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Reporting on the background to the first ever Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels April 26-30, 2026

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#Chinese investment in Africa #First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels #Solar Energy Projects in Africa

The Fossil Fuel Era is Over

Solar farm installed by China in Namibia, Southern Africa. Solar power use grew 60% in the 12 months preceding June of last year and will expand faster through the decade. In the year the U.S. elected a President well known to be a denier of the global climate crisis, the world had an important milestone to celebrate. Shortly before the gloom and doom brought on by the policies and…

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#Costs of Renewable Energy sources compared to Fossil Fuels #Expansion of Renewable Energy Worldwide #Progress in Texas in solar and wind power

President Lula da Silva of Brazil voices repeated calls by the Global South to expand the UN Security Council and restrain use of the veto power by the 5 permanent members. Lula's recent Guardian opinion piece implicitly accuses the U.S. of using its veto to wage war on other nations on 3 continents.

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Growth of using renewable energy sources frees countries from dependence on fossil fuel purchases. Savings to the national budget can be used for social services expansion and strengthening of the power grid.

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#Expansion of solar power in Uruguay #Hydro power in Uruguay #Wind power in Uruguay

Former President of Uruguay, José Pepe Mujica's speech to the 2012 UN Rio +20 Summit on Sustainable Development has grown in reputation and influence. His wisdom and words on living simply provide the solution to surviving an unsustainable current global system.

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With a high per capita income and low rate of inequality Uruguay has become a world leader in renewable energy production.

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#Jose "El Pepe" Mujica #Jose Mujica Funeral #Uruguay politics #Uruguay recent history #Uruguay renewable energy production

What a Progressive Democracy Looks Like: the Case of Uruguay

Carnaval began in the capital Montevideo the day after our arrival with a three hour parade down the main boulevard Omar, our taxi driver from the Montevideo airport was a lifelong resident of the capital. We didn’t learn the origin of his Arabic name but we asked about the name “Azul” tattooed on his arm. It served him as a perpetual reminder of the infant daughter he had lost years ago. Omar…

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Land and Theologies in Conflict

TerritoryArab and other population% Arab and otherJewish population% JewishTotal populationArab State725,00099%10,0001%735,000Jewish State407,00045%498,00055%905,000International105,00051%100,00049%205,000Total1,237,00067%608,00033%1,845,000Data from the Report of UNSCOP: 3 September 1947: CHAPTER 4: A COMMENTARY ON PARTITION Dating back to extensive use of “Kairos” in the New Testament,…

#Biblical theology of the land of Israel #Kairos Palestine Document #Palestinian population of Israel #Rev. Munther Isaac #The "promised land" in The Bible

As the first Pope from outside Europe since the 8th century , Francis represented well the issues and aspirations of the peoples of the southern hemisphere and all poor and marginalized people. His papal proclamations remain poweful indictments of the "technocratic paradigm" that has led to anthropocentric, nationalist thinking of politicians and economists that threatens our planet and its living species.

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#Pope Francis and Indigenous Peoples;#Pope Francis&039; critique of today&039;s "technocratic paradigm"#Pope Francis&039; Encyclicals #Pope&039;s 2016 visit of Mexico

The poem "Christmas on the Border" honors the creativity and empowerment generated by resistance to the schemes dividing us. It strengthens and encourages the best within each of us.

#"Chrisitmas on the Border 1929"#A Christian Response to U.S. Border Policies #Christmas in Nogales 1929 #Resistance to U.S. Border Policies

From Aid to Empire

At the January Presidential inauguration Elon Musk twice used the Nazi salute to rally the new President’s supporters. Raised in apartheid South Africa until age 18 Musk has repeated white nationalist warnings that the current black leadership intends to follow up seizure of idle white land with genocide of whites. “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to…

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What We Need

Until the election this year, no U.S. Presidential candidate has identified so many enemies within the nation whom we should fear. The Republican Party’s candidate for President has made, as in 2016, purging of immigrants within our borders the foremost plank of his policy platform. But they are not the only group targeted for condemnation and reprisals. His opponents in 32 felony cases in…

#A would be emperor of the U.S.#David Budbill #Growing diversity of U.S. population #The Psalms&039; commentary on the 2024 U.S. election

Make American White Again

. A labor shortage for the town’s economic surge brought Haitian workers to Springfield, OH. Granted “temporary protected (immigration) status” over ten years ago, there is no evidence Haitians have been eating the pets of the town’s residents. (Photo from 9/18/24 Miriam Jordan article in the NYT on Springfield.) The U.S. economy has long relied on immigrant labor in its growth. The United…

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#Haitian community in Springfield #Haitian Immigrants to U.S.;#U.S. Statue of Liberty Controversy

Opposition to U.S. Christian Zionism

An interfaith group protests the Christian Zionism of Christians United for Israel at the organization’s summit July 29. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) In a coast to coast tour of the U.S., the Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Rev. Munther Isaac, delivered the message to U.S. Christians and their leaders that our “Silence is Complicity”. Citing our unconditional official support for Israel’s War on Gaza…

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#Opposition to Christian Zionism #Opposition to CUFI #Rev. Munther Isaac U.S. Speaking Tour #U.S. Christian Division over Gaza Response

Kansas City Haberdasher and the Founding of Israel

Eddie Jacobson with former U.S. President Truman in Downtown Kansas City The 1948 announcement of Israel’s creation owed a great deal to a notable friendship. In his unqualified endorsement of the move President Harry Truman defied Secretary of State George Marshall and the U.S. foreign policy establishment. In doing so he did, however, demonstrate his loyalty to an enduring…

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#Edward Jacobson and Israel&039;s founding #Harry Truman&039;s friendship with Eddie Jacobson #Origins of U.S. aid of Israel #Truman&039;s support for Israel

Palestinian Christians Call for Repentance

Gaza’s Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius where families had sought refuge soon after Israel began its bombing in response to the Hamas attacks. Nineteen churches and mosques were bombed in the first month of the war on Gaza. Raised by Christian minister parents I married a Jewish woman from a Conservative Jewish family and at age 35 did so with a commitment to Judaism. Following Jewish…

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#Sabeel.org #Solidarity with Palestinian Christians #Sources of Palestinian resistance

A Bethlehem Christmas Appeal for Solidarity

Separation wall dividing Bethlehem from Jerusalem; begun in 2002 as response to Palestinian Second Intifada, it stands 26 feet high. 2018 Photo by Alissa on the website inlocamotion.com . “We are angry… We are broken… This should have been a time of joy; instead, we are mourning. We are fearful.” With these words Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac began his Christmas sermon “Christ in the Rubble” in…

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#"Christ in the Rubble" Christmas sermon in Bethlehem #Christian Arab population of Bethlehem #Rev. Dr. Munther Issac Christmas message #The wall separating Israel from its occupation territories

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