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 Welcome
to the online component of the weekly current
events radio magazine - Show is now off air
due to illness brought to me by Arcelor
Mitel....See post on the right.
Feeling sick while in
Hamilton?
Ok, it is Friday October 26th 2012.
We are on the edge of a major storm, and
major election in the states.
Here in Hamilton Ontario, I have
spent the better part of September and
October watching the black discharge
coming at me from Arcelor-Mittel's
stacks. Withing minutes it enters my
home, and with 2 Air Filter machines
running up my hydro bill, I still
taste it and cough. I can't breath.
Ever since AM took over the operations
of Dofasco's steel plant, I have had
breathing problems. The stack filters
are suppossed to be working, but they
are old, and so are the coke ovens.
The company makes a big deal about
giving out some money to a limited
number of local organizations. Good
for publicity. They usually do this
kind of thing just before they kill
the community from the way they
operate the plant.
If Dofasco workers could tell the
truth, you would hear how much they
hate and distrust the new owners. No
longer proud of the plant, they search
for other job optons. Elsewhere in the
World, Arcelor owned companys cut
jobs.
I am told it won't matter what I do.
That the community is apathetic and
say they can't fight such a big
company. Others tell me AM knows
exactly what they allow out into the
community, and don't care.
I say..... call them on it. Tell as
many people you know what is going on,
and call the numbers listed on
this page. Publically out what is
going on. If each of us went after our
local polluters, all of us would
breath easier.
Don't wait till you can't breath and
struggle through each day. Call now.
There is not excuse worth giving up
your health.
Check out the pollution sources -
Environment Hamilton and follow
the personal report on the right...
Call Ministry of the
Environment - 8:30 - 4:30 pm.
Hamilton District Office 905)
521-7650 ask for Stephen Burt or
John Beals.
Spills
Action Centre (MOE) 1-800-268-6060
yes - this the local Provincial Office
in Hamilton and handles Air Pollution
Reports. Take note of the smell, date,
time, and maybe how it makes you
feel. Good for after-hours and
week-ends.
Robo calls
affected the Election
All
across Canada some ridings had last minute calls
the polling station was moved.
These
are tactics similar to Bush and Florida. Without
transparency how do Canadians know who really
won the election. . If the Harper Government
followed the procedures expected of Canadian
Government, long in the making of this Country,
more Canadians would feel proud of Harper.
Instead his decisions are made outside of
Parliament.
Imagine
having to find out what is in your Countries
Budget, "after" the bill is passed. This is
dangerous, and looking very much like the
Government regimes that are now failing all over
the world.
Canada,
we are going backwards as far as Democracy.
In Michigan -
There are two youtube video's to watch. One
that shows what Enbridge did to hide
the Oil in the creeks, the other
shows the affects Oil pollution has on the human
body.
Man who worked on the clean up exposes the deep
Oil seeping into the aquifers and down stream. video
Here is what is happening as a result of that
spill - video
Another resident showing how bad the Oil is in
the Kalamazoo River, where Enbridge says it did
not go. video more here.
No fish alive video
Help spread this
news, help be the news.
Link
to John Bolenbaugh's youtube feed.
Newest bike on solar link http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Aq8F_FY7sqw
Transcontinental Trade
Corridor link
One of the maps from
the NASCO web site
From Trans Canada link
Tar Sands Action link
If the rest of Iceland melts, or
the Southern Pole melts,
New York city will be under
12 feet of water.
Movie on Capitalism
Environmentalist of
the Year Award Dinner.
After years of making
grass-roots Radio... the Producer of the
Other Side - of the News wins an
Award from the Environment Community.
Story
From
The Atlantic Magazine
What We've Done to the
Mississippi River:
An Explainer
By Alexis Madrigal
The lower reaches
of the Mississippi River are being hit by
record floods, as detailed on our In Focus photography
blog. While there are thousands of news
stories about what's happening, I found
myself wanting basic
knowledge about how the Mississippi works
now. It's such a complex hybrid
human-natural system with a
deep and complex history that it's hard to
know where to start.
While Humans vs.
The Mississippi was most elegantly laid out
in John McPhee's stunning story
"Atchafalaya," we
found ourselves wishing for a simpler tech
explainer (or companion piece). How is a
levee built? What's a
revetment? What does the crucial Old River
Control Structure look like? This explainer
is intended to delve into
these issues.
What is the
Mississippi River? It's not actually a silly
question. The Mississippi no longer fits the
definition a river as "a
natural watercourse flowing towards an
ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river."
Rather, the waterway has
been shaped in many ways, big and small, to
suit human needs. While it maybe not be
tamed, it's far from wild
-- and understanding the floods that are
expected to crest in Louisiana soon means understanding
dams, levees, and control structures as much
as rain, climate, and geography. From almost
the moment in the early
18th century when the French started to
build New Orleans, settlers built levees,
and in so doing, entered
into a complex geoclimactic relationship
with about 41 percent of the United States.
Go to the url below
for the rest of the article.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/what-weve-done-to-the-mississippi-river-an-explainer/239058/
Video
from Walrus Mag. here
Survey from the
Sierra club - This is your voice here.
Green Party
speaks across Canada.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/50901
The big news is
Lester Brown and his Plan B talks.
If you need work
experience, why not volunteer for
Environment Hamilton.
905-549099
The Story of
Stuff watch the film.
What is happening to Canada -
good site for info
The
Green Pages
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The
People vs U.S. Steel - video's of what is happening to what
was one of the largest employers in Hamilton
Ontario. A perfect example of what Soros calls
the "Market Fundamentalism" or as others call
it, monopoly.
Background
here. Stelco is gone, and the few
workers that were pushed out of the plant
still march...while a bus load of scabs takes
their jobs. Unless Harper does something about
foreign ownership of Canada's factories, and
labour force, these deals that mean nothing
will continue.
Find
out more by reading Linda McQuaig's - "The
Trouble with Billionaires ".
Chapter
8 might as well be talking about Hamilton.
Every city in Canada can expect the same
treatment. Be informed, then take some action,
even if it is just writing to Stephen Harper.
His web page talks out of both sides of his mouth.
The Greenbelt, and
it's importance. A film
by Dr. Gail
Krantzberg
WE ARE A POLICE STATE.
Secret laws to allow Police Brutality. Here
is the link to the rule made in secret
G-20. If all the media
coverage didn't convince you, the independent
media that is posted on YouTube will.
Here is just one of hundreds of video
testimonials.
More found here - search around the Youtube
site and you will quickly see that
while Police watched nobody did
anything to stop the Black Bloc. Were
they provocatures? But there
were many many other brutal arrests
that were unnecessary. If anything
would make tempers flair it would be
beating up an innocent protestor.
Police questioned as agents of damage. Here.
The
police seem to have forgotten that this is
Canada, they need to act like they are in
Canada. Trapping innocent people called
"kettling" is a common proceedure.
Innocent people are arrested, roughed up,
insulted and bullied to scare them out of
being on the streets.
THIS
IS CANADA ! we need to take it back.
Environment
Environment
Hamilton -
what they are doing to make change - show is
listed in podcasts or copy this url
Sustainability
Network - lessons for life
Food and Climate Change
Wayne Roberts tells
us how we can make major change just by
thinking more about what we eat.
link to audio here
Here is the
Proposed map of all the pipelines the Tar
Sands industry would like to see
map more info...
The Power of
Community - how Cuba survived the Oil
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Watch the Film
Downstream links here
everGREEN Conference
Looks at Environmental Issues
March
17, 2009
A conference focusing
on current environmental issues and the steps
being taken to create a more sustainable
future is being held in the McMaster
University Student Centre on Friday, March 20
in CIBC Hall.
everGREEN is being
organized by BioSphere, the environmental
sub-committee of the McMaster University
Biology Society, and will feature a keynote
address from Rex Weyler, one of the founders
of Greenpeace. A range of McMaster professors
will also be presenting, including Gail
Krantzberg, director of the Dofasco Centre for
Engineering and Public Policy. Her
presentation is at 12:30 p.m. and is titled:
Sustainability, Green Chemistry and Corporate
Stewardship.
The featured speaker
was Rex Weyler co-founder of Greenpeace.
For more of Weyler's
writings go here.
Check the Podcast
section on the top right for recent
audio.
ENVIRONMENT
MARTIN
MITTELSTAEDT - ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
The tailings ponds
storing waste water left over from the
processing of Alberta tar sands oil are
leaking an estimated 11 million litres of
contaminated water every day, according to a
new report.
The figure, one of
the first publicly available on the scale of
the seepage from tailing ponds that dot the
landscape in Northern Alberta, is being
released today in a report by Environmental
Defence, a Toronto-based conservation
advocacy group.
The leakage amount
would fill Toronto's Rogers Centre stadium
2½ times every year and is based on
information provided in environmental impact
statements that companies submit to the
Alberta government.
Although the province
maintains that measures are in place to
prevent the seepage from entering shallow
groundwater and rivers, the report concludes
that there is a "significant loss of
contaminated water into the environment."
pulled from - Globe
and Mail
What's new? The Tar Sands do pollute the Great Lakes.
Maybe Obama's speech on stopping Dirty Oil
will become the reality. That is the only way
the madness of "dirty Oil" and all the
environmental disaster that is the result will
stop. See side-bar for links
Three years ago I had
the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Gail Krantzberg. link What she had to say
still applies today and really helps us to
understand what we are doing to the lakes.
Grandparents raising
Grandchildren directives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH3C4LXqh0
Your in your 70's and
struggling on an old age pension, but then
something happens and you find yourself a
single parent raising 3 school age kids. What
do you do to survive?
press link
Why
the Poor Can't Get Ahead- a message from
John Stapleton. audio e
Wild fermented food,
for health, and a way to store food without a
fridge. Here is the site...
http://www.wildfermentation.com/events.php?id=119
audio coming soon
Author - Mark Bowen -
"Censoring Science" the
inside story of Dr. James Hansen
audio coming soon
The legacy of NAFTA
20 years later... interview with MP Peter
Julian
read audio
Close the Streets and
Let us ride ...how Bogata took back the
streets
In Bogata, the
streets close up to traffic on Sundays, and
the people bike the roads - read.
Interview with Gil
Penalosa ... here
Video here
http://www.walkandbikeforlife.org/
Interesting
reflection on "Auto sprawl" ...
Autosprawl - End it -
Reverse it
Autosprawl
- noun. - the
intersection and symbiosis of automobiles,
sprawl, and corporate interests.
Free public transit -
the beginning of the end of autosprawl.
Now that global
warming awareness has hit the mainstream
somewhat, the oil/auto/coal axis needs to
divert us into "solutions" that do not
threaten their investment and profit.
read more
Maude Barlow new book
- Water Stress
video audio pt1 audio pt2
Spp - More prosperity
than security
NASCO web site
links
August Summit here
Dr. Jerome Corsi here
NDP Trade
Critic - Peter Julian more
audio
August
22-07
Video from the Protest
line at SPP summit.
This
shows how the police plant protestors into
activists demonstrations just to justify
police violence. Three men posing as
protestors, holding rocks were exposed. Thanks
to independent media, we get to see the real
story here.
New
report from IPCC says carbon pollution up 70%
in last 30 years. Check the map link to see
how Hamilton will be affected.
US
temperatures 'could rise 10 degrees' by 2080
NewScientist.com
news service
The team’s
study shows how temperatures could rise
drastically by 2085 (left), as compared to
1993 (right); areas in violet show
temperatures of 26°C (79°F); green
30°C (86°F); yellow 34°C
(93°F); red 38°C (100°F); dark
purple 42°C (108°F) Average summer
temperatures in the eastern US could soar by
5.5°C (10°F) by 2080, if human
emissions continue to grow at their current
rate of 2% a year, according to a new model.
Leonard Druyan and colleagues at NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, US,
analyzed past weather patterns to determine
how well commonly-used climate models
performed when replicating this past weather.
environment.newscientist.com
NAFTA
Superhighways Threaten North America
NAU
Link
Deep
Integreation SPP magahighways -
view maps
Check out
the sierraclub link for mind blowing
information.
POVERTY
Deb
Mathews audio
From
2007 NCB forum audio
Special
Diet - Hear when the fight started and
what it means for those in poverty.
Presentation
to City Hall audio
more ...
audio
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29930
Read more..
Audio
of a visit to a Special Diet Clinic in
Hamilton. Link
Kunstler
on the Stern Report
I have long
suspected that climate change would not be
taken seriously until money was involved.
Read
more...
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Audio on the
NFB - Story of Six Nations
Wendy Hill on
the history
Six
Nations - Update January 28-08
By Hazel Hill
A few
weeks ago the Crown made an offer on one
of their land claims. The welland canal
flood lands. They offered 26 million on
roughly 2400 acres of land that was
flooded around the 1830's. The
Haudenosaunee Negotiators put a working
group together to look at this offer,
break it down so to speak, and get it
ready for community consultation. Some
time frames have been established to bring
this information together, and
representatives of the confederacy, band
council, lands research office staff and
the Haudenosaunee research team are
working together preparing written hand
outs, web pages, phone lines, community
meetings and other mechanisms to ensure
that all of the people have an opportunity
to voice their concerns over this offer.
No one has accepted nor rejected the offer
and no one is going to without full
consultation of the community. The next
step is getting it out to community.
More
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