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If President Barack Obama gets his way with his new energy policy, he may go down in history as “the president who fueled the fire of climate disaster,” according to the still stunned Green Party presidential frontrunner, medical doctor Jill Stein.  Stein’s remarks were a delayed reaction to the President’s State of the Union Address in which the President proposed opening 75% of public lands to oil exploration, massively expanding drilling for natural gas, removing “red tape” that stands in the way of construction projects, and delaying any comprehensive approach to global warming.

“With his State of the Union speech, President Obama adopted the apocalyptic ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ platform of the most rabid Republicans. He is parroting the fossil fuel lobbyists in saying that our public lands and our environment should be sacrificed for the goal of increasing domestic oil production.”

“The President’s spin ignores the fact that our most pressing problem isn’t foreign oil, it’s what fossil fuels, both foreign and domestic, are doing to our planet. The President’s ‘all of the above’ approach to polluting energy is an alarming denial of the climate emergency we face and the urgent need to substantially reduce the amount of carbon we exhaust into the atmosphere. Our nation and human society around the world are already experiencing serious climate disruption. The President has given up the fight against climate change just when we most need to expand our efforts.”

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[In this press release, Jill Stein (Green Party candidate for president) expresses serious concern about the federal role in the Occupy Wall Street crackdowns.]

Stein calls for Investigation of Federal Role in Brutal Occupy Wall Street Crackdowns

Responding to reports that security officials within the Obama Administration held meetings with local authorities that led to a brutal national police crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street protests – including flagrant violations of freedom of the press –  the Green Party’s Jill Stein called for a full investigation of the federal role. She urged that new federal guidelines be established to “prevent the lethal power of post-9/11 militarized security from being turned against the American people.”  

According to news reports, officials of the FBI and Homeland Security Agency advised mayors and other municipal officials regarding the use of harsh, military-style techniques against people in the OWS encampments. The Federal officials reportedly tutored the municipal officials on ways to find legal excuses for closing down the encampments, on the use of riot police and advanced weaponry, and on techniques for interfering with press coverage of the evictions.

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Governor Deval Patrick recently signed a state budget that imposed painful cuts on education, social services, and the environment.  But he says it was the best that he could do, so don’t blame  him.  Jill Stein makes a compelling case that the cuts were – in fact – avoidable, and that the choice of where the pain would fall was deliberate.  This is a debate that needs to happen.

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