Fossil Fuel Corporations Dominating the UN Climate Change Conference

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Published on Nov 14, 2013

Rachel Tansey: Civil society groups, green Polish groups and UN delegations from the global south working to push the UN to take action on climate change

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Noam Chomsky – The Future Of Humanity 2014

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Published on Aug 8, 2014

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Our Flooding World

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Published on Aug 7, 2014

University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward is one of the world’s leading experts on the mass extinction events that delineate the geologic record. His thesis that all the mass extinctions (save the one that divides the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods and killed off the dinosaurs) were brought on by rapid climate change much like what we ourselves have initiated has become established science in the last few years. His 2007 book: Under a Green Sky is about how he unearthed the evidence that changed the scientific paradigm ending the debate on what caused the myriad mass extinctions of eons past and gives powerful insight into our likely fate if we are unable to force necessary changes in time.

The writer of 15 books on popular science, Professor Ward does not confine himself to the ivory tower. Neither does he apparently feel comfortable containing himself in one scientific field. He is also a professor of biology and of earth and space sciences and serves as an adjunct professor of zoology and astronomy. His career has included teaching posts and professional connections with Ohio State University, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the University of Calgary, McMaster University, and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 1984.

Dr. Ward’s broad scientific background and his work in understanding the mechanisms by which climate change destabilized the biosphere leading to mass extinctions in the past puts him on the cutting edge of what we know about global warming.

In this program, Professor Ward turns our attention to sea-level rise and examines the consequences of varying sea-level rises on civilization. He brings this home as he examines some of the effects it will have here in Seattle. His latest book is The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps.

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Talk to Al Jazeera in the field – African migrants: What really drives them to Europe?

Al Jazeera English Published on Jun 6, 2015 Thousands of Africans put their lives at risk as they go on a boat journey in search of what they think would be a better and easier living. It is a journey that begins with hope, but often ends in despair. Most of them depart from Libya late at night, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea in broad streams with Italy as their central destination.Last year, more than 170,000 migrants arrived there, representing the largest influx of people into one country in European Union history.Most of the migrants are Eritrean and Syrian but numerous Africans from sub-Saharan regions also use this route.This year almost 2,000 people have died trying to make this crossing. And the Libyan coast guard intercepts many of the boats transporting illegal immigrants from across Africa to Italy. We travelled off the coast of Libya to meet African migrants risking everything for a future in Europe. Who are they? Where do they come from? And what do they expect to find on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea? Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid meets three young Africans who are in a Libyan detention centre: Patrick Jabbi, 27, from Congo; Baba Lami, 19, from Gambia; and Alima Bakhari, 23, from Nigeria, who was one of the few women on the boat that was boarded by the Libyan coast guard.We find out more as Patrick, Baba and Alima talk to Al Jazeera in the field. Global Climate Change Environment Ethics Environment Justice

The Global African: Las Castas/The Trans Pacific Partnership

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Published on Jun 6, 2015

Telesur’s The Global African looks at the complexity of race in Latin America & who the Trans-Pacific Partnership actually serves.

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UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn. WWViews on Climate, 6 June 2015

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Published on Jun 6, 2015

World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is going to be the largest ever global citizen consultation on climate change. 10,000 citizens representing a cross section of society in 79 countries meet on Saturday 6 June to make their voices heard in the international climate change negotiations leading to Paris, France this December.

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Edge of Extinction: Climate Change Deniers

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Published on Jun 6, 2015

Excerpt from Extinction Radio, March 29, 2015
EXtinction Radio staff is an international assortment of administrators and members of the legendary Near Term Human Extinction Support Group on Facebook.

Listen as Guy speaks on EXtinction Radio about Abrupt Climate Change Deniers.

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A History of the N Word: Why Is It Offensive, Racist? Meaning, Usage (2001)

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Published on Jun 6, 2015

Nigger is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term referring to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (“color black”). Often used disparagingly, by the mid 20th century, particularly in the United States, its usage had become unambiguously pejorative, a common ethnic slur usually directed at black people of Subsaharan African descent.

The variants neger and negar, derive from the Spanish and Portuguese word negro (black), and from the now-pejorative French nègre (negro). Etymologically, negro, noir, nègre, and nigger ultimately derive from nigrum, the stem of the Latin niger (black) (pronounced [ˈniɡer] which, in every other grammatical case, grammatical gender, and grammatical number besides nominative masculine singular, is nigr-, the r is trilled).

In the Colonial America of 1619, John Rolfe used negars in describing the African slaves shipped to the Virginia colony.[3] Later American English spellings, neger and neggar, prevailed in a northern colony, New York under the Dutch, and in metropolitan Philadelphia’s Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities; the African Burial Ground in New York City originally was known by the Dutch name “Begraafplaats van de Neger” (Cemetery of the Negro); an early US occurrence of neger in Rhode Island, dates from 1625.[4] An alternative word for African Americans was the English word, “Black”, used by Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Among Anglophones, the word nigger was not always considered derogatory, because it then denoted “black-skinned”, a common Anglophone usage.[5] Nineteenth-century English (language) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e.g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897). Moreover, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain created characters who used the word as contemporary usage. Twain, in the autobiographic book Life on the Mississippi (1883), used the term within quotes, indicating reported usage, but used the term “negro” when speaking in his own narrative persona.[6]

During the fur trade of the early 1800s to the late 1840s in the Western United States, the word was spelled “niggur”, and is often recorded in literature of the time. George Fredrick Ruxton often included the word as part of the “mountain man” lexicon, and did not indicate that the word was pejorative at the time. “Niggur” was evidently similar to the modern use of dude, or guy. This passage from Ruxton’s Life in the Far West illustrates a common use of the word in spoken form—the speaker here referring to himself: “Travler, marm, this niggur’s no travler; I ar’ a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!”[7] It was not used as a term exclusively for blacks among mountain men during this period, as Indians, Mexicans, and Frenchmen and Anglos alike could be a “niggur”.[8] Linguistically, in developing American English, in the early editions of A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806), lexicographer Noah Webster suggested the neger new spelling in place of negro.[9]

By the 1900s, nigger had become a pejorative word. In its stead, the term colored became the mainstream alternative to negro and its derived terms. Abolitionists in Boston, Massachusetts, posted warnings to the Colored People of Boston and vicinity. Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the “opprobrious” character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than “colored.”[10] Established as mainstream American English usage, the word colored features in the organizational title of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reflecting the members’ racial identity preference at the 1909 foundation. In the Southern United States, the local American English dialect changes the pronunciation of negro to nigra.

By the late 1960s, the social change achieved by groups in the United States such as the Civil Rights Movement (1955–68), had legitimized the racial identity word black as mainstream American English usage to denote black-skinned Americans of African ancestry. In the 1990s, “Black” was displaced in favor of the compound blanket term African American. Moreover, as a compound word, African American resembles the vogue word Afro-American, an early-1970s popular usage. Currently, some black Americans continue to use the word nigger, often spelled as nigga and niggah, without irony, either to neutralize the word’s impact or as a sign of solidarity.

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74 New Earth-Like Exoplanets | S0 News June 4, 2015

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Published on Jun 4, 2015

Did somebody say STARWATER?

Observing the Frontier Conference: https://www.eventjoy.com/e/suspicious…

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Germany deploys 22,000 police officers at G7 venue

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Published on Jun 6, 2015

More than 22,000 police have been deployed in the German Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen as thousands protest in advance of the arrival of G7 leaders for a two-day summit.Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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