News for GreensNews for GreensA collection of news stories of interest to Greens. Edited by Roger Snyder Articles
Anyone can be president ? except Ralph Nader
2008-02-29 04:22:00 [From ScrippsNews] [Notice: Ralph Nader is no longer a candidate for the GP nomination, but this issue is an important one for all parties to face. -RS] By KEN WARD, Scripps Howard News Service Bloggers already are deriding him as the second coming of Harold Stassen. Democrats, who accused him of swinging the 2000 election to the Republicans, now ... More About: Commentary , President
Nader picks Matt Gonzalez as veep
2008-02-28 22:23:00 [From Nola.com] By ANN SANNER The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader selected Matt Gonzalez, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to be his running mate. “I want someone who shares my sense of justice and opposition to corporate state control over our society,” Nader said Thursday at a news conference ... More About: Commentary
Hillary, Gloria, and the Vagina Litmus Test
2008-02-28 15:48:00 [From Feministing ] Posted by Ann They may be on opposite ends of the political spectrum, Gloria Steinem and Michael Barone seem to be in agreement that young women’s lack of support for Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses indicates that they are in denial about the pervasive sexism in American society. Barone: Today’s young women voters are ... More About: Commentary , Test , Vagina
Knowing what?s best for poor people
2008-02-27 22:21:00 [From Stuff White People Like] White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day. They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job ... More About: Commentary , Knowing , Poor
Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches
2008-02-25 02:38:00 [From washingtonpost.com] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers’ Devices By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside ... More About: Commentary , Electronics , Clarity
Turkish troops out of Kurdistan!
2008-02-24 17:19:00 [From Liberal Conspiracy] Within the past four days, following a lengthy campaign of aerial bombings, a Turkish ground invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan has begun. 10,000 troops in total rolled across the border on Thursday night, according to the Turkish Daily News. This was on the pretext of hunting members of the PKK who live in camps ... More About: Commentary , Troops
Nader is in the race
2008-02-24 17:07:00 [From Third Party Watch] Ralph Nader declared his intention to seek the Presidency this morning on Meet the Press, blasting McCain, Clinton and Obama as candidates that are refusing to discuss or address issues that the majority of American Citizens want such as single payer universal health care, reigning in a wasteful and bloated Defense budget, ... More About: Commentary , Race
The Limits of Biofuels
2008-02-23 19:20:00 [From The future is Green] The use of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels has exploded in the last few years, as oil production has plateaued. In the past six years the amount of land devoted to biofuels has risen from 12 million hectares to 80 million hectares. At the same time world population continues ... More About: Commentary , Limits , Biofuels
Art for housewives
2008-02-22 23:22:00 [From The Eco Street Blog] I’ve long been an admirer of Cynthia Korzekwa’s blog “art for housewives”. The idea behind Cynthia’s art (and blog) is the recycling of household items into art. She uses what many would consider to be rubbish to frame her work, or to inspire it, or to be the canvas ... More About: Commentary
Blue Cross halts letters amid furor
2008-02-15 01:42:00 [From Los Angeles Times] Its request to doctors for data that could lead to policy rescissions was widely criticized. By Lisa Girion and Jordan Rau, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Facing a torrent of criticism Tuesday, Blue Cross of California abruptly halted its practice of asking physicians in a letter to look for medical conditions that could ... More About: Commentary , Letters
Army Buried Iraq Post-War Planning Study
2008-02-12 05:24:00 [From MotherJones Blog] Fearing the wrath of then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the White House, the Army buried a detailed unclassified study it had commissioned assessing why Iraq post-war planning had been such a disaster, the New York Times’ Michael Gordon reports. After 18 months of research, RAND submitted a report in the summer of 2005 ... More About: Commentary , Study , Planning , Post
Threat to Campus Reactors Cited
2008-02-12 03:29:00 [From New York Times] By MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON — The risk of a terrorist attack on a nuclear research reactor on a college campus, and the potential consequences, have been underestimated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to Congressional auditors. Their report complained that the commission had overruled expert contractors who thought differently and misrepresented what the ... More About: Commentary , Campus , Threat
NYC schools go burger-free after cruelty charges
2008-02-10 17:38:00 [From Newsday.com] A video released the Humane Society of the United States shows workers using barbaric methods to force sick cows to stand up in order to pass inspection for slaughter. (Humane Society of the United States / February 8, 2008) BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | jennifer.kelleher@newsday.com New York City school cafeterias were hamburger-free this week after an ... More About: Schools , Free , Burger , Cruelty
I wouldn?t steal
2008-02-10 04:30:00 [From iwouldntsteal.net] Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you to watch their propaganda. They claim that [downloading movies is the same as snatching bags, stealing cars or shoplifting]. That’s simply not true – making a copy is fundamentally different from stealing. The media ... More About: Commentary , Steal
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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