NC Renegades

Friend —

If you live on the Earth, you should sign your name to this.

I’m talking about joining the OFA supporters standing up to tell the EPA (and key state leaders across the country) that we want serious action to fight climate change.

We’re cutting off the names we collect after tonight — get your name on this list before we deliver it to the EPA.

We’re going to win on climate change. We don’t really have another option.

The question is how long will it take for the other side to take this fight seriously — to push the climate change deniers out of the way, and to defeat the powerful interest groups protecting the status quo.

We’re not waiting.

Climate change is already affecting Americans’ lives now — droughts, wildfires, and super storms have devastated every corner of the country.

That’s why President Obama’s plan is such a strong step in the right direction. It would reduce carbon pollution from power plants 30 percent by 2030. The New York Times called it “the strongest action ever taken by an American president to tackle climate change.”

When we look back on this moment, make sure you took a public stand. Add your name before our deadline tonight:

http://my.barackobama.com/Support-Carbon-Pollution-Standards

Thanks,

Jon

Jon Carson
Executive Director
Organizing for Action

Communication and training will be critical in how North Carolina contains and responds to any Ebola cases, state officials said Monday.

“I want to be 100 percent clear: There are no known or suspected cases of Ebola in North Carolina,” Gov. Pat McCrory said during a media briefing outlining the state’s Ebola response efforts. “I would rather be underwhelmed than overwhelmed and not prepared.”

The update comes after recently confirmed cases in Texas and Ebola scares across the country, including one in Boone last week.

State officials are using lessons learned during the smallpox and SARS epidemics in 2003 in their response to Ebola, said state epidemiologist Dr. Megan Davies, who is overseeing North Carolina’s Ebola preparations.

Davies outlined a number of efforts, including:

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the latest figures on Ebola deaths: 4447. This is a 10% increase in total deaths in 4 days. The official number of infected people (including deaths) will be over 9000 shortly. The actual number is much higher since hospitals in West Africa are not accepting patients. Which begs the question: what can our soldiers do? The amount of beds necessary to treat Ebola is more than our soldiers can handle. And this also begs the question of their training: a trained RN was infected with Ebola in Dallas using full biological safety protocols. Which then begs the question: how many soldiers will be infected with this airborne virus?

David DeGerolamo

The economic collapse in Japan was forestalled by the same measures instituted by the Fed in our country. But now, Abenomics has failed. And the people in Japan have lost 5.37% of their wealth in five days.

But then, we have Obamanomics. How is that working out for people hoping for change? Today is Tuesday so the Federal Reserve’s POMO policy will try to prop up the market. Let’s see what tomorrow will bring.

David DeGerolamo

A United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola in Liberia has died despite “intensive medical procedures,” a German hospital said on Tuesday.

The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said the 56-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died overnight of the infection. It released no further details and did not answer telephone calls.

The man tested positive for Ebola on October 6, prompting Liberia’s UN peacekeeping mission to place 41 staff members who had possibly been in contact with him under “close medical observation.”

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From YouTube:

Teachers from the State Coordinator of Education Workers of Guerrero (CETEG) clashed with police and set city hall ablaze Monday in the Mexican city of Chilpancingo, calling for greater action over the disappearance of 43 students near the town of Iguala and the subsequent discovery of mass graves.

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Why is this important? People have choices to make. In our country, people accept tyranny in the belief that they are free under the Constitution. In Mexico, people leave to come to the United States for the American Dream: free benefits and entitlements in exchange for their illegal vote. But what if the spark of freedom would be kindled in Mexico? What if the people took their country as our forefathers did with Sacred honor and public virtue?

What if people around the world did the same? What if we would stand up for the rule of law under the Constitution? With Sacred honor and public virtue?

David DeGerolamo

More than 50 people were arrested in a series of peaceful rolling protests in the St. Louis area on Monday, staged to draw attention to police violence more than two months after a white officer killed an unarmed black teenager in a local suburb.

Several dozen protesters – many of them ministers and activists from out of town – were arrested in the pouring rain in civil disobedience acts in Ferguson, the suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead.

Throughout the day, other groups occupied St. Louis city hall, shut down two Walmarts, chanted outside a fundraiser for a local politician, and unfurled banners reading “black lives matter” at a St. Louis Rams football game.

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Author and columnist Tarek Fatah  reported on Sunday that the ISIS magazine Dabiq justifies the rape, enslavement and sale of non-Muslim women – as following Islamic tradition.

Fatah, who writes for the Toronto Sun, explained that Dabiq, which is published in multiple languages including English , is aimed at recruiting jihadists from the West.

In the latest edition  of the magazine, ISIS explains its treatment of Yazidi women and children:

[M]ilitants captured, enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children. The English language version of the magazine, which can be seen here, says “the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers.” It also says militants “divided” women and children among themselves after taking Sinjar in August.

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Just to be clear what your pResident’s view of Islam is:

How much more?

David DeGerolamo