Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein "Debates" Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Daily Digest 27SEP16

Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Tuesday, September 27, 2016 democracynow.org Stories Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein "Debates" Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 1 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off Monday night in one of the most anticipated debates in U.S. history. The debate was held at Hofstra University on Long Island and ... Read More → Outside First Presidential Debate, 24 Arrested at Protests & Jill Stein Escorted Away by Police Hundreds of people protested outside the debate at Hofstra University on Monday to demand the presidential debates be opened up to third-party candidates. At least 24 people ... Read More → Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 2 On Monday night, the two major-party candidates squared off for the first presidential debate. It was one of the most anticipated debates in U.S. history. Ahead of the event, TV ... Read More → Headlines → Clinton and Trump Face Off at First Presidential Debate 24 Arrested Protesting Outside First Presidential Debate Syrian Gov't & Russia Continue Bombing Campaign in Aleppo Mexico: 30,000 March to Mark 2nd Anniversary of Ayotzinapa Kidnapping NYC Protest Marks 2nd Anniversary of Kidnapping of 43 Mexican Students Colombia: Gov't & FARC Signs Peace Deal Ahead of Referendum Texas: Gunman Opens Fire, Injuring 9, at Houston Shopping Center FBI: Murders in U.S. Jump 10.8% in 2015 Alabama: Prison Guards Launched Work Strike Saturday at Holman Report: 46 Prisons See Protests, Lockdowns Amid Historic Work Strike ND: Cannonball Ranch Sold to Dakota Access Pipeline Company Robert Redford Backs Resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline U.N. Rep.: U.S. Police Killings "Reminiscent" of Lynching

Will the U.S. Senate Stand Up for Our Future? 22MAR13

ROBERT REDFORD offers a spot on description of the keystone xl pipeline and asks all of us to contact our Senators (he provides the link) and tell them to reject it and commit the nation to rising to meet the challenge of climate change. Think about the transformation of America's people, R&D, it's workforce and our abundant natural resources mobilized to fight fascism on two fronts during WWII. Now just imagine the same commitment to developing green technology, clean, renewable energy, and industry geared to produce solar panels, wind turbines, street and subway cars for mass transit, high MPG hybrid vehicles that run on hemp oil (we could be doing that now), a work force producing these products as well as high speed rail systems and upgrading our crumbling infrastructure, upgrading homes to increase conservation and energy efficiency, building and upgrading commercial properties to be green. The American people are willing and able and want to do these things, the profit margins of the fossil fuel industry and mainstream corporate America are standing in the way. Their latest best offer to the nation is sticky, toxic, corrosive, dirty, smelly, polluting (a good description of a lot of CEOs, eh?) tar sands oil. What a bargain for them. From HuffPost....

Rumor has it the U.S. Senate will consider a budget bill provision to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Here's what they need to share with their constituents:

1) It's GREAT for Big Oil. BAD for America. And REALLY BAD for climate change, producing three times more global warming pollution than conventional crude production, and using vast amounts of energy and water, causing significant pollution to both air and water.

2) Canadian citizens are against tar sands pipelines too, fighting the Gateway Pipeline to their west coast -- and through British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest -- and the Trailbreaker pipeline to carry tar sands to east to Maine.

3) It's dangerous and dirty-- it's dirty tar that's diluted with chemicals and then pushed through the pipeline at high pressure, which creates very high temperatures. It's more corrosive to the pipeline than oil, so it eats away at the pipelines, which then rupture and blow.

4) The first Keystone pipeline, already operating in America, has spilled 14 times and had to be shut down twice due to safety concerns, and another one of its pipelines exploded.

5) Tar sands spill are difficult to impossible to clean up. After more than two year and nearly a billion dollars in clean up costs, the EPA found that nearly 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River is still contaminated by submerged tars sands.

6) Pretty much all the oil goes to foreign countries after America takes all the risks. This will not solve our energy challenges, it will not improve our national security and it is not an American jobs program. (35 permanent jobs and 3500 construction jobs over 2 years.)

Those of us against this thing believe this is a bad deal for America AND it'll make climate change considerably worse, faster. It will be the third new tar sands dedicated pipeline, which will lock us into a dependence on this destructive, dirty source for years to come.

We are not irrational extremists. WE are people who believe that a clean and sustainable future is possible. We believe in American ingenuity when it comes to clean energy technologies. America has shown time and time again -- remember the American Space Program -- that with proper investment, we can meet any challenge in front of us. Tell President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. www.stoptar.org

And contact your U.S. Senator today. Tell them this pipeline is bad for America.

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STOP THE PEBBLE MINE! from NRDC 5APR12

THE battle against the Pebble mine in Alaska continues and the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is asking people to watch this video and then sign their petition to rio tinto and anglo american in time to be delivered with tens of thousands of other's signatures to these companies shareholder meetings on 19 APR12. Click the link to participate......

“Please watch our new video about the Pebble Mine, then make your voice heard in London when and where it counts.” -- Robert Redford Two weeks from now, foreign mining giants Anglo American and Rio Tinto -- two of the major backers of the disastrous Pebble Mine -- will hold their annual shareholder meetings in London. There’s no better time for you and me to shine a harsh spotlight on their plans and turn up the heat on their executives and investors. That’s why I joined with NRDC to make a new, hard-hitting video about this outrageous assault on an American natural treasure. But we’re counting on you to do the rest. Please watch this one-minute video, then sign our Petition of Protest. It will be delivered directly to the shareholder meetings in London by representatives of NRDC. Here’s the ugly truth: the Pebble Mine would dump some 10 billion tons of toxin-laced mining waste into one of our nation’s last and greatest wild places -- endangering a wildlife paradise, the world’s greatest sockeye salmon runs and the people who depend on that extraordinary fishery for survival. Is it any wonder that the Native communities and fishermen of Bristol Bay have united against this apocalyptic threat? Rio Tinto and Anglo American love to talk about their respect for local communities. Talk is cheap. Despite overwhelming local opposition, these global corporations continue bulldozing ahead with plans that could destroy the very headwaters of Bristol Bay. You have to wonder what part of “No” these companies don’t understand. Two weeks from now, we’re going to hold them accountable in their own backyard. Please join me in telling Anglo American and Rio Tinto that they are in for the fight of their lives. Watch the video and sign our new Petition right away. We will deliver it, along with your signature, directly to the shareholder meetings on April 19. People around the world have already sent 750,000 messages voicing their opposition to the Pebble Mine. Help us make it to one million strong! And thank you for fighting alongside me and NRDC to stop the Pebble Mine. Sincerely, Robert Redford Trustee Natural Resources Defense Council

TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO STOP SHELL FROM DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC 4AUG10 from NRDC

THIS is from the NRDC, watch the video, and then click the header to go to the biogems website and participate in the action to pressure Pres. Obama to end all chances of drilling in the Arctic.
Last week NRDC celebrated a major victory when a federal court stopped oil and gas companies from drilling in Alaska's Chukchi Sea -- one of our nation's two Polar Bear Seas.

But that ruling does NOT apply to Shell's plans for drilling off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Beaufort -- the second of the two Polar Bear Seas.