The Florida Veterans for Common Sense Environmental Working Group headed by Coty Keller and John Darovec have updated the committe’s important report on climate change. While the report recognizes the urgency of the problem including a threat to our national security, its conclusions are optimistic. It provides ways to …
To use Paula Dockery’s analogy, David has (again) slain Goliath. The Voters have turned out the lights on Amendment one (attached). Thanks to all of you who helped make this happen!
For me, the overriding story over the past year has been the bantering about solar power in Florida. …
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The brutal, determined foe that is the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) arose from the continued sectarian chaos in Iraq following the US invasion, and it has become particularly adept at exploiting Sunni fears of Shia oriented governments in Iraq, Syria and Iran. Though intelligence estimates place active ISIS membership at only between 20,000 and 30,000, …
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FLVCS FUND, our FLVCS sister 501 c 3 organization is a Giving Partner with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and is participating in the Giving Challenge on September I, 2015. The Giving Challenge is a wonderful opportunity to help fund an exciting FLVCS FUND initiative.
We’re pleased to …
On July 14, President Obama announced that a multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran had been achieved. The formally titled “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” was negotiated with Iran by six of the world’s most important countries: Britain, France, China, Russia, Germany, and the U.S.
On Monday, June 15, 2015, the Sarasota City Commission adopted a resolution to overturn the egregious Supreme Case, Citizens United, which may go down in history as a decision as bad, or worse, than the Dred Scott decision. If Citizens United is allowed to stand, corporate money will strangle our democracy as citizens (real people) …
Once again many FLVCS volunteers helped make the Sarasota Stand Down for homeless veterans a rousing success. Since its inception, FLVCS has been a sponsor of the Sarasota Stand Down. Alice Gochberg was the FLVCS liaison with Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS), the lead agency for this years Stand Down. Job well done Alice …
Research Studies
Whether the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion was faulty or fabricated continues to be debated. Although no evidence of an active Weapons of Mass Destruction program was ever found in Iraq after the invasion; just old, rusting, unusable chemical munitions left over from the Iran-Iraq War decades earlier, some people continue to believe …
According to Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the Pacific Theater, significant upheaval caused by the warming planet “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment…”.
The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review speaks directly to the impact of climate change on national security:
Climate change …
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