide universal primary school education. Despite a few encouraging examples here and there, the overall outlook is gloomy. Resources that could have gone toward alleviating poverty have been diverted to corporate the victims of the finance crisis. The international relief organization Oxfam estimates that, as a consequence of the global financial crises, an additional 100 people per minute are slipping under the poverty line each day. (...) Sachs is one of the brains behind the plan, and stresses that we have the technical possibility to make those changes. "We already have a global framework," said Sachs. "We have the treaties which are actually our laws, we have promises that we've made. We don't have to keep agonizing, we actually have to implement and what we need is our leadership saying 'We will honor what we've said we would do.'" This could be achieved funneling only 0.7 of a percent of the world's gross national product (GNP) towards the Millennium Development Goals - a proposal that's been on the table for the past 30 years already. It's a question of political will, even in times of economic crisis, said Sachs. Currently Germany contributes around 0.28 percent of its GNP to the Millennium Goals, but plans to increase that to 0.7 percent by 2015, together with other EU member countries.
You Can End Poverty - Make sure to watch this short video!
YouTube - You Can End Poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWzcyXQYm6w)
Imagine Rainbow
Imagine Rainbow (https://www.imagine-rainbow.ch/)
Highly recommended... especially their just released book (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) which embodies... "The creative spirit of the present with its wealth of images, ideas and fields of experience; portraits of initiatives and innovators with their meaningful and diverse projects. Snapshots of a developed yet ever-growing fleece."... with it focus on the rainbow... "A timeless unifying symbol in the fables, myths, religions and visions of mankind, in science, art, dreamtime and in our everyday lives." and the Rainbow Project... "Worldwide projects with Umbul Umbul Flags (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) in the colours of the rainbow; the red thread representing the unity in the diversity of cultures. NOTE from Jean: I received in the mail a complimentary copy of this amazing book - akin to the Whole Earth Catalog but for most everything related to the Rainbow around the world - and was quickly mesmerized by the wealth of initiatives, ideas and pictures (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html) it offers - such as this section on Alberto Ruz Buenfil (https://www.rainbow-project.ch/navigation_en/katalog/frameset-katalog.html). A real treat for the heart and soul, especially if you are just as fond of the energy of the rainbow as this book's mastermind and long-time ERN subscriber Thomas Bertschi from Switzerland and his friends are. A DVD with several short movies is also included in the book.
UFO tracks Iranian missiles (6 Oct 2009)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2670396/UFO-tracks-Iranian-missiles.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
A UFO streaks through the sky in this astonishing video of the Iranians test firing a controversial missile. The mystery object zooms unseen through Iran's airspace - before splitting a cloud in two as the film focuses in on the soaring rocket. A UFO expert today described the unknown craft - which appears to be tracking the weapon - as "phenomenal". CLIP
'1000ft-long UFOs were NOT Chinese lanterns!' (15 October 2009) (with a video)
'1000ft-long UFOs were NOT Chinese lanterns!' - Lancashire Evening Post (https://www.lep.co.uk/weirdnews/1000ftlong-UFOs-were-NOT-Chinese.5734414.jp)
A Lancashire man claims to have seen 1,000ft UFOs in the skies above Preston being followed by planes and helicopters. (...) "There must have been other people who saw them because they were huge. If you go off the size of a plane, say 60 feet wide. These must have been at least 1,000 feet - that's how big they were."It doesn't look big on there (the phone camera screen) but you can't even see the planes on there - that's how big these are to them. You can't come out with 'they're Chinese lanterns.'"The sighting is the latest in a long list of unexplained reports in Lancashire - particularly Preston. CLIP
Strange Ring Cloud over Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gb2N4mV0C0
Video captured on Oct. 7th, 2009, the west of the capital of Russia. In the skies over Moscow visible cloud of unusual shape. Check also Fallstreak holes / hole punch clouds (https://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa2/mediagallery/gallery.asp?orgid=1&suborgid=1&ssid=&pid=596&uid=&gallcatid=&gallid=5&fileid=) for dozens of pictures of a similar nature, the oldest ones going back to 2004. Then check Hole punch clouds forming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJ6QkIfVwc) - Giant HOLE in the SKY- TAMPA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQRVzsNhTs) - Hole punch clouds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8QMLVbSPUQ) - COULD THESE HOLES BE MADE BY CLOAKED UFO MOTHER SHIPS GENTLY LETTING US KNOW THEY ARE HERE?... That's what a medium was told recently... that we should watch for such increasingly more frequent subtle signs of their presence in our skies as a preparation for the Big Event...
Shape-shifting UFO
YouTube - Канал Discovery заснял НЛО (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRU6NqZ9DU)
ALEX COLLIER at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009
YouTube - ALEX COLLIER at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR46QjXjLH0)
Alex talked in depth and with passion about the problems and challenges that we all face looking towards the future from 2009 - and introduces an intriguing new concept: mentoring in co-operation with our ET allies. Recommended by Barbara Tomczyk ([email protected]) who wrote: "Andromedans would not have asked Alex to come into the public spotlight once more were this not important." Also recommended by Huguette Demers ([email protected]) who wrote: "Alex Collier has not been speaking publicly for years now. I think it is nice that he did recently. He is a contactee, a very serious and wise one. The reason I thought about you is that he is mentioning that Moranee, his contact from space, has said that the coming vaccine will change the DNA of the people receiving it, and I don't think he meant a change that would be welcome. I take that opinion very seriously."
UFOs Orbs Over West Virginia Power Plant
YouTube - UFOs Orbs Over West Virginia Power Plant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_i1QT4zUyc&NR=1)
Probably a computer generated CGI clip - yet it is fascinating!
U.F.O. During Moldova TV News, Eastern Europe, 2008. AWESOME!! (MUST SEE) YouTube - U.F.O During Moldova TV News, Eastern Europe, 2008. AWESOME!! (MUST SEE) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0AfvfNXb0)
Check at 1:20 into this TV newsclip!
Alien Hole Found In Russia
YouTube - Alien Hole Found In Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi3utstlgFI)
Small alien skeleton found
YouTube - little Alien found death (momie allready), God bless him... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJFXgKyEI4)
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist (October 11, 2009)
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist - ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083)
Despite doomsayers, Mayans say 2012 isn't the end of the world as we know it -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared. "It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up." Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?" It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six. CLIP - Note: The highest counter in the Mayan calendar is the alautun, which is an interval of 63 million years. Those who state the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 have not researched the Mayan system carefully. 2012 may be the equivalent of the year 10,000 in the Mayan calendar, which is significant, yet it may end up being but another Y2K. For more, click HERE (https://www.calendarhome.com/converter/mayan.html).
Jos Arguelles-2012 Prophecy- Part 1 (Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRDp5gyGZyo&NR=1) - parts 3 to 10 accessible through the list of related videos)
YouTube - José Arguelles-2012 Prophecy-Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l29O7LhzuuM)
Prof. Jos Arguelles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles), co-discoverer of the Law of Time, author of The Mayan Factor and Time and the Technosphere, among many other works, gives a long presentation during Dr. Chet Snow's Crop Circle Conference on the Prophecy regarding the phase change due at the end of the year 2012 that will take us into the upcoming Psychozooic Era.
Jose Arguelles at the Day Out of Time. Byron Bay, Australia (3 dcembre 2008 - 1:22:04)
YouTube - Jose Arguelles at the Day Out of Time. Byron Bay, Australia (complete) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obqp5M5C6bE)
Jose plays his flute first and starts talking at 10:40 into this video
THE NOOSPHERE COLLECTIVE - CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION - 2012 - ASCENSION
https://www.noosphereforum.org (https://www.noosphereforum.org/)
You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades
YouTube - You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCOYJg9ps4)
Acapella and hand rhythms--makes you smile : )
Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above
Image Gallery: Observing Earth: Amazing Views From Above | LiveScience.com (https://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?gid=21)
Microscopic images reveal insects in extreme close-up (20 Oct 2009)
Microscopic images reveal insects in extreme close-up - Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6384852/Microscopic-images-reveal-insects-in-extreme-close-up.html)
A set of stunning pictures have been released which reveal a stunning microscopic world of algae, lobster eggs and soap film. See 20 dazzling pictures through Nikon Small World competition: photographs through the microscope (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6386034/Nikon-Small-World-competition-photographs-through-the-microscope.html)
Flying with Hawks
LiveLeak.com - Flying with Hawks (https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c81_1255966265)
Scott Mason, who uses hawks to detect thermal currents to fly his paraglider through the skies of Nepal, "parahawking". He flies with Egyptian vultures, training them to find warm updrafts.
128' reloaded - Dangerous Organ III - Mighty Pipes
YouTube - 128' reloaded - Dangerous Organ III - Mighty Pipes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ723kL4u9w)
Once upon a time a guy asked a girl "will you marry me?" The girl said,"No!" And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank whole bottles of wine, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, didn't get fat, travelled more, had many lovers, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself. She went to the theatre, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her bum, had high self-esteem, never cried or yelled and felt and looked fabulous all the time.
- THE HAPPIEST FAIRY TALE EVER (https://www.scribd.com/doc/3231869/THE-HAPPIEST-FAIRY-TALE-EVER)!!!
Note de Jean: Si vous habitez au Qubec, vous tes bienvenu-e de venir assister au lancement le 21 novembre prochain l'covillage la Cit cologique Ham Nord du premier Rpertoire des co-communauts du Qubec, suivi d'une confrence en anglais sur la cration d'co-communaut donne par Diana Leafe Christian auteure de Vivre autrement et ancienne rdactrice en chef de la revue amricaine Community Magazine - Voir tous les dtails au Eco Communautes au Qubec: Accueil (https://www.ecocommunautes-qc.org/) - J'y serai!
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SPECIAL GLOBAL ECOCIDE FEATURE
CONTENTS
1. A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
2. Indicators of Ecological Crisis
3. Message from SaLuSa - 19 October 2009
4. Message from Matthew - October 19, 2009
5. The WorldShift 2012 Declaration
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NOTE from Jean: One of the most radical ideas I've seen lately: quickly doing away with our suicidal dependence on oil - through whatever means! - and pulling the plug on industrial capitalism, decried by Derrick Jensen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen) (https://www.derrickjensen.org (https://www.derrickjensen.org/)), amongst others, as the prime force that is killing the planet right now. It might seem rather extreme to most but when you cut through the chase to get to the bottom of this global self-destruction of our sole life support system - our living planet - and when you consider how preciously little has been accomplished so far to turn the tide of destruction, one understands why some would go as far as advocating what is suggested below... Industrial capitalism is definitely like a huge cancer eating out what's left of vital planetary resources to feed the bottomless greed of a relatively small group of people seemingly oblivious to the sheer consequences of their plush lifestyle and reckless pursuit of ever more wealth. As for cancer, we have two main options: you remove it forcefully and take whatever bitter pills are necessary to prevent its return, or you shift entirely away from fear and tap the infinitely healing power of LOVE to remedy at the source - at soul level - what's wrong in us and gradually nurture global Life and our global innate immune system back to complete health and harmonious balance. One option is akin to going to war against much of what our fear-based (fear of scarcity, fear of the other, fear of fear) civilization stands for - and it can definitely get nasty. The other one is more like making peace with oneself, Letting Love Flow through every thought, word and action so as to be utterly harmless and benevolent to all, and standing in our Highest Truth with the inner resilience of the willow bending wisely with the storm knowing it is much more likely to survive it unharmed than the mighty stiff oak priding itself of being the strongest tree around...
From: Truthdig - Reports - A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction (https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/)
A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
By Chris Hedges - Oct 18, 2009
We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/26/350-carbon-atmosphere-copenhagen-mckibben) over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. We can compost in our backyard. But unless we dismantle the corporate state, all those actions will be just as ineffective as the Ghost Dance shirts donned by native American warriors to protect themselves from the bullets of white soldiers at Wounded Knee.
"If we all wait for the great, glorious revolution there won't be anything left," author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen told me when I interviewed him in a phone call to his home in California. "If all we do is reform work, this culture will grind away. This work is necessary, but not sufficient. We need to use whatever means are necessary to stop this culture from killing the planet. We need to target and take down the industrial infrastructure that is systematically dismembering the planet. Industrial civilization is functionally incompatible with life on the planet, and is murdering the planet. We need to do whatever is necessary to stop this."
The oil and natural gas industry, the coal industry, arms and weapons manufacturers, industrial farms, deforestation industries, the automotive industry and chemical plants will not willingly accept their own extinction. They are indifferent to the looming human catastrophe. We will not significantly reduce carbon emissions by drying our laundry in the backyard and naively trusting the power elite. The corporations will continue to cannibalize the planet for the sake of money. They must be halted by organized and militant forms of resistance. The crisis of global heating is a social problem. It requires a social response.
The United States, after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, went on to increase its carbon emissions by 20 percent from 1990 levels. The European Union countries during the same period reduced their emissions by 2 percent. But the recent climate negotiations in Bangkok, designed to lead to a deal in Copenhagen in December, have scuttled even the tepid response of Kyoto. Kyoto is dead. The EU, like the United States, will no longer abide by binding targets for emission reductions. Countries will unilaterally decide how much to cut. They will submit their plans to international monitoring. And while Kyoto put the burden of responsibility on the industrialized nations that created the climate crisis, the new plan treats all countries the same. It is a huge step backward.
"All of the so-called solutions to global warming take industrial capitalism as a given," said Jensen, who wrote "Endgame (https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Vol-1-Problem-Civilization/dp/158322730X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255917538&sr=1-1)" and "The Culture of Make Believe (https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Make-Believe-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1931498571/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6)." "The natural world is supposed to conform to industrial capitalism. This is insane. It is out of touch with physical reality. What's real is real. Any social system-it does not matter if we are talking about industrial capitalism or an indigenous Tolowa people-their way of life, is dependent upon a real, physical world. Without a real, physical world you don't have anything. When you separate yourself from the real world you start to hallucinate. You believe the machines are more real than real life. How many machines are within 10 feet of you and how many wild animals are within a hundred yards? How many machines do you have a daily relationship with? We have forgotten what is real."
The latest studies show polar ice caps are melting at a record rate and that within a decade the Arctic will be an open sea during summers. This does not give us much time. White ice and snow reflect 80 percent of sunlight back to space, while dark water reflects only 20 percent, absorbing a much larger heat load. Scientists warn that the loss of the ice will dramatically change winds and sea currents around the world. And the rapidly melting permafrost is unleashing methane chimneys from the ocean floor along the Russian coastline. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more toxic than carbon dioxide, and some scientists have speculated that the release of huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere could asphyxiate the human species. The rising sea levels, which will swallow countries such as Bangladesh and the Marshall Islands and turn cities like New Orleans into a new Atlantis, will combine with severe droughts, horrific storms and flooding to eventually dislocate over a billion people. The effects will be suffering, disease and death on a scale unseen in human history.
We can save groves of trees, protect endangered species and clean up rivers, all of which is good, but to leave the corporations unchallenged would mean our efforts would be wasted. These personal adjustments and environmental crusades can too easily become a badge of moral purity, an excuse for inaction. They can absolve us from the harder task of confronting the power of corporations.
The damage to the environment by human households is minuscule next to the damage done by corporations. Municipalities and individuals use 10 percent of the nation's water while the other 90 percent is consumed by agriculture and industry. Individual consumption of energy accounts for about a quarter of all energy consumption; the other 75 percent is consumed by corporations. Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States. We can, and should, live more simply, but it will not be enough if we do not radically transform the economic structure of the industrial world.
"If your food comes from the grocery store and your water from a tap you will defend to the death the system that brings these to you because your life depends on it," said Jensen, who is holding workshops around the country called Deep Green Resistance [click here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance) and here (https://www.derrickjensen.org/dgr.html)] to build a militant resistance movement. "If your food comes from a land base and if your water comes from a river you will defend to the death these systems. In any abusive system, whether we are talking about an abusive man against his partner or the larger abusive system, you force your victims to become dependent upon you. We believe that industrial capitalism is more important than life."
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible for our personal impoverishment as well as the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled government, to fossil fuels. Species are vanishing. Fish stocks are depleted. The great human migration from coastlines and deserts has begun. And as temperatures continue to rise, huge parts of the globe will become uninhabitable. NASA climate scientist James Hansen (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/01/scentist-letter-hansen-barack-obama) has demonstrated that any concentration of carbon dioxide greater than 350 parts per million in the atmosphere is not compatible with maintenance of the biosphere on the "planet on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted." He has determined that the world must stop burning coal by 2030-and the industrialized world well before that-if we are to have any hope of ever getting the planet back down below that 350 number. Coal supplies half of our electricity in the United States.
"We need to separate ourselves from the corporate government that is killing the planet," Jensen said. "We need to get really serious. We are talking about life on the planet. We need to shut down the oil infrastructure. I don't care, and the trees don't care, if we do this through lawsuits, mass boycotts or sabotage. I asked Dahr Jamail (https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Dahr_Jamail.php) how long a bridge would last in Iraq that was not defended. He said probably six to 12 hours. We need to make the economic system, which is the engine for so much destruction, unmanageable. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta) has been able to reduce Nigerian oil output by 20 percent. We need to stop the oil economy."
The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits. We have allowed the corporate state to sell the environmental crisis as a matter of personal choice when actually there is a need for profound social and economic reform. We are left powerless.
Alexander Herzen (https://www.answers.com/topic/alexander-herzen), speaking a century ago to a group of Russian anarchists working to topple the czar, reminded his followers that they were not there to rescue the system.
"We think we are the doctors," Herzen said. "We are the disease."
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UN CLIMATE SUMMIT: Countdown to Copenhagen
Global Climate Summit (https://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Projects/Climate_Summit/default.asp)
It's the most important wake up call of this century. And it's just weeks away. Join the David Suzuki Foundation and millions of people around the world calling on world leaders to sign an ambitious, fair and binding agreement at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen this December. Global action on climate change is vital for the health of our economy, our communities and our future. Recommended by Marie Blec Steurer-Henry ([email protected]) who suggests to use Suzuki's letter model to wrote to your own national leaders to call them to task - urgently - on this issue. Politicians do respond to public pressure when they get lots of it. Everyone's future is on the line here. It's time to get involved!!
24 OCTOBER 2009 - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION - This is going to be hyper HUGE!!
350.org (https://www.350.org/)
On October 24, join people all over the world to take a stand for a safe climate future. Read the Invitation (https://www.350.org/#invitation)...
Read some of the statements by their 350 prominent messengers
350 Messengers | 350.org (https://www.350.org/messengers)
Make sure to read Understanding 350 at Understanding 350 | 350.org (https://www.350.org/understanding-350) such as...
If we're already past 350, are we all doomed?
No. We're like the patient that goes to the doctor and learns he's overweight, or his cholesterol is too high. He doesn't die immediately-but until he changes his lifestyle and gets back down to the safe zone, he's at more risk for heart attack or stroke. The planet is in its danger zone because we've poured too much carbon into the atmosphere, and we're starting to see signs of real trouble: melting ice caps, rapidly spreading drought. We need to scramble back as quickly as we can to safety.
How do we create the political change to steer towards 350?
We need an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions fast, and 2009 might be our best shot.The United Nations is working on a global climate treaty, which is supposed to be completed in December of 2009 at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. But the current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety. This treaty needs to put a high enough price on carbon that we stop using so much. It also needs to ensure poor countries a fair chance to develop.This year, we can create a grassroots movement connected by the web and active all over the world.We can hold our decision-makers accountable to producing a treaty that is strong, equitable, and grounded in the latest science. On 24 October, we're holding a Global Day of Climate Action to do just this. If this global movement succeeds, we can get the world on track to get back to 350 and back to climate safety. It won't be easy, that's why we need all the help we can get. CLip
Why 350 is the most important number on the planet (26 September 2009)
Why 350 is the most important number on the planet | Opinion | Environment | The Guardian (https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/26/350-carbon-atmosphere-copenhagen-mckibben)
Carbon target is key to winning hearts and minds (...) We've been running a huge campaign - it's blown up into the first real grassroots global political protest about global warming - called 350.org (https://www.350.org/). The number comes from new science that followed the shocking melt of Arctic ice in the summer of 2007. Researchers became convinced that climate change was happening faster than they had previously expected, and that they had enough data to put a real number on it. That number was 350, as in parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. Above that level, in the powerful (and peer-reviewed) words of Nasa scientist James Hansen, we can't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilisation developed or to which life on earth is adapted". So we took that number and ran with it - not with a slogan, not with a motto, but with a number. We're building toward a giant day of global action on 24 October, that will see thousands of events from every corner of the Earth, as far-flung a political protest as the planet has ever seen. And as far as I know, there's never been a big political campaign built around a scientific data point. But it's worked, and for a few reasons - a few reasons that help us think about how science might become integrated a bit more easily into the work of artists of various kinds. First, it sets a clear target, which is useful in a world of confusing and shifting political messages. When the world's leaders come to Copehagen in December, too many journalists will be watching to see if they produce "an agreement". Of course they'll produce an agreement - but an agreement is not what we need. We need a solution which in this case is defined not by political fiat but by science. The negotiation isn't really China versus the EU versus the US, it's all of us versus physics and chemistry. And since physics and chemistry really refuse to negotiate, we better meet their bottom line, which appears to be 350 parts per million. It's a way to make sure our leaders are dealing with the actual situation, not their particular political fortunes. (...) They're arguably the most important numbers on earth, the boundary condition for our continued existence here. They are tough and radical, those digits - we're already past them, at 390 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, and rising by 2% annually: that's why the Arctic is melting, why Australia is burning, why the world is changing in front of our eyes. To meet their challenge we'd need a very quick end to fossil fuel burning on this planet, and then we'd need real cooperation from the planet's oceans and forests, which can slowly suck up the excess carbon. The challenges are immense - the call for 350 goes far beyond what most of our leaders want to hear, because the economic and political change will be impossible to disguise as business as usual. CLIP
From: Ben Wikler - Avaaz.org ([email protected]): "Last month, from events in hundreds of cities, we flooded world leaders' phone lines with the Global Climate Wake-Up Call. This Saturday is the next global day of action on climate change--a worldwide wave of extraordinary events that will show leaders the accelerating breadth, power, and clarity of the global climate movement. On Saturday, thanks to more than a year of organizing by our friends at 350.org and others, citizens have assembled more than 4000 extraordinary climate actions across nearly every country, from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef to the summit of Mount Everest. Now, by joining actions in our own communities, we can supercharge the day and make the climate movement impossible to ignore. Click below to see the events map and find an event nearby: Avaaz.org - The World in Action (https://www.avaaz.org/en/350_map) - The 350 day of action is named for 350 parts per million, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere that scientists say would be the safe for the climate. (At the moment, we're at 387 parts per million and climbing fast.) Already, thanks to organizing around the world, 89 countries have now committed in principle to setting 350ppm as a worldwide goal -- and the number has become a kind of shorthand for the fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty that we are all working for. On October 24th, at each event -- at rallies and parties and deep-sea dives -- we'll take a photo centered around the number 350. The photos from around the world will be handed over to waiting reporters, broadcast to the world's media on giant screens in New York's Times Square, and delivered directly to hundreds of world leaders and politicians in the coming weeks. Gathering to pose for a 350 photograph might seem like a small action --- but when it's being done thousands of times in thousands of cities, it grows in force, showing global leaders a snapshot of the massive, vibrant groundswell of worldwide citizens demanding solutions on climate change. Let's make this huge. Find a local event and sign up to attend: Avaaz.org - The World in Action (https://www.avaaz.org/en/350_map) - In less than 50 days, our governments will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to negotiate a new global treaty to prevent a climate catastrophe. At the moment, the negotiations are stalling, and a fair ambitious and binding treaty looks a long way off. But it is precisely at times like these when people power, with hundreds of thousands of us working together, can make the difference."
Heroes of the Environment 2009 (30 persons featured including Cameron Diaz (https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924152_1924198,00.html))
Heroes of the Environment 2009 - Heroes of the Environment 2009 - TIME (https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924149_1924151,00.html)
From saving wild mountain rivers in China to measuring the Arctic's icy expanse, from protecting the lush forests of Africa to conducting a feisty online debate, our green heroes are informed by this simple notion: We can all make a difference!
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