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Obama Undeserving of Nobel Peace Prize
2009-10-10 06:07:00 [From The Progressive] By Matthew Rothschild, October 9, 2009 I’m sorry, there’s a lot I admire about Barack Obama , but he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not while he’s waging a war in Afghanistan, which he’s already escalated, and may be about to escalate again. Not while he still hasn’t pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq, nor while ... More About: Commentary
On The Obama Peace Prize ? Reverend Billy
2009-10-10 05:35:00 [From Vote Reverend Billy ] Now we have to change all our words around. I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable. All our words have been shifted by Consumerism and Militarism. Democracy is gone, America and Freedom are gone. Peace always stayed there in one place. Peace patiently waited for us to notice the ... More About: Obama
Obama Peace Prize?
2009-10-09 16:08:00 Just yesterday the odds on winners for the Nobel Peace prize this year were Chinese dissidents. Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. (Huffington Post) From the same article: U.S. ... More About: News , Commentary , Obama
Take Two Aspirin And A Hysterectomy And Call Me In The Morning [Playing Doc
2009-10-09 01:42:00 [From Jezebel] Jack Wennberg found that in the city of Lewiston, Maine, an overwhelming number of women were having hysterectomies. And, unlike apparently everyone else, he found this weird: In a piece off-puttingly titled “The Tell-Tale Womb of Lewiston, Maine,” NPR talks about the “eureka” moment (or, you know, the bad equivalent) for Dr. Jack Wennberg, whose ... More About: News , Rights , Morning , Aspirin , Call
New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online [Roe Vs. World]
2009-10-08 23:01:00 [From Jezebel] A new Oklahoma law will require the details of every abortion to be posted on a public website. Proponents say this will prevent abortion — apparently by shaming and burdening women and doctors. The law (which you can look at here — it's HR 1595) mandates that a 34-item questionnaire be filled out by abortion ... More About: News , World , Online
How Mobile Phones Contribute To Female Progress In Developing Nations
2009-10-08 16:41:00 [From Jezebel ] By Latoya Peterson For those in developing nations, a mobile phone is more than a communications luxury. These tiny handsets act as hubs for mobile banking, entrepreneurship, fact-checking, and public health announcements – and they may be the key to women’s economic equality. Currently, the market for cell phones is exploding as the technology ... More About: News , Mobile , Africa , Female , Mobile Phones
Woman?s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws
2009-10-08 02:05:00 [From Dvorak Uncensored] Woman ’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws – NYTimes.com — I challenge you to read this entire article. When I was a kid, it was common for families in the USA to all have a meat grinder and grind our own hamburger. What changed? Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. ... More About: News
Ex-Liberal chief steals $800,000
2009-10-07 17:33:00 [From Times Union] Raymond B. Harding admits pension fraud; Dallas adviser guilty By RICK KARLIN, Capitol bureau ALBANY — The former head of the state Liberal Party pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony securities fraud charges in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing investigation of corruption in the state pension fund. “This is a fatally flawed system,” Cuomo said in ... More About: Chief
City?s [Edinburgh] golf courses could become cabbage patches
2009-10-07 14:56:00 [From Deadline Press & Picture Agency] By Rory Reynolds GOLF courses could be turned into allotments because of a fall in the number of people playing the game. Residents of Edinburgh could soon be planting a cabbage patch in the 9th hole as councillors are to consider whether to plough over several of the cities six public greens ... More About: News , Environment , Golf , Patches
Sick of pink ? The Boston Globe
2009-10-03 13:35:00 Sick of pink – The Boston Globe This month, like every October, a sea of pink ribbons washes over products from sneakers to snacks. While the effort raises research dollars, it leaves some breast cancer survivors feeling that companies are profiting from their pain. By Kris Frieswick When Kim Zielinski was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 ... More About: Commentary , Pink , The Boston Globe
The Philippines Under Water
2009-10-02 17:37:00 From: reflectionof.me About a week ago, Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Philippines as “Ondoy”) made landfall, and according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Ketsana dropped 455 mm (17.9 in) of rain on Metro Manila in a span of 24 hours on Saturday – the most in 42 years. A month’s worth of ... More About: Commentary , Water
PUTTING OBAMA BEHIND US
2009-10-02 17:22:00 [From The Progressive Review] Sam Smith As inevitable disillusionment grows with Barack Obama , thanks to his lackluster performance, unfulfilled promises and often indistinguishable variation from his predecessor, it is perhaps time to put our toys away and return to real life. The Obama campaign was in many ways just a misleading trailer hyping what’s turned out to be ... More About: Putting
River deltas are sinking, thanks to us
2009-09-28 05:55:00 [From New Scientist ] THE sinking fate of Venice could be shared by the half-billion people who live in delta regions – many of them in megacities such as Bangkok. A study of river deltas around the world shows that most are sinking due to human activity. James Syvitski of the University of Colorado at Boulder ... More About: Environment , River
Say No to ?Murder Music?
2009-09-25 04:54:00 Buju Banton, the anti-gay Jamaican dance hall, ragga, and reggae singer, whose song “Boom Bye Bye” advocates killing gay men with submachine guns and by pouring acid on them, is coming to Detroit’s Majestic Theatre on Wednesday, September 30th. Banton is a singer whose music promotes violence against LGBT people through lyrics such as, “Anytime Buju Banton come, faggots get ... More About: News , Murder , Music , Rights , Violence
DiNapoli bans donors from pension business
2009-09-24 21:38:00 [From Capitol Confidential] by Casey Seiler [NY] State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has signed an executive order banning any investment advisor who makes a campaign contribution to anyone holding or seeking the comptroller’s office from doing business with New York’s massive Common Retirement Fund. The ban, which DiNapoli is implementing in advance of expected action from the Securities and ... More About: Business , Pension
Banks Change Overdraft Rules
2009-09-23 19:59:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] Banking news: Bank of America, Chase to lighten overdraft rules. As Congress considers legislation to crack down on bank overdraft fees, the industry is starting to scale back some controversial practices. Next month, Bank of America (BAC) will stop charging consumers who overdraw by less than $10 a day and will ... More About: News , Banks , Change , Rights , Rules
Don?t, Don?t, Don?t vs. Do, Do, Do
2009-09-23 16:42:00 [From Weblogg-ed News] By: Will Richardson Recently, I presented at a school on an opening day for teachers where the first thing that greeted everyone on the table in the lobby was an 8-page Acceptable Use Policy which staff members were picking up as they filed into the school. I picked one up too, and when I ...
This solar kiosk could be your ?gas? station one day ? ReflectionOf.Me
2009-09-23 14:33:00 [From ReflectionOf.Me] Bozen, Denmark’s E-Move Charging Station is the work of that country’s entrepreneur, Valentin Runggaldier, and — while those renders make it look like a flight of fancy — it’s actually real and going through a test. The idea is to provide a place for electric vehicles to charge up (in this case, eight of them), ... More About: Environment , Solar
The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful
2009-09-22 18:59:00 Full size at informationisbeautiful.net Posted via web from Roger’s Posterous More About: Information , Commentary , Dollar , Beautiful
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
2009-09-16 21:27:00 (AP) ?DANBURY, Conn. ? Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter , Paul and Mary, has died. The band’s publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years. Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s. The ... More About: News , Dead
Academy to use preferential voting to pick best picture
2009-09-06 04:29:00 [From Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2009 ] Get out the calculator — Oscar voting just got more complicated. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today took the long expected step to ensure that this year’s best picture winner won’t be hated by 90% of its members by going with a preferential voting system for ... More About: Best Picture , Voting , Pick
Cybersecurity Act Returns With a Fresh Coat of Paint
2009-09-05 02:32:00 [From Electronic Frontier Foundation] Commentary by Richard Esguerra In April, we voiced serious concerns about the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, a bill by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), that sought to give the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet. For months, the bill has been redrafted behind closed ... More About: Fresh , Paint
Pope says atheists are responsible for global warming
2009-08-29 21:25:00 [From National Secular Society] The Pope has claimed that atheism is responsible for the destruction of the environment. In a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday, Ratzinger said: “Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the ... More About: News , Global Warming , Environment , Global
Only 3 Days Remaining in Students for a Free Tibet ?s Online Art Auction
2009-08-28 00:10:00 [This is an organization I used to print for, and I highly recommend supporting. -RS] Thanks to everyone who attended 50×50 Art for Tibet earlier this month, to those who have already participated in the online auction, and of course to the artists who made this event possible. Because of your support, Art for Tibet has ... More About: Auction , Students , Rights , Free
?MONEY NEAR VOTES? ZOOMS IN ON BANKING INDUSTRY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS GIVE
2009-08-26 22:58:00 MAPLight.org’s Newest Government Transparency Tool Tracks Special Interest Funding to U.S. Congress Down to Day of Vote BERKELEY, CA Aug. 26–MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization that shows the connection between money and politics, released ‘Money Near Votes,’ a new government transparency tool. This public, web-accessible data mashup combines information on campaign finance and congressional votes. ... More About: Industry , Banking , Campaign , Give
Hope For Women:Fair Trade Products Created by Women Artisans ? Roger?s Post
2009-08-20 19:18:00 [From rsnyder's Post erous] Hope For Women :Fair Trade Products Created by Women Artisans Hope For Women brings premium quality, Fair Trade products created by women artisans to the mainstream marketplace. We are a socially responsible organization committed to providing sustainable employment for economically disadvantaged women worldwide. We offer products exclusively made by women so they can take control ...
Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama
2009-08-12 15:11:00 [From Truthdig] By Chris Hedges The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama . It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy ... More About: Liberals , Nader
2011 Nissan LEAF
2009-08-05 16:34:00 First Look: 2011 Nissan LEAF Nissan charges ahead with its electric vehicle, coming to U.S. dealers in late 2010. By Sam Mitani August 2009 Nissan unveiled its electric vehicle in Japan, equipped with its sophisticated EV-IT system that supports full-time electric driving. The car is based on an all-new EV platform that features a highly rigid body, ... More About: Leaf
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
2009-08-05 15:52:00 [From The Nation] by JEREMY SCAHILL August 4, 2009 Erik Prince A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may ... More About: News , Murder , Founder , Rights , Violence
CEA members don?t like carting away garbage, try to beat NYC recycling laws
More articles from this author:2009-08-04 16:34:00 [From Crunchgear] by John Biggs on August 3, 2009 The CEA represents the CE industry and runs CES. The CE industry likes to make and ship thing but it doesn’t like to recycle them. Therefore, in the proud tradition of astroturfing, it’s fighting back against New York City Local Laws 13 and 21 of 2008 which, in ... More About: News , Environment , Recycling , Rights 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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