Monthly Archives: November 2015
The Global Climate March NYC, November 2015
Today there was a Climate March in NYC. I was there. I made the trip in my costume for Planet Hospice. And I carried a sign designed for the moment. Many pictures were taken of me (many by people with press credentials). I don’t know whether any will be in news feeds. And more than […]
Signs of a Dying Society By Paul Buchheit
Originally posted on PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS VOICE:
November 24, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who conspiredwith Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of subprime mortgages was honored byNew…
Planet Hospice–A New monologue play
So let’s pretend that you’re me (YOU call the medical insurance people :-\) I consider myself intelligent enough, but I’m not a person with credentials attesting to that. I am not a PhD in anything. By the time I finished my masters degree many years ago, it was clear that colleges were no longer creating […]
Ukraine nuclear plants facing meltdown?
Several months ago (in April), I wrote about the obstructionist mess in electoral politics in the US leading to a ‘search for a man on horseback‘–the belief that someone like Donald Trump could sweep in on a steed and (metaphorically, one hopes) swing a sword a few times and bring us to a new age […]
Beckwith is Back – Abrupt Climate System Update
Originally posted on Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist:
I am back, after a long video hiatus. I have been chomping at the bit to film, but held off to essentially finish this website. Like many projects that start out small, they can become nonlinear like the climate. My web/coach/guru/Yoda in this project was the wonderful…
Extinction goes mainstream? UPDATED
Some news regarding climate and predictions. The above cover was a wake-up call for me–I started blogging about ‘doomer porn’ almost three years ago. It has been a pretty lonely business being a Cassandra. But Utne Reader is a fairly mainstream print-media outlet–a few steps ahead of most lefty places, perhaps, but not out in […]
The Wit and Wisdom of Brian–an occasional series
I have a friend (shocking, it’s true) named Brian Kenny. Brian is an accomplished artist and sculptor. He was profiled in the New York Times and in Art News, and his work has been exhibited numerous times since the 1990’s. A couple years ago when I was doing the Sex & Politics radio show, he came on […]
Boom! New York AG Subpoenas Exxon #ExxonKnew
From Climate Denial Crock of the Week. A round-up of the news that has followed the Inside Climate report on Exxon suppressing the science on Global Warming that its own researchers had discovered. There was a real danger that the story (released almost two months ago) would be ignored and would go away. I don’t […]
don’t know much about US war crimes…
This is ground I’ve been over before. Coming back to it is necessitated by the US attack on a hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan. The organization Doctors without Borders (MSF) has reported that at least 30 people (including 12 staff members) were killed and scores of others were wounded or missing. There are reports that patients burned to death in their […]
Bill Nye gives into climate hopium
Blogger Robin Westenra has a rundown of last Sunday’s (11/1) Nat Geo documentary on climate change and whether we’re on the road to extinction. He also links to a full-length (1 hour) version of the program. In it, Science ‘personality’ Bill Nye takes a lighthearted stab at the five stages of grief around climate collapse. Per Westenra: […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 