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Photo from Space of the Bakken Oil Field... Burning Natural Gas at Oil Rigs in North Dakota is visible from space at night. Fracking... It looks as bright as a city but it's burning waste fuel... Polluting the World, Causing Global Warming.

The Bakken Formation supports an unconventional oil and natural gas play in North Dakota and Canada. The main product is oil, but most wells also yield natural gas that has few local markets, storage options, or pipelines. Much of that natural gas is flared. This satellite image was compiled by NASA

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark


What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. 


Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. 


One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.



Skolstrejk för klimatetat - Global Climate Strike EVERY FRIDAY - a Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System” #ClimateStrike


Link to an Interview on The Democracy Now! TV News Show with Amy Goodman... 
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis

"Make America Greta Again" 
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Climate Change is Real and We All ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel... except that I walk all over the place... every day... I use UBER when I need to go a longer distance... and... STOPPED FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES Totally!
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American History: What Happened in 2019...

DC CLIMATE STRIKE – SHUT DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL... Youth leaders from around the world have called for a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th. They have been taking the lead so far, but now they are calling on all of us to take action. In Washington, DC we will be answering the call and building on the momentum of the youth climate strikes in a major way:

On September 23rd, 
We are going to Shut Down Washington, DC.

We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill. Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.
https://www.strikedc.org/

MEME - Global Climate Strike 9/20 - Worldwide Eco Action - Greta Thunberg



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Remember: There are Two Ways to Get
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Get More or Want Less!
What are the climate strikes—and how did they get started? In August 2018, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg began skipping school every day to protest in front of Sweden’s parliament in the weeks before the Swedish general election. She demanded climate legislation that would bring Sweden in line with the Paris Agreement (keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels). After the election, Thunberg continued to skip school to strike on Fridays, inspiring thousands of young people worldwide to follow suit. Since Thunberg’s Friday strikes, youth around the world have protested in front of their local legislatures on Fridays in solidarity, beginning the #FridaysForFuture movement. In a culmination of all their efforts, strikers from 117 countries are calling for massive global climate action, by everyone, on September 20th and again on September 27th—a full week of concentrated action that the strikers are calling the #WeekForFuture movement. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change. She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760538254/greta-thunberg-to-u-s-you-have-a-moral-responsibility-on-climate-change Tumblr, Kickstarter, WordPress, and BitTorrent are among the companies to support the Global Climate Strike by donating ad space or shutting down their websites The youth-led global climate strike scheduled for next Friday has already secured a number of corporate backers, and now the campaign is going online. A number of the world's most popular and influential websites announced this week that they will help to promote the strike, pledging to spread the word on social media, put banners on their websites to signal support for the strikes, and in some cases shut down their operations. https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3081528/websites-join-climate-strike Why People Worldwide Will Be Walking Off The Job Later This Month. The Global Climate Strike hopes to draw attention to the worsening climate crisis. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ 1,000 Amazon Employees Are Joining Global Climate Strike.
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-climate-strike-amazon-employees-2640285733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1


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CIA Cocaine Contra - The US Government Imported Cocaine by the Ton in order to Fund Reagan's War in Nicaragua. Investigations and Hearings Were Held... CONCLUSION: Yes, the CIA DID Import VAST Quantities of Cocaine... NO, we can't change History... They PROMISE to not do it again... Really... Scout's Honor!

 Gary Webb wrote the Initial Newspaper article that Exposed The US Government.  This was at the time that Ronald Reagan [Mr Alzheimer's] Started the Failed War on Drugs... Just Say NO!

After Congress stopped funding the War in Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration turned to Cocaine Smuggling and Arms Sales to generate money to finance the Contras. Most famous was the Iran/Contra Hearings that exposed weapon sales to Iran but The CIA ALSO imported Cocaine and sold it as "CRACK" Nationwide. A newspaper reporter named Gary Webb wrote a series of Expose Articles leading to Congressional Hearings that ultimately lead to Public Acknowledgement by The US Government that, YES, WE IMPORTED VAST QUANTITIES OF COCAINE in the 1980s but that is History and Some Bad Employees Did Evil in the Past  and We Promise Not To Do It Again... REALLY! No one in CIA Leadership was arrested but Low Level Drug Dealers did do time. Specifically , Freeway Rick Ross... 

YES, THE CIA DID IMPORT COCAINE BY THE TON TO FINANCE THE WAR IN NICARAGUA... Since the CIA Contra-cocaine scandal surfaced in 1985, major U.S. news outlets have disparaged it, most notably when the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb for reviving it in 1996. But a New York Times review of a movie on Webb finally admits the reality... https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/05/nyts-belated-admission-contra-cocaine





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CIA involvement in trafficking is usually alleged to be connected to the Contra war in Nicaragua and the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration. In 1986 its spokesman acknowledged that funds from sales of cocaine smuggled into the US had helped fund the Contra rebels, but said that the smuggling was not authorized by the US government or resistance leaders.[1]
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking

The Subcommittee "did not find that Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking,"[2] but it did find "substantial evidence" of drug smuggling by "individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters."[2] 

The Kerry Committee report found that "the Contra drug links included ".... Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."[3] The US State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report

The CIA, the drug dealers, and the tragedy of Gary Webb
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb began looking into links between Nicaragua's drug-running Contra rebels and the CIA. As a recent film shows, what he found killed him... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11485819/kill-messenger-gary-webb-true-story.html

Climate Change in Central America is Making Farmers WALK NORTH. No Rain Causes Starvation. Secretary of State Pompeo Recommends Everyone Move North to "Solve" Global Warming Problems... Of Course, That Plan Fails When We RUN OUT OF NORTH to Move To...

 He recommends Americans go to Canada and Alaska to avoid disasters Like Hurricanes in New Orleans and Wild fires in California. GOOD PLAN, for about TEN Years... and then we simply run out of NORTH when we are all living on the poles... Can't go any further than the North Pole and when that becomes Uninhabitable... Extinction... Hey, maybe he's looking at his own lifespan and making a plan for ten years is excellent when you are OLDER THAN DIRT... We need to get all the Old White Men out of Running the Government and Industry. We have a limited Knowledge Base and CANNOT THINK UP A SOLUTION to problems that we caused... I Know... I am an old white man and... Thinking up NEW ideas simply does not happen to Elderly People... Look at Rock Musicians like Pete Townsend... He hasn't written a song in 30 years... I haven't written a song in sixteen years... I had a really creative period in the 1980s and the early 2000s but the well has gone dry... WE NEED YOUNG PEOPLE TO THINK UP NEW PLANS for solving these problems...  I remember that when I was a kid we drove all over the place just to hear another Grateful Dead Concert... All that driving around CAUSED air pollution that caused Climate Change. NO, It's not the oil companies that are to blame... it's the people buying gas... It's people driving driving driving on vacation and every day to work. What IF we moved the OFFICE Closer to home? Then commuting to work would be shorter. What IF we just filled all those empty shopping malls with light industrial factories?  

What about a Cultural Shift? Car races would be NO LONGER FUN if everyone knew that extinction was caused by driving. Who would want to go to the Daytona 500 or Indianapolis if Cars Were Not Socially HIP? I remember that on Friday and Saturday nights they had car races at the Fairgrounds in the Summer. I could hear them and they sounded like angry bees. Definitely a Bad Sound. AND YET, people were buying tickets to go to the races... ABSURD! The sound is the sound of death. Chainsaws also sound like death. Leaf Blowers sound like death. Motorcycles Sound Like Death. and they all smell like death... Just attach a hose to your car's tailpipe and force the exhaust in thru a window that's rolled down two inches... turn on the engine and sit inside with all the other windows rolled up. That's a standard way to commit suicide. In a larger view... We are All in a closed system... the atmosphere of planet earth is just like the inside of a car with the windows rolled up. We are pumping pollution into the air... Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide... totally fatal if breathed in sufficient quantities... Burning Coal to make electricity releases Fatal Exhaust also. WE NEED TO USE LESS ELECTRICITY until the time when it is all generated by Solar, Wind, Hydro and BIOMASS. Biomass uses waste wood, sawdust to generate electricity... It is important to get rid of that waste somehow... and Biomass power plants are better than putting it in the City Dump. Use less electricity by simply turning the light switch off when leaving the room... Just like your mother taught you... What if we had Motion sensor lights everywhere? Lights come on when people are in the room ONLY. What if we removed HALF of the streetlights? What IF we unplugged all those transformers that power our modems and computers and televisions and phones? Transformers GET WARM even when the machine they are powering is turned off. WARM? WHY? There is A Coil of wire sucking up alternating current all day every day... it's used to convert 110 volts AC to 12 volts DC... But you pay for it on your electric bill even when you are not using it! Computer GEEKS call the Wall Warts. Plug them all into a power strip with a switch and when you are done, flick the damn switch... You Planet Will Thank You...

What IF Amazon, Microsoft or Warren Buffet pays a Billion Dollars to invent a Better Air Conditioner? Everyone wants to be cool in the Summer and Every Air Conditioner Uses a LOT of Power... I read that the Univesity of Singapore is doing groundbreaking research... WHAT IF we behaved Smart? Invest in something Useful? Stop inventing new Drone Bombers... There is no need to find a faster way to kill people. Lockheed, Raytheon and General Atomics are Merchants of Death. NOW, a Raytheon Employee is Acting Secretary of Defense... Wow, Obvious Corruption or WHAT! 

I see TV advertisements for Brand New Giant Trucks and Insurance and... I just laugh... I don't own a car... I'm not going to buy one anytime soon... It makes no difference at all how wonderful the tailgate on a truck is... I don't care, I don't Care, I don't CARE, I JUST DON"T CARE! Limu-EMU? Nope... Not My Bird... 

Trumpnik Steven Miller questions if the Words on the Statue of Liberty are Valid Anymore. Maybe they made sense when Irish Peasants were coming to America but... Now those people have Brown Skins and Doesn't that change everything? Yes, we welcome immigrants from White Countries like Slovenia but... People that don't speak English? NO! Walk South... That's what CZAR Donald the First Recommends. CRAZY. What we should be doing is welcoming immigrants and helping them integrate into American Society. Help the find Jobs and places to live and teach their Children how to speak English... The SECOND Generation does very well in the USA. Witness the Success of the HMONG and Vietnamese. The Success of the Germans and the Poles. The Italians and the Puerto Ricans...    

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