Credo Action has the web page Deadline: Tell Sec. Kerry: Keystone XL is NOT in our national interest.

Submit a comment right now to send the message that the “game over for the climate” Keystone XL pipeline is NOT in our national interest.

Not only is it not in our national interest, it is not in the world’s interest. I have heard it said that if we don’t build the pipeline, then someone else will make use of this oil.  Fine, let it be on someone else’s conscience, not ours.

If countries around the world see that Canada is having any trouble selling their particularly environmentally harmful oil, then maybe it will give them just a moment’s pause before they embark on a similar project.  It would be a start. Even a moment’s pause us better than no pause.

This is coming from one who considered investing in tar sands oil projects years ago, but was too afraid that the investment was already overpriced.  I didn’t know about the environmental implications at the time.

The UK Guardian has the story Venezuela protests: the other side of the story.

We hear from Venezuelans who did not take part in the recent anti-government demonstrations for their take on what’s happening in the country

I don’t claim that this is any more an authoritative view of what is going on than the reports you hear in our press.

It is worthwhile to consider that the protests like the Arab Spring that toppled the dictatorial governments in the middle east can also be used to topple democratically elected governments.  The CIA has a long history of using these kinds of protests to topple governments in South America that we don’t like.

Read the comments in the article, and try to see the possibilities for truth and lies on any side of the discussion.  If that doesn’t boggle your mind, I don’t know what will.  I guess the only answer is to retreat to your preconceived notions whatever they may be.  I have already decided that mine must be right.