REWIND- A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
November 17, 2013
'We've reached a stage where we cannot adapt
anymore. This is new. This is like, "The Martians are
landing!" What do you do? '
Ronald Jumeau, United Nations
representative for the Seychelles,
in remarks at the international
climate change conference currently
underway in Warsaw, Poland, noting
the devastating effects not only of
extreme storm events, but also of
creeping desertification, salinization
and erosion that could result in
financial losses and even territorial
issues that the modern world has
never had to face
New York Times
November 17, 2013
Toon of the Day
Bogus Benghazi Report
Mike Luckovich
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
'In one more month you will have to decide between
those who believe that education and health must
be provided by the state and those who believe they
are a consumer good.'
Popular Socialist Michelle Bachelet
who took 47 per cent of votes in the
first round of Chile's presidential
election Sunday and will almost
certainly win the presidency in a
run-off vote in December, speaking
to cheering supporters in
downtown Santiago
Globe and Mail
November 18, 2013
Toon of the Day
Big Pharma
The Strip
By Brian McFadden
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
'Social Security isn't the answer to all of our
retirement problems. We need to find ways to tackle
the financial squeeze that is crushing our families.
We need to help families start saving again. We
need to make sure that more workers have access to
better pensions. But in the meantime - so long as
these problems continue to exist and so long as we
are in the midst of a real and growing retirement
crisis - a crisis that is shaking the foundations of
what was once a vibrant and secure middle class -
the absolute last thing we should be doing is talking
about cutting back on Social Security.
'The absolute last thing we should do in 2013 - at
the very moment that Social Security has become
the principal lifeline for millions of our seniors - is
allow the program to begin to be dismantled inch by
inch.'
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-.Mass)
Washington Post
November 19, 2013
Toon of the Day
Great Chef
Stuart Carlson
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
'If Congress does not extend emergency
unemployment compensation before the end of the
year, 1.3 million Americans will lose their benefits
just after Christmas, and another 1.9 million will
lose their benefits in the first six months of 2014.
Furthermore, allowing emergency unemployment
benefits to expire would constitute yet another self-
inflicted wound to the U.S. economy.'
Sarah Ayres, a policy analyst in
the Economic Policy Department
at the Center for American Progress
November 20, 2013
Toon of the Day
Alternatives
This Modern World
Tom Tomorrow
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
'Talk to someone who's just lost their livelihood two
times in the last five years, lost their cow for reasons
related to climate change. There has to be a system
in place to help that poor woman.'
Harjeet Singh, international coordinator for the
advocacy group ActionAid, at ongoing United
Nations climate talks in Warsaw where developing
nations staging a symbolic walkout yesterday
protesting what they consider inadequate financial
support from wealthy countries
New York Times
November 21, 2013
Toon of the Day
Help the Needy
Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
'We haven't given up hope on the UN climate
negotiations, but these meetings were a particular
travesty, and we know that they won't make
significant process until we can stand up to the
fossil fuel industry and break their stranglehold over
our governments and economies.
'The breadth and scope of today's walkout was an
unprecedented development in the UN process.
Individual groups have marched out of UN climate
negotiations in the past (I've lost track of how many
times groups like Friends of the Earth or 350.org
have marched, protested, or gotten kicked out of
meetings). But never before have so many groups,
from giant NGOs like the World Wildlife Federation
to people's movements from across the Global
South, marched out together with a unified voice.
Today's action was a small one - walking out of a
conference - but it signified a new level of unity in
the global climate movement.'
Jamie Henn
Communications Director 350.org
Yes! Magazine
November 22, 2013
Toon of the Day
Tony Auth
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
'I have always said that if Netanyahu* were to
undertake a historic and courageous act for the sake
of peace, I would be there to help him. I believe that
the Israeli right has reached a dead end. It does not
provide an answer to the social problems, and it is
locked into a political position that creates
unceasing friction with the rest of the world.'
Isaac Herzog, new president
of Israel's Labor Party
New York Times
November 23, 2013
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Toon of the Day
I'll Never Forget
Rob Rogers
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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