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Israeli Cosmetic Company Is About to Learn It Can?t Cover Up Its Role in th
2009-08-01 04:48:00 [From AlterNet] By Nancy Kricorian Ahava is an Israeli profiteer exploiting the natural resources of occupied Palestine to sell its exotic beauty products. CodePink protests AHAVA in Tel Aviv As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International ... More About: News , Cosmetic , Company , Rights , Violence
Signing election petitions goes high-tech
2009-07-31 20:30:00 [From The Columbus Dispatch] May 26, 2008 BY ALAN JOHNSON Photo: SHARI LEWISDISPATCH A signature made with this electronic pen can be verified against voter rolls. Tech nology finally has caught up with the decades-old pen-and-paper process used to gather signatures of registered voters to place issues on the ballot. A new high-tech system is being pioneered locally by the Ohio Petition ... More About: News , High Tech , Election , Petitions
Live Feed of the Green Party ? US Annual Meeting
2009-07-24 16:12:00 (Feed will be live during meeting events, recorded other times.) At the Green Party NY web site. More About: Live , Green Party
Nintendo gives girls ?life lessons? on how to achieve their social beauty s
2009-07-14 15:46:00 Really, Nintendo? Check out Wired’s take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one (”The Daring Game for Girls ”) is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your “feminine sixth sense,” so I wouldn’t necessarily put that ... More About: Social , Beauty , Commentary , Life
What would MLK say? ? Roger?s Posterous
2009-07-14 15:43:00 [From Not Your Average Feminist] What would MLK say? Image via Wikipedia Reverend Eric Lee, leader of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has been a vocal supporter of marriage equality. During the Prop 8 campaigns in California, he attended numerous No on 8 rallies while working especially close with the Courage Campaign. During an ... More About: Commentary , Rights , Same-Sex Marriage
Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93
2009-07-06 16:00:00 [See also Noam Chomsky on Robert McNamara from Class Warfare. -RS] By Thomas W. Lippman Special to The Washington Post Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of ... More About: News , United States , Vietnam , Vietnam War
Money To Burn: CL & P, UI Have Millions In Energy-Efficiency Funds To Offer
2009-07-06 04:56:00 Image by 80sAustin via Flickr By LYNN DOAN, The Hartford Courant Late last year, Connecticut Light & Power Co. was desperate for energy conservation money. Several programs it runs for the state, which pay for power-saving improvements from lightbulbs in homes to tinted windows in office parks, were oversubscribed. The company had promised $10 million it didn’t have ... More About: Technology , Environment , Money , Energy , Conservation
Interior Dept. wants 100GW of solar power on federal land
2009-07-05 18:11:00 [From Ars Technica] The US Department of Interior has announced that it will be using some of its stimulus money to do a single environmental review for the best 24 solar sites on western public lands, clearing the way for more than 100GW of solar capacity. That’s enough to power 30 percent of US homes. By John ... More About: News , Power , Environment , Solar Power , Solar
Israel to deport Cynthia McKinney, others
2009-07-02 16:39:00 From: Green Party Watch by Gregg Jocoy Fox News is reporting that the authorities in Israel plan to deport Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney after taking the ship she and 20 others were using in an attempt to deliver humanitarian air to the people of Gaza. The article implies that Israel intends to keep the ship, registered in Greece. The article quotes Israeli Foreign Ministry ...
More on McKinney
2009-07-01 00:36:00 [From Green Party Watch] Posted by Gregg Jocoy at June 30th, 2009 First, I got a return call from the Israel i consulate in Atlanta and the consulate employee told me that the Israeli Defense Force and Israeli Foreign Affairs office has released information he read which says that Cynthia McKinney is not being detained by the Israeli ... More About: Gaza
Israelis intercept Gaza aid ship
2009-06-30 18:56:00 [From BBC NEWS] Israel i forces have boarded a ship trying to carry aid and pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel’s blockade of the territory. The 20 passengers include former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney [2008 Green Party presidential candidate] and Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire. Ms McKinney described it as “an outrageous violation of international ... More About: Hamas , Ship , Israelis
Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells
2009-06-25 17:23:00 Used in gardens, farms, and parks around the world, the weed killer Roundup contains an ingredient that can suffocate human cells in a laboratory, researchers say By Crystal Gammon and Environment al Health News Image by David_Reverchon via Flickr Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one ... More About: Human , Monsanto , Weed
Should Obama Control the Internet?
2009-06-24 04:30:00 A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. [From Mother Jones] Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office ... More About: Control , The Internet
Coal River?Mass Arrests Against Mountaintop Removal
2009-06-24 04:23:00 James Hansen getting arrested on June 23 at an anti-mountaintop-removal protest. Antrim Caskey Ken Hechler, the 94-year-old legendary West Virginia congressman and coal miner hero who has been battling mountaintop removal since 1971, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA’s celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (the executive director of Rainforest Action ... More About: Environment , Arrest , River , Arrests , Coal
Illinois State Senate Passes Resolution Opposing Afghanistan War
2009-06-18 15:15:00 [From Media Mouse] The Illinois State Senate passed a resolution last week calling for an end to the United States’ war in Afghanistan . It calls on the government–including former Illinois State Senate member Barack Obama–to remove troops from the country on an “appropriately expedited timeline” and to engage nations in the Middle East to develop a ... More About: Resolution
360 mpg hydrogen car unveiled
2009-06-16 16:16:00 [From TG Daily ] By Andrew Thomas London, England – A top secret British car unveiled in London today claims to be the world’s first low cost, practical hydrogen powered vehicle. A new type of fuel cell developed by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has resulted in a two-seater zero emissions hydrogen-electric city car with an expected fuel consumption ... More About: Environment , Hydrogen
Shoppers? cars will soon be able to power supermarkets
2009-06-15 17:12:00 By SEAN POULTER Mail Online Shoppers’ cars will be used to power supermarket tills in a revolutionary new scheme. The weight of vehicles driving over road plates into a new eco store will power a generator that creates enough electricity to keep checkouts ringing. The system uses the same type of technology Formula 1 cars use to convert kinetic ... More About: Power , Environment , Cars , Energy , Carbon footprint
Unknown Automaker Could Build The First Electric Sedan
2009-06-06 16:02:00 From: Wired.com Coda Automotive unveils its new electric prototype, promising a production model by next year for $45,000. SANTA MONICA, California ? The first electric sedan you?re likely to see in showrooms could come from a company you?ve never heard of and cost more than you?re willing to pay. Coda Automotive unveiled the Coda on Wednesday and promised ... More About: Environment , General Motors , Green , Sedan , Unknown
Aveda, Cradle to Cradle, and a Paradigm Shift in Cosmetics
2009-06-05 16:29:00 [From GreenerComputing.com] Marc Gunther talks with Dominique Conseil, the president of cosmetics company Aveda, about the first-ever Cradle to Cradle certification for personal care products, how innovations in packaging can shift markets, and why he’s found no tensions between the company’s environmental and economic goals. Continue reading Aveda, Cradle to Cradle, and a Paradigm Shift in Cosmetics ... More About: Environment
The Dirty Truth About (Some) E-Waste Collections
2009-06-05 16:27:00 [From Greener Computing] A new report just published by the Basel Action Network and the Electronics Takeback Coalition is highlighting the many issues and pitfalls around how the United States deals with electronic waste. The report concerns an Oklahoma-based e-waste recycler, a series of free public e-waste collection drives in western Pennsylvania, and the sticky morass that ... More About: Truth , Environment , Collections , Dirty , Waste
Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
2009-06-02 22:48:00 From: International Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty. During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline ... More About: News , Rights , Close , Lack
Obama to name Sotomayor as Supreme Court pick
2009-05-26 15:07:00 From: CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court , two sources told CNN on Tuesday. Obama plans to announce his nominee at 10:15 a.m. ET Tuesday, sources told CNN. Sotomayor, a 54-year-old judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was named a district ... More About: Pick
U.S. holds journalist without charges in Iraq
2009-05-26 04:15:00 From: Los Angeles Times Email Picture Mohammed Ameen / Associated Press Ibrahim Jassam, a cameraman and photographer for the Reuters news agency, is being held by the U.S. without charges. Reuters cameraman Ibrahim Jassam has been held since September. The U.S. military rejected a court order to release him, saying he is a ‘high security threat.’ No evidence has ... More About: Iraq , Rights , Violence , Al Jazeera , Journalist
Taiwan?s Solar Stadium is 100% Powered by the Sun
2009-05-21 15:39:00 [From Inhabitat ] Taiwan ’s Solar Stadium is 100% Powered by the Sun by Diane Pham Taiwan recently finished construction on an incredible solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology! Designed by Toyo Ito, the dragon-shaped 50,000 seat arena is clad in 8,844 solar panels that illuminate the track and field with 3,300 ... More About: Environment
Credit Card Legislation Includes Gun Rights
2009-05-21 07:49:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] Makes perfect sense: House passes measure expanding gun rights. Gun rights advocates found an unlikely ally in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday as lawmakers passed a measure allowing concealed, loaded firearms to be carried in national parks… The Senate voted 67-29 on Tuesday to attach an identical measure to ... More About: News , Card , Credit , Rights
Cash-for-clunkers program crashes up against the environment
2009-05-20 21:50:00 Image via Wikipedia Getting vouchers to turning in your old guzzler for a new guzzler does nothing to promote more efficient cars. By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang The automakers are filling up again at the Capitol Hill bailout pump. The latest idea is “cash for clunkers.” Interested in junking your old gas-guzzling Hummer — or maybe Lincoln Town ... More About: Commentary , Environment , Cash , Program , The Environment
FBI infiltrated Iowa anti-war group before GOP convention
2009-05-18 21:22:00 [From DesMoinesRegister.com ] BY WILLIAM PETROSKI Image by Getty Images via Daylife An FBI informant and an undercover Minnesota sheriff’s deputy spied on political activists in Iowa City last year before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Confidential FBI documents obtained by The Des Moines Register show an FBI informant was planted among a group described as ... More About: Police , Anti-War
The ?Yes We? Can
2009-05-17 17:01:00 Green Party endorses national Day of Action for Single-Payer health care on May 30
Nate Silver needs to discover proportional representation
More articles from this author:2009-05-15 17:44:00 [From Jonathan Lundell at Pragmatos ] Self-described election junkie Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight) has a piece in the NY TImes today bemoaning the failure of the US electoral system to produce competitive elections except as a rare exception. Sadly, his solution is pretty lame: The good news for fans of competitive elections is that some of these factors could ... More About: Discover 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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