tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:08:22 +0000Information gateway of the Black Survival Network. Providing survival training to the Afrikan community for nearly 30 years.http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (BSN)Blogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-7423107063294225184Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:19:00 +00002008-08-25T22:22:31.139-05:00water scarcitypeak oilhttp://postcarbon.org/disappearing_lakeAs the subtitle of Richard Heinberg's book Peak Everything says, the world is waking up to "the century of declines." And we're not just talking about peak oil. We're talking top soil... food production... water... greenhouse gas sinks... The confluence of these--largely borne from our dependence on cheap, abundant energy--is creating an amplification effecthttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/08/disappearing-lake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-6923740252622609826Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:49:00 +00002008-06-20T00:53:09.738-05:00DemocracyNow.orgJune 16, 2008The words “extreme weather” are rarely associated in the mainstream media with another two words: “global warming.” But scientists argue that these extreme weather events are consistent with changes they have long predicted would accompany global warming. We speak to Joseph Romm of ClimateProgress.org and Perry Beeman of the Des Moines Register. [includes rush http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/06/extreme-weather-global-warming-floods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-5193804496398321968Thu, 29 May 2008 18:15:00 +00002008-05-29T13:16:52.564-05:00http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/05/survival-training-encampment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-7464824844367633172Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:12:00 +00002008-04-10T10:16:42.540-05:00Democracynow.orgApril 8, 2008Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent—in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there hashttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/04/stuffed-and-starved-as-food-riots-break.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-4856638696555904430Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:53:00 +00002008-02-29T12:54:29.642-06:00A new report has found that a record one in 100 American adults are behind bars. According to the Pew Center, the prison population has grown by 25,000 even though the rate of violent crimes has decreased. One in one hundred black women are jailed compared to one in three hundred and fifty white women. One in thirty six Hispanic men and one in fifteen Black men are in jail or prison. The US has http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/02/record-1-in-100-americans-behind-bars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-2094124666900760022Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:18:00 +00002008-02-28T11:41:50.513-06:00Democracy NowFebruary 28, 2008Maude Barlow, Head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, and founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is the author of sixteen books, including Blue Gold. Her latest is Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She is a recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/02/blue-covenant-maude-barlow-on-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-2003359248821949083Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:41:00 +00002007-12-13T19:41:58.406-06:00New studies presented at the ongoing meeting of the American Geophysical Union predict that the Arctic could have ice-free summers within the next 5 to 6 years. The concentration of Arctic sea ice reached a record low this summer, as did the surface area of Greenland's ice sheet - demonstrating that observed changes in the North Pole have outpaced computerized climate models. Scientists had http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-dire-predictions-for-arctic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-9081319549910569558Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:42:00 +00002007-11-30T14:48:13.033-06:00http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/28/the_end_of_america_feminist_social In her new book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot”, Naomi Wolf says the United States is on the road to becoming a fascist society, right under our very noses. Wolf outlines what she sees as the ten steps to shut down a democratic society and argues that the Bush administration has already http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/end-of-america-feminist-social-critic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-1385568157267029845Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:03:00 +00002007-11-17T20:05:59.321-06:00<!-- END HEADLINE --> <!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 5 minutes ago Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to sea levels rising an average of up to 4.6 feet, the world's top climate experts warned Saturday in their most authoritative report to datehttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/un-panel-gives-dire-warming-forecast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-6973804880280727905Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:51:00 +00002007-11-14T14:52:33.469-06:00http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/1438201 <!-- end template: ID 59, header;print;default --> Hate Crimes -- Symbolic and Violent -- on Rise Across U.S. Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/1438201 Noose incidents and violent attacks illustrate an alarming increase in overt racist symbolism and violence across the country. We http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/hate-crimes-symbolic-and-violent-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-6083864851856789200Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:10:00 +00002007-11-09T12:10:54.286-06:00 Click here to return to the browser-optimized version of this page. This article can be found on the web athttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20071119/glover_lee Say No to Africom by DANNY GLOVER & NICOLE C. LEE [from the November 19, 2007 issue] With little scrutiny from Democrats in Congress and nary a whimper of protest from the liberal establishment, the United States will soonhttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-no-to-africom_09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-1833200199450184659Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:38:00 +00002007-11-08T10:40:36.570-06:00 <!-- end template: ID 59, header;print;default --> Actor and Activist Danny Glover & TransAfrica Forum's Nicole Lee on the U.S. Militarization of Africa and Africom Thursday, November 8th, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/1450204 "With little scrutiny from Democrats in Congress and nary a whimper of protest from the liberal establishment, the United States will soon http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-no-to-africom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-4543500797930097733Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:29:00 +00002007-11-02T10:05:34.028-05:00Los Angeles Sentinel, 11-01-07, p. A-7DR. MAULANA KARENGA When James Baldwin chose the title of his book, The Fire Next Time, from a prophecy in one of our sacred songs that says “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time,” he meant it to be a prediction that the enraged Black masses, tired of being denied their freedom, would eventually rise up in rebellion in the Sixtieshttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/11/relearning-lessons-of-fire-and-flood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-1698828875708318449Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:43:00 +00002007-10-27T11:45:23.342-05:00<!-- end template: ID 170, header;misc;default --><!-- start template: ID 146, display;article;default --><!-- start template: ID 143, dispStory;misc;default --> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1454240Thursday, October 25th, 2007 We spend the hour with one of the world's leading scientists studying climate change, Tim Flannery. An Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/10/leading-australian-scientist-tim.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-2366159017888388258Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:40:00 +00002007-10-27T11:42:09.198-05:00From Democracy Now:In environmental news, a new UN report is warning human waste and abuse of the environment is nearing ‘a point of no return’ that puts the planet’s survival at risk. The fourth Global Environment Outlook, or GEO-4, from the United Nations Environment Programme is based on the conclusions of nearly four hundred scientists. It comes twenty years after the publication of Our http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/10/un-report-environmental-damage-nearing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-407171745414547919Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:32:00 +00002007-10-27T11:33:12.375-05:00 Biofuels 'crime against humanity' <!--Smvb--> <!--Smvb--> By Grant Ferrett BBC Newshttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/10/biofuels-crime-against-humanity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-6650931363011185032Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:58:00 +00002007-08-08T13:58:56.273-05:00The United Nation's World Meteorological Organization has warned that record-breaking weather extremes have been recorded in almost every continent this year, with global land temperatures reaching their highest levels since records began in 1800. The WMO said it tracked an alarming incidence of unusually adverse weather from Europe and Asia to Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In South http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/08/un-warns-of-record-breaking-extreme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-721571997409425981Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:52:00 +00002007-04-18T22:53:10.714-05:00In science news, more theories are emerging on what is causing the disappearances of bees across the country and in Europe. As much as 70 percent of the commercial bee population on the East Coast have gone missing. The Independent newspaper of London reports that some scientists believe that cell phones might be causing the problem. The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes withhttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/04/scientists-cell-phones-could-be-cause.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-3418471852398384305Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:10:00 +00002007-03-03T22:11:46.751-06:00Africa - US Imperialism in AfricaWednesday, 28 February 2007by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon019_africa_oilOn Feb. 7 George Bush announced the formation of AFRICOM, a new Pentagon command which will, under the pretext of the so-called "Global War On Terror", plan and execute its oil and resource wars on the African continent. What does this mean to African Americans? And to Africans? BAR http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/03/africa-where-next-us-oil-wars-will-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-3005428532733035060Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:05:00 +00002007-03-03T22:05:59.362-06:00Report anticipates 9.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases in 2020The Associated PressUpdated: 6:20 p.m. MT March 3, 2007WASHINGTON - By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies.That projection comes from an internal draft report from the Bush administration that is more http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/03/us-projects-steep-rise-in-co2-emissions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-3540229243896974162Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:36:00 +00002007-02-10T21:36:26.433-06:00http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432231&mode=thread&tid=25Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.” The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/02/medical-apartheid-dark-history-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-116537392881339251Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:55:00 +00002006-12-05T20:58:48.826-06:00The early signs of climate change are showing up across vastly differing landscapes: from melting outposts near the Arctic Circle to disappearing glaciers high in the Andes; from the rising water in the deltas of Bangladesh to the "sinking" atolls of the Pacific. Reports from a Warming Planet takes you to parts of the planet where global warming is already making changes to life and landscape, http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2006/12/reports-from-warming-planet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-116460882184987753Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:26:00 +00002006-11-27T00:27:01.853-06:00BBC NEWSNew York's HIV experimentBy Jamie DoranReporter/producer, Guinea Pig KidsHIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic."We were http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2006/11/tuskegee-experiment-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-116460872584107103Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:24:00 +00002006-11-27T00:25:25.843-06:00BBC NEWSWater scarcity: A looming crisis?As part of Planet Under Pressure , a BBC News Online series looking at some of the biggest environmental problems facing humanity, Alex Kirby explores fears of an impending global water crisis.By Alex KirbyBBC News Online environment correspondentThe world's water crisis is simple to understand, if not to solve.The amount of water in the world is finite. http://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2006/11/water-scarcity-looming-crisis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17066201.post-116460863967676845Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:23:00 +00002006-11-27T00:29:12.793-06:00Check out this BBC News guide:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/climate.stmhttp://blacksurvivalnetwork.blogspot.com/2006/11/want-to-understand-climate-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BSN)