This weekend His Holiness the Dalai Lama affirmed his support for Pope Francis' call for climate action, and called for a 2 year timeframe to plan a transition off of fossil fuels.
This is getting serious:
U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority amounts to roughly $400 million a year.
"Those flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage, this is about resistance to civil rights."
-Ken Burns, Filmmaker behind "The Civil War" series
TPP:
A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter, and it's as bad as many of us feared.
Now we know why the corporations and the Obama administration want the TPP, a huge "trade" agreement being negotiated between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it's too late to stop it.
The section of the TPP that has leaked is the "Investment" chapter that includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses. WikiLeaks has the text and analysis, and the Times has the story, in "Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.":
An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment "expectations" and hurt their business, according to a classified document.The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's remaining economic agenda -- would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings -- federal, state or local -- before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.
The WikiLeaks analysis explains that this lets firms "sue" governments to obtain taxpayer compensation for loss of "expected future profits."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-huge-tpp_b_6956540.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000015
It's as bad as we feared.
http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/06/29/obama-interview-david-attenborough?cmpid=ait-fb
David Attenborough makes the case for how childlike wonder for the natural world can help stop #ClimateChange—and Barack Obama agrees. What an amazing conversation.
The gathering is just over one month after Dylann Roof allegedly entered an historic church in Charleston and shot to death nine African Americans during a Bible study meeting.
WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG?
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