Monday, July 25, 2011

NEA has Save our School rally July 30; Obama promises; Palestine a UN member state?; TX court intreprter kidnapped, then found dead in Mexico;Cosmic rays create more clouds, cooler planet; EPA regulations coming as Obama campaigns; 100 Mile marathon foot race cancelled due to lingering snowfall in Montana

The NEA Education Insider made this announcement: The Save our Schools (SOS) rally and march is a grassroots movement to reclaim schools as places of learning, joy, and democracy.  The event will take place on July 30, in Washington, DC, but there are also ways to participate in or plan actions in your local area!
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"I promise 100% transparency in my administration."
"I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year."
"I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills."
"I will remove earmarks for PORK projects before I sign any bill."
"I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year"
"I'll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!"
"I'll have no lobbyists in my administration"
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Msnbc writes: he U.N. Security Council plans to discuss in July the possibility of Palestine becoming a United Nations member state, the Security Council president said on Tuesday. The Arab League has said it would request U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital at the U.N. General Assembly in September. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43649178/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/palestine-un-membership-debate-council-july/
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Fox News reports: A Texas court interpreter who was kidnapped this month was found dead in Mexico after relatives failed to pay a $10,000 ransom, authorities said.  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/21/us-district-court-employee-killed-in-mexico-after-being-held-for-ransom/?cmpid=cmty_email_Gigya_U.S._Court_Interpreter_Killed_in_Mexico_After_Being_Held_for_Ransom
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The Canada Free Press opines: Get ready for the next big bombshell in the man-made warming debate. The world’s most sophisticated particle study laboratory—CERN in Geneva—will soon announce that more cosmic rays do, indeed, create more clouds in earth’s atmosphere. More cosmic rays mean a cooler planet. Thus, the solar source of the earth’s long, moderate 1,500-year climate cycle will finally be explained.
The IPCC, for its part, announced that the sun could not be the forcing factor in any major climate change because the solar irradiation was too small. IPCC did not, however, add up the other solar variations that could amplify the solar irradiation. Nor had the IPCC programmed its famed computer models with the knowledge of the Medieval Warming (950–1200 AD), the Roman Warming (200 BC–600 AD), or the big Holocene Warmings centered on 6,000 and 8,000 BC.
Recently, the U.S. Solar Observatory reported a very long period of “quiet sun” and predicted 30 years of cooling.
Last year, Denmark’s University of Aarhus did another experiment with a particle accelerator that fully confirmed the Svensmark hypothesis: cosmic rays help to make more clouds and thus could cool the earth. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38627
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The NYT writes: In the next weeks and months, Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is scheduled to establish regulations on smog, mercury, carbon dioxide, mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy.
She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency’s duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.
The new rules will roll out just as President Obama’s re-election campaign is getting under way, with a White House highly sensitive to the probability of political damage from a flood of government mandates that will strike particularly hard at the manufacturing sector in states crucial to the 2012 election. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/science/earth/06epa.html?_r=1&ref=energy-environment
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The Great Falls Tribune noted: The race director of a 100-mile ultra-marathon foot race through the Flathead National Forest has cancelled the event due to lingering snow on the route that he says would make the course too dangerous for runners and likely prevent anyone from finishing within the required 36-hour limit.
Brad Lamson said that portions of the course for the Swan Crest 100 have deep snow that is concealing signs that mark trail intersections.
He said he’s convinced the snow won’t melt in time for the event scheduled for July 29. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20110709/NEWS01/110709004/Montana-ultra-marathon-race-cancelled-due-snow?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
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