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The John James Newsletter 49 7 March 2015 YOU MAY NEED TO CUT AND PASTE THESE LINKS The Great Transition: Shifting from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy by Lester R. Brown The link is to Chapter One. “While France is completing construction of its last nuclear plant, it is in the process of Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 50 14 March 2015 YOU MAY NEED TO CUT AND PASTE THESE LINKS Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect Mark Twain The Arctic Ocean is coming close to complete summer meltdown The apparent ‘pause’ in global warming has been no Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 51 21 March 2015 Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. James Bovard Solar and wind power have halted the rise in global emissions !!!!!!!!!! The IEA has hailed a “surprising” and “unprecedented” halt in the rise of global CO2 emissions as Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 52 28 March 2015 From a friend: Another excellent newsletter! Full of good things. You do the best newsletter in Australia, as far as I can see. “For the first time in my long life the possibility of war with Russia is real,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWzHhW_qNiM Talk summarised here http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse250315.htm Washington’s War on Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 53 3 April 2015 Freedom in capitalist society is the same as it was in ancient Greece: Freedom for the slave owners. Vladimir Ilich Lenin Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don’t we talk about it? To keep up with global food demand, the Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 54 10 April 2015 Power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson Is this why our weather in Australia has become so interesting? The map shows that much of ocean warming in the past decade has occurred in the Southern Continue Reading →