News for GreensNews for GreensA collection of news stories of interest to Greens. Edited by Roger Snyder Articles
Police Officers Can Search Your iPhone Following Arrest For A Traffic Viola
2008-02-09 23:20:00 [From Techdirt] Adam Gershowitz writes “I am a criminal law professor from Houston, Texas and I have recently finished an article about the ability of police officers to search the contents of a person’s iPhone at a traffic stop. In brief, under what is referred to as the “search incident to arrest doctrine,” police can search ... More About: Commentary , Iphone , Traffic , Arrest , Police
Cool off or Heat Up with The C2 by Herman Miller
2008-02-09 15:29:00 [From Chip Chick] The life of a cube dweller or typical employee in urban America; some spend 8 to 10 hrs a day or sometimes more of their life in a cube. There is no privacy, you have to deal with the emotional and mental problems of your co-cube habitator, let alone deal with constant eye ... More About: Commentary , Cool , Heat , Miller , Herman
Green Party winner Tuesday gets big prize for Presidential nomination
2008-02-06 20:33:00 [From NewsBlaze] California is the key state for those in the race for the Green Party Presidential nomination nearly half of the registered Greens in the U.S. are in California, and the Green Party of California winner will receive about 30 percent of all delegates at the National Nominating Convention in July in Chicago. Greens maintain their ... More About: Commentary , Nomination
ATT will help H?wd spy on traffic, but Verizon says it won?t.
2008-02-06 11:04:00 AT&T is said to be developing a system to spot and block illicitly copied content sent over its broadband network. The NYT’s Saul Hansell grilled Verizon EVP Tom Tauke on whether Verizon was planning to provide similar aid to Hollywood. The one-word summary? No. Snip: He said the company’s view combines a concern for the privacy ... More About: News , Traffic
Obama and Paul: The Kings of the Web Election
2008-02-06 04:48:00 [From ReadWriteWeb] Written by Josh Catone There’s no question this year that Barack Obama and Ron Paul are the kings of US politics on the Internet. They both command the lion’s share of their party’s attention online and seem to dominate social networking and social media sites. So why is only one of those campaigns actually working? ... More About: Commentary , Election , Kings
The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war
2008-02-05 21:05:00 [Via Dvorak Uncensored] When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing. As one of Saddam Hussein’s most gifted engineers, Tawfiq knew that the Iraq i dictator had shut down his ... More About: Commentary , Iraq War , Operation
True Films eBook
2008-02-05 18:02:00 [From Cool Tools] Cool Tools This is the third version of a guide I have been developing for the past 5 years. It takes the 200 best documentaries I have reviewed on my website True Films and puts them into one handy book. For an explanation of why I bother to order the content of a website ... More About: Commentary , Ebook
Cost Pushes Businesses to Green IT, but North America Still Lags
2008-02-05 17:57:00 [From Green erComputing News ] OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 5, 2008 — Two recent reports look at what’s driving the switch to greener computing and what parts of the world are investing more in green IT. “The Trends in Green Computing” by the Standish Group looks at the top 10 issues driving green computing and finds that money ... More About: America , Commentary , North America , Cost
Victoria Beckham Gets Naked for a Cause
2008-02-01 20:33:00 [From LIME] Suzy Byrne Though not a personal dream of mine, some of you out there wouldn’t mind seeing Victoria Beckham naked. Whelp, it’s your lucky day. David Beckham’s fair lady, who’s been traveling the world touring with the Spice Girls, stripped down to what God gave her (well, with a few cosmetic enhancements) for designer Marc ... More About: News
Ferndale violated First Amendment by punishing protesters
2008-02-01 19:03:00 [From The Detroit News ] Catherine Jun DETROIT — A U.S. district judge ruled Thursday that the city of Ferndale violated the First Amendment right to free speech when it punished anti-war protesters on Woodward and drivers who honked to support them. District Judge Denise Page Hood, who read her opinion from her Detroit bench, said the city failed ... More About: Protesters , First Amendment
Supreme Court Denies Hearing For Fired ?Honk For Peace? Teacher
2008-02-01 17:57:00 [From CommonDreams.org] by Bob Egelko An elementary-school teacher who was dismissed after telling her class on the eve of the Iraq war that “I honk for peace” lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal Monday. The justices, without comment, denied a hearing to Deborah Mayer, who had appealed lower-court decisions upholding an Indiana school district’s refusal to renew her ... More About: News , Peace , Teacher , Fired
Ralph Nader Flirts with ?08 Bid
2008-01-30 19:00:00 [From ABC News ] With Harsh Words for Current Field, Nader Says Candidacy as Urgent as Ever Rick Klein 01.30.2008 Former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he’s convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this fall. (Carolyn Kaster/AP ...
Ralph Nader Flirts with ?08 Bid
2008-01-30 18:58:00 [From ABC News ] With Harsh Words for Current Field, Nader Says Candidacy as Urgent as Ever Rick Klein 01.30.2008 Former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he’s convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this fall. (Carolyn Kaster/AP ...
Global Warming and the Permian Extinction
2008-01-25 15:00:00 [From The Straight Dope] …consider the Permian extinction of 251 million years ago. You remember — the cataclysmic event where maybe 95 percent of all species on earth died off? … One of the various theories about its origin is that a huge upsurge of hydrogen sulfide, produced by anaerobic microbes in the ocean, had a ... More About: Global Warming , Global , Extinction , Armin
Democrat Kucinich quits White House race
2008-01-24 23:14:00 By JOE MILICIA, Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND - Democrat Dennis Kucinich is abandoning his second, long-shot bid for the White House as he faces a tough fight to hold onto his other job — U.S. congressman. In an interview with Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the six-term House member said he was quitting the race and would make a ... More About: News , White House , Race
Drought could close nuclear power plants
2008-01-24 16:38:00 [From MSNBC.com] Southeast water shortage a factor in huge cooling requirements The Associated Press A man fishes next to the water outflows of the McGuire Nuclear Station near Lake Norman, N.C., on Monday. Lake Norman has dropped to about a foot above the minimum level needed for a backup system at the plant. LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - Nuclear reactors ... More About: News , Power , Plants , Close
O?Reilly Admits ?Pink Pistols? Story Exaggerated
2008-01-24 15:47:00 [From EDGE New York City] by Kilian Melloy When Bill O’Reilly of Fox News and “no spin zone” fame featured a report on “gay gangs,” the umbrage GLBT people took was business as usual except for one thing: the report crossed a pro-firearms GLBT group called The Pink Pistols. CQPolitics.com reported on, and The New Yorks Times reprinted, the ... More About: Story
You Add the Caption
2008-01-22 17:23:00 US President George W. Bush (C) leans over to talk with a girl (R) after Bush participated in a lesson for young children on the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, 21 January 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty. Share This More About: Caption
The Opposition That the Islamic Republic of Iran Needs
2008-01-22 05:49:00 [From Critical Montages] Nazila Fathi of the New York Times reports that, from 2003 until recently, Iran ’s Islamic government “permitted relative freedom” to the Marxist Left — “Leftist students [who] use an anti-imperialist discourse toward the United States and say they have no plans to overthrow the Iranian government” but “refer to the government as a ... More About: News , Commentary , Republic
Conservative minister targets Microsoft over gay rights
2008-01-09 01:44:00 [From PageOneQ ] Anti-gay pastor and Antioch Bible Church leader Rev. Ken Hutcherson is advancing his battle against corporate giant Microsoft ’s supposed support of the “homosexual agenda” today, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda,” Hutcherson explains to the Telegraph. In what ... More About: News , Commentary , Rights , Conservative
Over 500 gays serve openly in military
2008-01-08 19:52:00 [From RawStory.com Headlines] Army Sergeant Darren Manzella is one of about 500 gay members of the military that serves openly without consequence despite the divisive policy that mandates their discharge, he tells USA Today. Manzella, with the backing of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, will be on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusOutQ this afternoon, at 3:30pm Eastern, ... More About: News , Military , Gays , Serve
Truest statement of the week
2008-01-08 19:36:00 [From Third Estate Sunday Review] Well, you’ve changed positions within three years on, you know, a range of issues that you put forth when you ran for the Senate and now you have changed. You know, you said you would vote against the Patriot Act; you came to the Senate, you voted for it. You said ... More About: News , Week , Statement
Pentagon?s UAV use hits new high
2008-01-02 18:46:00 [Via CNET News .com] (Credit: U.S. Air Force) Fighter pilots might not be an endangered species just yet, but the Defense Department has been yanking some out of cockpits and putting them behind the joystick of unmanned aerial vehicles. UAV use has seen a dramatic rise in recent months, particularly in (or over) Iraq–in October, there were more ... More About: Pentagon , High , Hits
Huckabee Litmus Test
2007-12-30 15:06:00 [From Davenetics*] Mike Huckabee reacted to the Bhutto assassination by explaining it was just one more example of the urgent need to crack down on illegal immigration. In light of what happened in Pakistan yesterday, it’s interesting that there are more Pakistanis who have illegally crossed the border than of any other nationality except for those immediately ... More About: News , Test
THREAT LEVEL?s Year in Review ? 2007
2007-12-28 14:11:00 [From Wired.com] By Kevin Poulsen It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made us love roving surveillance cams; and Jammie Thomas’ internet spoofing defense was enough to make us secretly root for the RIAA. If ... More About: News , Commentary , Review , Year , Threat
Huckabee: Gitmo Is ?Too Nice?
2007-12-23 21:11:00 [From: From The Road] From CBS News ’ Joy Lin and Mary Hood: DAVENPORT, IA - Asked about Guantanamo, Mike Huckabee said he had visited the facility and said it was ?disappointing? that military personnel were eating meals that averaged $1.60 while the detainees were eating Halal meals that cost over $4 each. ?The inmates there were ... More About: Gitmo , Nice
Paul Defends Asking for Special Projects
2007-12-23 21:08:00 [From: News vine ] Jennifer C. Kerr, AP Writer WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul on Sunday defended his efforts in Congress to bring home money to his Texas district, despite his long-held aversion to big government and congressional votes to reign in federal spending. “I’ve never voted for an earmark in my life,” the Texas congressman ... More About: Projects , Special
Colorado voting machines tossed out
2007-12-20 23:06:00 [From Yahoo! News ] Colorado voting machines tossed out By GEORGE MERRITT DENVER - Colorado’s secretary of state has declared many of the state’s electronic voting machines to be unreliable, but said Tuesday that some of them could still be used in November if a software patch was installed. Other machines that failed could be replaced with equipment certified for ... More About: Machines , Voting , Mach
EU mandates electronic IDs for sheep and goats
2007-12-20 22:25:00 [From The Register] Pilot program for the last judgement? By Joe Fay The European Union has pledged to make life easier for both farmers and putative messiahs by ensuring that goats and sheep will in future be identified electronically. The council of ministers has set December 31, 2009 as “the obligatory implementation date for the introduction of electronic identification ... More About: News , Commentary , Electronic , Sheep , Goats
Kangaroo farts could fight global warming
More articles from this author:2007-12-20 04:30:00 [From: The Courier-Mail ] Kangaroo farts could fight global warming AUSTRALIAN scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroos’ flatulence contains no methane and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle ... More About: News , Global Warming , Fight , Global 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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