Wal-Mart contributed to 206 members of Congress who voted for the 2005 energy bill, one of the most harmful anti-environmental pieces of legislation in the past decade. The energy bill turned back the clock by weakening environmental laws and giving away billions in tax breaks and subsidies to oil, gas and coal companies. From
Derek Wall were sceptical about whether companies would ever really be part of the solution.
Well what I did say was that it was inappropriate to praise ASDA Wallmart, which Jeremy Leggett did for their zero carbon policy, that green politics was about justice not just the environment and that a company that pushed wages down for producers and steam rollers local economies, should not be seen as green.
The best movement was when Chris Huhne refused to rule out a moratorium on new runways, clearly the Liberal Democrats can be embarrassed into a stronger position.
For more on the Exxon meeting and how to fight corporate driven global warming click here.
Is Walmart green? Read here
7 Mar 2007
6 Mar 2007
Just do it.
Click here for instant enlightenment (well....), just click here
Zen is essential.
sadly all this principal speaker stuff is cutting into my zazen. Perhaps I could organise an offset...this monday I got to argue with Chris Huhne MP...so I pay you to sit in meditation for me....the other week too busy for zazen cos of preparing for Hard Talk...now hard talk is zen but may be I could pay for a programme of Buddhist ethical advice aimed at teenages in Salford.
Zen Master Dogen said, "you and the streams
and the mountains are one and the same," you could read the fascinating article on Zen and ecology this is from but no I don't want you to read about Zen, Zen is doing.
Incidentally one of my muslim environmentalist friends told me that his Sufi order are in the tv series 'The Retreat'.....Sufism is of course strong on practice as well, so just do zen, if not join a sufi circle....but without getting into dualism, discrimination and instruction... don't read one of the hundreds of books on zen as a substitute.
Just think what a world we would have if economists did zen rather than econometrics...or as well as.
Zen is essential.
sadly all this principal speaker stuff is cutting into my zazen. Perhaps I could organise an offset...this monday I got to argue with Chris Huhne MP...so I pay you to sit in meditation for me....the other week too busy for zazen cos of preparing for Hard Talk...now hard talk is zen but may be I could pay for a programme of Buddhist ethical advice aimed at teenages in Salford.
Zen Master Dogen said, "you and the streams
and the mountains are one and the same," you could read the fascinating article on Zen and ecology this is from but no I don't want you to read about Zen, Zen is doing.
Incidentally one of my muslim environmentalist friends told me that his Sufi order are in the tv series 'The Retreat'.....Sufism is of course strong on practice as well, so just do zen, if not join a sufi circle....but without getting into dualism, discrimination and instruction... don't read one of the hundreds of books on zen as a substitute.
Just think what a world we would have if economists did zen rather than econometrics...or as well as.
Npower criminalise protest
Granted in the high court by the Honourable Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, it forbids the people of a village in Oxfordshire from "coming to, remaining on, trespassing or conducting any demonstrations or protesting or other activities" on the claimant's land.
George Monbiot writes today in the Guardian about how Npower have used an injunction to criminalise protest against the dumping of waste in the beautiful Radley Lakes.
Interesting report on ITN News yesterday with film of Chinese farmers protesting against having their land stolen for development.
Free market economics spins its story as being about liberty and freedom from the big state, in reality it is based on theft, we call it 'enclosure'. Resistance to enclosure is what the politics of class struggle and environmental justice is about.
Incidentally you may have heard that there is a great push in the Green Party to enclose my position and go for a single leader.....as they say 'if voting changed anything....'
In opposition to hierarchy we erect hierarchy, in opposition to market failure and unsustainable growth, we extend the market.
So learn more about the politics of enclosure and the open source alternatives and tear up your Npower contract.
The essential text is whose common future....so good that Nicholas Hildyard had to leave the Ecologist shortly after.
George Monbiot writes today in the Guardian about how Npower have used an injunction to criminalise protest against the dumping of waste in the beautiful Radley Lakes.
Interesting report on ITN News yesterday with film of Chinese farmers protesting against having their land stolen for development.
Free market economics spins its story as being about liberty and freedom from the big state, in reality it is based on theft, we call it 'enclosure'. Resistance to enclosure is what the politics of class struggle and environmental justice is about.
Incidentally you may have heard that there is a great push in the Green Party to enclose my position and go for a single leader.....as they say 'if voting changed anything....'
In opposition to hierarchy we erect hierarchy, in opposition to market failure and unsustainable growth, we extend the market.
So learn more about the politics of enclosure and the open source alternatives and tear up your Npower contract.
The essential text is whose common future....so good that Nicholas Hildyard had to leave the Ecologist shortly after.
3 Mar 2007
DEREK WALL CALLS FOR DIRECT ACTION AGAINST EXXON MOBIL
Green Party Principal Speaker to address Campaign Against Climate Change meeting
7pm, Monday 5th March, Room V111, Vernon Square Campus, off Kings Cross Rd
Dr. Wall will join Chris Huhne MP - Lib Dem Shadow Environment Minister, Jeremy Leggett - Author and Director of Solar Century, and others to debate the motion: "Is Exxon Mobil the World's worst climate criminal?"
In advance of the meeting Derek said: "Utah Phillips, the great labor organiser and advocate of direct action, once said 'The Earth isn’t dying, it's being murdered. And those who are doing it have names, addresses and faces.' "
"Exxon Mobil has been at the forefront of a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry around the world, but most especially in the US, to prevent international agreement on emissions reductions. The damage they have done in hindering action on climate change - the greatest threat the world faces - cannot be underestimated.
"I urge people to boycott Exxon, or Esso as they are known in the UK, and to come to the 24 hours of protest at Exxon HQ, happening from 5.00 pm on Thursday 5th April." (1)
"Direct action is a vital component of radical politics in a system where vested economics interests exercise so much power and the democratic deficit is so immense."
A staunch supporter of non-violent direct action, Dr wall's PHD was in direct action - 'the politics of Earth first UK.' His book 'Earth First and the Anti-Roads movement' looked at how non violent direct action defeated the roads menace in the 1990s.
Texan-based ExxonMobil (trading under the brand name 'Esso' in the UK) has been at the forefront of the massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry in the US against US acceptance of Kyoto or any international agreement on emissions reductions. Other fossil fuel companies have played an important role - for instance Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, the role of which in the lobbying that pressured Bush into rejecting Kyoto in 2001 was well reported by BBC 2's 'Money Programme' (and see, for instance here ). But ExxonMobil has been much the most agressive and influential of all the US fossil fuel companies in the campaign that has been waged against Kyoto and to stop the US government placing any effective curbs on US emissions of greenhouse gases.
Exxon is the largest oil company in the world. It makes more than $ 1,000 a second, and last year made the biggest annual profits of any company ever - $ 36 billion. Exxon uses its incredible wealth to back Bush : 1.376 milion dollars in the 2000 election cycle, with 90% of its political donations going to the Republicans. (1)
ENDS
Notes for Editors:
More information on the debate, and the subsequent demo outside Exxon HQ can be found at: http://www.campaigncc.org/stopexxon.html
Green Party Press Office
020 7561 0282
http://www.greenparty.org.uk
Published and promoted by Jim Killock for the Green Party, both at
1a Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ.
Green Party Principal Speaker to address Campaign Against Climate Change meeting
7pm, Monday 5th March, Room V111, Vernon Square Campus, off Kings Cross Rd
Dr. Wall will join Chris Huhne MP - Lib Dem Shadow Environment Minister, Jeremy Leggett - Author and Director of Solar Century, and others to debate the motion: "Is Exxon Mobil the World's worst climate criminal?"
In advance of the meeting Derek said: "Utah Phillips, the great labor organiser and advocate of direct action, once said 'The Earth isn’t dying, it's being murdered. And those who are doing it have names, addresses and faces.' "
"Exxon Mobil has been at the forefront of a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry around the world, but most especially in the US, to prevent international agreement on emissions reductions. The damage they have done in hindering action on climate change - the greatest threat the world faces - cannot be underestimated.
"I urge people to boycott Exxon, or Esso as they are known in the UK, and to come to the 24 hours of protest at Exxon HQ, happening from 5.00 pm on Thursday 5th April." (1)
"Direct action is a vital component of radical politics in a system where vested economics interests exercise so much power and the democratic deficit is so immense."
A staunch supporter of non-violent direct action, Dr wall's PHD was in direct action - 'the politics of Earth first UK.' His book 'Earth First and the Anti-Roads movement' looked at how non violent direct action defeated the roads menace in the 1990s.
Texan-based ExxonMobil (trading under the brand name 'Esso' in the UK) has been at the forefront of the massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry in the US against US acceptance of Kyoto or any international agreement on emissions reductions. Other fossil fuel companies have played an important role - for instance Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, the role of which in the lobbying that pressured Bush into rejecting Kyoto in 2001 was well reported by BBC 2's 'Money Programme' (and see, for instance here ). But ExxonMobil has been much the most agressive and influential of all the US fossil fuel companies in the campaign that has been waged against Kyoto and to stop the US government placing any effective curbs on US emissions of greenhouse gases.
Exxon is the largest oil company in the world. It makes more than $ 1,000 a second, and last year made the biggest annual profits of any company ever - $ 36 billion. Exxon uses its incredible wealth to back Bush : 1.376 milion dollars in the 2000 election cycle, with 90% of its political donations going to the Republicans. (1)
ENDS
Notes for Editors:
More information on the debate, and the subsequent demo outside Exxon HQ can be found at: http://www.campaigncc.org/stopexxon.html
Green Party Press Office
020 7561 0282
http://www.greenparty.org.uk
Published and promoted by Jim Killock for the Green Party, both at
1a Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ.
2 Mar 2007
Right wing wiki
Right wingers in the states have created http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page....saying wiki is too 'liberal'.....
it just looks like a rubbish version of the true open source goddess to me..but at least we have hooked them in.
Lets have a look at their world:
February 28
The Republican Party of the United States of America was organized on this day in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin. this the most recent date on the date bit!
Marx drew heavily on the ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Engels. I suppose with the wiki system they will change this to Hegel.
Zen well the whole thing reads
A belief system which emphasizes awareness and "seeing deeply into the nature of things". It began in China and eventually spread to the rest of the world.
Zen Buddhism mixes Daoism with Buddhism.
lets try another search
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Showing below 5 results starting with #1.
what next a wiki just for say Scientologists....any way the wiki idea is pretty subversive so if we have conservatives seduced by it all to the good.
If I want some contra opinions I will look at my Economist sub....US conservatism just seems silly.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. If people want want to live in a fantasy world they will come and edit this site.
This is a pr disaster, I mean everyone one I disagree with from 'neo-liberals' to fundamentalist Salifists has better spin doctors than these people.
Evolution....what do they say here:
"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether". Henry Gee, “Return to the Planet of the Apes,” Nature, Vol. 412, 12 July 2001, p. 131.
For more quotes regarding the fossil record please see: Fossil record quotes
Evolution Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Evolution does in fact lower the entropy of the sum of the living DNA on this planet. The mechanism used by evolution to lower entropy is the collection and storage of information about trait survivability on strands of molecules called DNA. The theory of Evolution says that this information collects naturally through non-random selection from offspring variation.
Hugo Chavez
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Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela. He was born on July 28, 1954. The young and intimidating Chavez is described as "Castro with money". I dare say they will flesh this out...
1 Mar 2007
Did David Cameron kill Bambi's mum?
I bumped into to George Osbourne at the first of this year's Reith lectures (Jeffery Sachs) yesterday...I should have asked him if David had killed Bambi's mum?
Cameron is said to be a keen deer stalker who takes family holidays on a Scottish Island, teeming with wildlife, that he kills! Well deer anyway.
He is also said to be pro-fox hunting, During last year's Conservative leadership contest, Mr Cameron, who has foxhunted in the past, told one pro-hunting Tory MP: 'You must vote for me because I am the only candidate to have hunted with two mounted packs.' More here
Seems like fun for the well off rather than an ecologically motivated hobby to me.
Cameron is said to be a keen deer stalker who takes family holidays on a Scottish Island, teeming with wildlife, that he kills! Well deer anyway.
He is also said to be pro-fox hunting, During last year's Conservative leadership contest, Mr Cameron, who has foxhunted in the past, told one pro-hunting Tory MP: 'You must vote for me because I am the only candidate to have hunted with two mounted packs.' More here
Seems like fun for the well off rather than an ecologically motivated hobby to me.
A Green leader?
Did anyone from Greenpeace or Earth First! ever imagine that the world’s first environmental president would come from Venezuela? Many Greens might find such an idea ludicrous considering that the South American nation is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world and a major resource for heavy mineral and coal mining.
A solid article from Eva...Chavez has certainly been keen to tell me of his green concerns and wish to promote Green Party ideas.
A solid article from Eva...Chavez has certainly been keen to tell me of his green concerns and wish to promote Green Party ideas.
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