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We are washing away the foundations of our existence on every front. It is high time we move from crashing about on the planet like a bull in china shop and find a way to go forward with intent. We must find systems of living based on sustainability. The systems and tools exist, it is up to each of us to adopt them.

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Monday, 7 December 2009

Fascism? Now that's the pot calling the kettle black.

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

How stupid do these right wing corporate sponsored ideologue climate deniers think the American people are? First to obviously misrepresent comments from illegally hacked emails taken out of context and then to liken climate scientists to fascists!? Do they not realize that it is their very activities done to further the control of the US government by private corporate interests that comes the closest to fascism since the no bid contracts, theft of the commons, and disastrous financial deregulation of Bush administration?

The deceitful vitriol spewed by these corporate toadies is an attempt to stave off sensible and necessary regulation of emissions that threaten the short term profits of the modern robber barons. They see the success the banksters have had in their recent raid on the public purse and are hoping to get some for themselves. They want to keep cashing in at the expense of the worlds poor and working class.

Read more at Climate Progress.

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