US liquefied natural gas giant Cheniere Energy has evacuated and temporarily suspended operations at its Sabine Pass LNG project in Louisiana as Hurricane Laura approaches the US Gulf Coast.

The facility, where five enormous ‘production trains’ are operational and a sixth is under construction, is located in Louisiana’s Cameron Parish, in the weaker side of the storm.

Sabine Pass, which was in the path of Laura, was built on the cheap by converting an Import LNG plant to Export. But the giant tanks immediately sprung dangerous leaks, from 14 points around the base of a second LNG storage tank (Energywire, Feb. 12 2018) and was finally ordered by PHMSA to close two of the enormous tanks.

Cherniere claimed there was ”no danger to the public”, ie. that only the 500 workers would get blown to pieces if the liquid cryogenic gas got to the sea at the right dilution. Now with 5 times the production a failed tank of LNG gas (compressed 500 times) could explode all, potentially with the force of up to 30 Horoshima nukes, destroying at least the city of Port Arthur across the estuary. see Peligros del Gas Natural Licuado (GNL)/

In 2018 they were lucky. Safety corners are cut and environmental and climate costs ignored in the capitalist/ nationalist race to ‘Make America Great’.

A hurricane caused explosion of Sabine Pass or another new LNG export plant could make the colossal Lebanese port explosion look like a firework. It might even pause the US drive to dominate the energy and plastics industries and force the continued use of fossil fuels.

/continues further down.. + CANCER ALLEY RESISTANCE + THE METHANE BOMB

The world should ban US Frack Gas, Frack Oil and Frack Plastics.. The US frackers are EXEMPT from clean water laws and get all kinds of hidden subsidies with all opposition steamrollered, while permanently poisoning aquifers, releasing mega amounts of methane which isn’t even measured, destroying people’s health causing cancers and deformities with total impunity, killing animals, insects, fish, birds, etc and abandoning wells right, left and center to frack new ones, leaving toxic ponds….. etc etc.

Oil and chemical spills from Hurricane Harvey

Why should we accept their ecocidal Frack Gas/Oil/Plastic?? We have far too much already, there’s a glut of fossil fuels, and it’s just adding to Climate Chaos.. It is just to give the US bully regime more profits and help them screw the Russians? Why should we help NATO lunatic morons surround and provoke Russia with more and more bases and nuclear missiles..

“Fracking” Shale Gas Emissions Far Worse Than Coal For Climate …A groundbreaking report from Cornell University researchers confirming that shale gas recovered through high volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” will produce even more greenhouse gases than the burning of coal in the next two decades – a critical window in which society must reduce emissions to combat climate change.?

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More irony if Hurricane Laura caused chemical fire in ‘Frack Plastic’ (LPG) industry which promotes Climate enhanced hurricanes.

Residents of an area just west of Lake Charles, Louisiana have been ordered to

shelter in place, close all windows and turn off air conditioning, due to a fire at a chemical plant in the wake of Hurricane Laura. Governor John Bel Edwards himself tweeted at the residents of Westlake, Moss Bluff and Sulphur to “shelter in place, close your windows and doors and TURN OFF YOUR AIR CONDITIONING UNITS.” Also ironic as many people still have no electricity. “There is a chemical fire,” he added. “Stay inside and wait for additional direction from local officials.” Tons of chlorine falling in the lake may kill all remaining life. The Cameron parish issued a mandatory evacuation order starting at 1 pm Monday, according to local reports

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see also: What is the real cost of cheap Russian gas? STOP both US and Russian

The Methane Bomb: New Proof that Frack Gas is Twice as Bad as Coal for

Climate

Cheniere shuts Louisiana Sabine Pass LNG plant ahead of Hurricane LauraU.S. liquefied natural gas company CheniereEnergy Inc said on Tuesday it temporarily suspendedoperations … Cheniere evacuates Sabine Pass LNG

Hurricane Laura impact on energy markets | ICIS

https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2020/08/27/10545399/topic-page-hurricane-laura-impact-on-energy-marketsCameron LNG in Louisiana has planned for reduced rates ahead of Hurricane Laura, while Cheniere’sSabinePasssuspendedoperations on 25 August. An estimated 1.7bn cubic feet (bcf)/day of offshore Gulf of Mexico gas production has been shut in, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.

Hurricane Laura Biggest Threat to Gulf Oil Output

https://www.oedigital.com/news/481211-hurricane-laura-biggest-threat-to-gulf-oil-output-since-2005CheniereEnergy Inc, the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied natural gas, evacuated staff and suspendedoperationsatitsSabinePassLNG export terminal on the Texas/Louisiana border. Motiva Enterprises, Total SA and Valero Energy began cutting operationsat their Port Arthur, Texas, refineries, according to people familiar with the matter.

you can’t win

Even shut down, Texas oil refineries in Hurricane Laura’s path will emit nearly 4 million pounds of pollution By Zoya Teirstein Aug 26,

Continue reading “Climate fueled Hurricanes suspend Frack Gas exports of US Climate Criminals, cause toxic chemical fire”

Fire balloons and air raids ratchet up tension as Hamas pushes for the complete removal of Israel’s devastating siege. by Ali Adam26 Aug 2020 06:48 GMT

Gaza City – The threat of a new Gaza war continues to rise as Palestinians demand an end to the devastating 13-year-long blockade and Israel tightens the screws on Gaza’s economy while targeting Hamas positions.

Gaza’s power station shuts down as Israel cuts off diesel imports (2:49)

Israeli warplanes and tanks bombed Hamas military sites early on Tuesday in response to the incendiary balloons launched from Gaza towards Israel’s south, according to an Israeli army statement. 

It was the 16th day in a row that Israel launched attacks against Hamas’s infrastructure and agricultural land in the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s military factions did not respond on Wednesday, although they previously launched rockets towards Israel after attacks last week.

Continue reading “Hamas: Gaza will not ‘remain silent’ as Israel escalates siege and Daily Bombings”

.by claytoonz . shared with thanks. tweets and pics added.

With a cult following as stupid, racist, and reactionary as Donald Trump’s, it’s very dangerous when he encourages division and violence. Donald Trump telegraphs his people to incite violence and other times, he’s not saying it clear.

Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man was shot in the back at least seven times by the Kenosha, Wisconsin Police Department. For you Trump cultists out there, it doesn’t matter if he had a criminal history. It doesn’t matter if there was a warrant for his arrest. It doesn’t matter if he resisted arrest. Police do not have the right to use lethal force on unarmed people who aren’t posing a threat. The cops shot him in front of children.

Kyle’s full name and social media accounts were quickly discovered. Kyle is a hardcore supporter of “Blue Lives Matter.”

For the past few days, there have been protests in Kenosha. Yes, there has been violence and destruction. Now, inject white gun-toting militia men posing as vigilantes and you have a recipe for a disaster. What does this have to do with Donald Trump? Everything.

Last night during the Trump hate convention, I only heard Jacob Blake’s name once. Melania mentioned unrest in the streets but all she said about that was an acknowledgement of it.

Also from last night, armed militia men took to the streets in Kenosha, killed two people and injured at least one. There is a video of a white man running down the street with an AR-15 type weapon, who stops, turns, and starts shooting at protesters.

There are reports that when he ran by cops, he put his arms in the air to surrender, and they cops ignored him and let him go. This is why there are riots.

When police apprehended George Floyd for trying to cash a counterfeit $20 bill, they killed him. When they apprehended Eric Garner for selling loose cigarettes, they killed him. They killed Breonna Taylor while she was in bed and they were looking for someone else.

When they captured white shooter Dylann Roof who had just executed nine black people in a church, the cops took him to Burger King. And when they see a white man running down the street right after he had shot into a crowd of black people, they let him keep running.

Alt-Right and neo-Nazi message-boards like 4chan, infamous for spreading racist ideas and popularizing Qanon, are already celebrating and praising Kyle for “killing communists.”

Can you start to appreciate why there are calls to defund the police? Don’t you see there are different systems of treatment and justice for white and black people?

And yes, Donald Trump approves of this. He instigated what happened last night.

Last April, Donald Trump encouraged armed men to storm the state capitol building in Lansing, Michigan. He tweeted to loyal base of racists, “Liberate Michigan.” He also tried to stir up violence in other states with Democratic governors when he tweeted, “Liberate Minnesota” and “Liberate Virginia.”

During this week’s convention, the hate and fear is widespread. Other than Melania, every speaker has promised doom and gloom if Donald Trump loses the election.

They’re lying while warning the nation will erupt in violence in Joe Biden’s America. Why, the cities will burn in Joe Biden’s America…and to argue their case, they use footage from Donald Trump’s America.

The killing in #Kenosha comes only a day after a very wealthy couple in St. Louis who threatened #BlackLivesMatter protesters with guns, who were marching past their home to protest the mayor for doxxing activists, spoke at the RNC convention. pic.twitter.com/y6cDT4a3VU

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2020

During the convention, they brought out the gun-toting Missouri couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who took to their lawn with weapons, she with a pistol and him with an AR-15 type weapon, to point them at black people walking on the sidewalk in front of their home.

They claim they were protecting their home from the people walking down the sidewalk. The McCloskeys warned what happened to them could happen to anybody in America…..you know, any white person in America. 

Police in armored vehicles thank militia members, including Kyle, for being there; give them water. Happening while police tell other people to leave the area. Clearly militia members are being given free reign. "We appreciate you guys, we really do." https://t.co/KbBeUMXjYA

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2020

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The Republicans are making heroes out of this couple, currently being charged for pointing guns at people, for pointing guns at innocent and peaceful protesters. In bringing them out and putting them on TV endorsing Donald Trump, the Republican Party is endorsing armed militias to take to the streets.

In addition, Donald Trump is warning if he loses, black people may move into your white suburb.

The armed goons in Kenosha weren’t protecting anything. You don’t protect property by running down the street shooting at people. Many of the armed goons aren’t protecting their homes and businesses because they’re not from Kenosha.

These goons saw an opportunity to walk around with guns to overcompensate for their tiny penises, to feel good about being asshole Republicans, and maybe if they’re lucky, get to shoot some black people. And ya’ know, the cops in Kenosha just might let them get away with it.

How many black men running down the street with semi-automatic weapons do you think the Kenosha police let go last night? 

What’s going on in Kenosha is a result from a message of hate, fear, racism, destruction, and gun violence.

Donald Trump approves that message. What happened last night happened in Donald Trump’s America.

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En Brasil, una pequeña oligarquía todavía posee la mayor parte de la tierra. El Movimiento de los Sin Tierra, MST ocupó una finca abandonada y la convirtió en un paraíso comunal durante 20 años, con 450 familias. Pero ahora el MST está bajo un ataque total de la derecha neofascista de Bolsonaro y una parte ha sido aplastada y quemada. La ocupación continúa y el MST se compromete a reconstruir y triunfar.

por Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano on 22 agosto, 2020 compartido con agradecimientos ilustraciones etc. añadidas

READ IN ENGLISH HERE https://wp.me/pIJl9-fGb

Recientemente el régimen brasileño, a través del accionar de sus fuerzas represivas, invadió y destruyó una parte del campamento que el Movimiento de los y las Sin Tierra de Brasil, viene manteniendo desde hace 20 años en Quilombo Grande do Campo, en Mina Gerais.

No es extraño que esto ocurra ya que el MST está en la mira de la burguesía, los terratenientes y por supuesto del genocida gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro, son un ejemplo de otro mundo diferente y con su resistencia iluminan a muchos y muchas en el continente y el mundo. .

Para hablar de lo allí ocurrido, nos comunicamos con Daniel Pereira, dirigente en el área de producción del Movimiento, y uno de los integrantes del campamento atacado.

• –Cuéntanos cómo ocurrieron los hechos del campamento Quilombo Campo Grande. Cómo se dio el ataque policíal y qué representaba ese campamento que durante tantos años ha construido el Movimiento Sin Tierra de Brasil

-Quilombo Campo Grande es un campamento popular, localizado en Campo do Meio y que posee 450 familias. Es un campamento que resiste hace más de 20 años, en un área que era dedicada a la plantación de caña de azúcar para la producción de alcohol. En este proceso de lucha existen dos procesos jurídicos de desapropiación de la tierra. Uno de ellos, es el que hace a las sedes de la antigua hacienda. Y el restante, es de las 3900 hectáreas.

Continue reading “Brasil. Quilombo Campo Grande Resiste: Enseñanzas de vida y resistencias del Movimiento Sin Tierra”

And last week California ruined the hopes of families who believed their state might become the first to upend the status quo.

by Samantha Michaels at Mother Jones August 24, 2020

A memorial to Sean Monterrosa, George Floyd, and other victims of police violence is seen in Oakland, California, on June 8 ane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.

In 2009, shortly after police officers shot and killed her 16-year-old brother in San Pablo, California, Geoffrea Morris drove to a cemetery to look for a plot of land. On top of everything else, she was stressed about money: Burial and funeral expenses would cost tens of thousands of dollars, and she was strapped for cash after graduating from social work school. A man who worked at the cemetery asked whether her brother had been the victim of a violent crime—a designation that would allow him to give her a discount. She started to cry.

“They’re not seeing him as a victim,” she recalls telling him. A man who worked at the cemetery asked whether her brother had been the victim of a violent crime. She started to cry. “They’re not seeing him as a victim.”

Kneeling man who raised his hands shot dead by Calif. police

In California and many other states, crime victims and their family members can apply to the government to help pay for funeral costs, counseling, medical fees, or other crime-related expenses. But there’s a significant catch: Across the country, victims of police violence don’t qualify.

New Rebellions Break Out in Lafayette and Kenosha as Solidarity Marches Hit the Streets Aug 25, 20

A new round of uprisings has kicked off across the so-called United States following the police killings of Trayford Pellerin, “a 31-year-old… Read Full Article

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Police departments won’t issue them reports certifying their victimhood, documentation that’s required by most states’ victim compensation boards. Plus, no state’s board will provide compensation to anyone whom officers suspected of being involved in a crime when they were injured or killed, which is often the case for people harmed by police.

Continue reading “It’s Impossible for Victims of US Police Violence to Get Compensation”

By Steven Sahiounie shared with thanks| via aletho news Mideast Discourse | August 24 ,2020. illustrations added

Turkish President Erdogan has sought to create an image for himself as the champion of religion. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also tried to claim they were following a religion, yet both used water as a weapon of war.

Water in Islam

Turkey is almost 100% Muslim and has made world headlines converting Christian cathedrals into Mosques. Turkish President Erdogan has been converting a secular democracy in Turkey, founded by Ataturk, into a Muslim Brotherhood haven, which follows Radical Islam as a political ideology, which is the same ideology as ISIS.

Water in Islam is considered as a gift from God, belonging to all equally, which has to be distributed equally among all living beings, humans, animals, and plant life, according to Cherif Abderrahman Jah, an Islamic academic and humanist.

The ISIS terrorists have often used water as a weapon of war in Iraq and Syria by cutting off supplies to villages that resisted their rule and as a tool to expand their control over the region’s water infrastructure.

They wanted to seize the water to prove they were building an actual state. In 2014 ISIS besieged the Syrian town of Kobane to secure a piece of the border with Turkey.

6 years later, 2020, the same scenario plays out, and in the same area, but ISIS has been defeated, and the Erdogan regime in Turkey has taken their place. Many experts feel ISIS and Turkey have been connected in their use of Radical Islam as a political tool, devoid of any connection to Islam, which is a religion.

Continue reading “Turkey’s Erdogan Cuts off Water to One Million Syrian Civilians in the Blazing Summer Heat”