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Climate Alarm Bells Ring but UN and Obama Administration Fail to Act

The recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most worrisome so far. Paired with data from the 2014 National Climate Assessment, there is no question that the climate crisis is here and is accelerating at a faster pace than predicted. Its effects are widespread and dangerous, yet real solutions are being suppressed.

If the East Bay Was Gaza How Would You Feel?

The Palestinian enclave known as Gaza is approximately 25 miles long by 5 miles wide. It is about the same area as the East Bay from Oakland in the north to Fremont in the south. To the west is open water; to the east are the hills (heavily-reinforced razor wire fence for Gaza).
What would life be like if the East Bay of San Francisco was Gaza?

Are California’s Aquifers Poisoned?

The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources temporarily shut down as of July 18th, several oil and gas wastewater injection wells over concerns about contamination of the state’s aquifers.
That fact alone leads to one inescapable conclusion: Will humanity ever break away from the darkness of Dick Cheney (the subtext to this article)?
As it happened, because of Darth Vader Cheney’s tricky maneuvers a decade ago whilst serving as VP of the United States of America, today the “Halliburton Loophole” is haunting California’s tenuous water situation.

Author & Adventurer Allan C. Weisbecker launches North American Tour at Tragedy & Hope

BUSTED AT CUSTOMS, RICH & LISA, WATER TIME IN NYC Posted July 10, 2014 in Allan Weisbecker’s Blog July 3, Scarborough, Maine.   June 26 Gus and I blew out of Montauk much as I did in ’96 and then again in ’07, with Shiner and Honey, respectively, as travel companions, having ‘given up house and home’ for the road life […]