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Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It
2011-07-21 20:10:00 Collier County, Florida – Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank. Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff’s deputies foreclose on the bank. It started five months ago when Bank of America ... More About: Locked
Flooding in Nebraska Threatens Nuclear Power Plants
2011-07-21 20:10:00 From: The Progressive By Matthew Rothschild, June 22, 2011 The sight of a nuclear power plant in Nebraska surrounded by the rising waters of the flooding Missouri River is cause for alarm, to say the least. Just 19 miles from Omaha, the Fort Calhoun plant had been warned back in October by the NRC that ... More About: Power , Nuclear , Plants , Nuclear power , Flooding
Chemicals and the Obesity Epidemic: The Link
2011-07-21 20:10:00 Obesity is a major and growing problem in the United States. Shockingly, about one in three adults is obese, and today’s children and teens are three times as likely today to be obese as they were 30 years ago. Changes in diet and exercise in the last several decades are generally believed to be ... More About: Link , Chemicals
Tax the Rich. Problem Solved
2011-07-21 20:10:00 By Carl Gibson What if there was a group of terrorists holding your family hostage with a gun pointed at themselves, demanding the account number to your pension fund? Would you negotiate with the terrorists by allowing them access to your savings, or would you let them shoot themselves and keep your retirement money intact? Mike ... More About: Rich , Problem
Colbert Weighs In On Fracking
2011-07-21 20:10:00 The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Tags: full episodes, colbert report, political humor, humor satire <BR/>
How Many Republicans Does It Take to Screw Up Our Light Bulb Savings?
2011-07-21 20:10:00 By Joe Romm on Jul 11, 2011 at 10:16 am David Edison Sloane: My great-grandfather would be all for keeping intact the Energy Independence and Security Act. The law requires light bulbs of all types to be at least 25 percent more energy efficient by 2012. To [Thomas Alva] Edison, that would have been no big deal. ... More About: Republicans , Light , Screw
A disservice to the antiwar movement
2011-07-21 20:10:00 Michael Fiorentino and Jeremy Tully argue that the group ANSWER is wrong to tie the anti-imperialist struggle to the defense of a tyrant like Mummar el-Qaddafi. July 12, 2011 Muammar el-Qaddafi THE U.S.-led NATO bombing of Libya must end–and Libya’s dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi must be supported as a progressive and an anti-imperialist. These were the twin ...
Monsanto patents the melon.
2011-07-21 20:10:00 Monsanto has been awarded a European patent on conventionally bred melons (EP 1 962 578). This type of Melon had been bred for increased resistance to certain plant viruses. Indian melons which display greater disease resistance were simply crossed with other varieties in order to transfer this characteristic. The process and outcome is ... More About: Patents
Egyptian Constitutional Revision Likely to Include Easier Ballot Access
2011-02-22 14:33:00 [From: Ballot Access News. Maybe next we can get equal ballot access in the US--RS] February 20th, 2011 According to this story, a committee appointed by the Egyptian military to suggest constitutional amendments will include easier ballot access. Current law says an independent candidate for President needs 250 signatures of members of Parliament or local councils. ... More About: Rights
Embarrassed Republicans Admit They?ve Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Tim
2011-02-22 00:11:00 [From: The Onion, America's Finest News Source ] GOP leaders “can’t believe” they misattributed Eisenhower’s breadth of vision and leadership to Reagan. WASHINGTON - At a press conference Monday, visibly embarrassed leaders of the Republican National Committee acknowledged that their nonstop, effusive praise of Ronald Reagan has been wholly unintentional, admitting they somehow managed to confuse him with ... More About: Republicans
12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin
2011-02-19 23:39:00 What’s happening in Wisconsin is not complicated. At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then “ signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other ... More About: Things
Four ways to build the Wisconsin Wave against corporate rule | Wisconsin Wa
2011-02-19 23:38:00 Wisconsin Wave More About: Corporate , Wisconsin
Military Math
2011-02-18 14:27:00 Animation from Mark Fiore More About: Commentary , Military , Math
charity: water
2011-02-04 18:29:00 Jennifer Connelly in charity: water Public Service Announcement from charity: water on Vimeo . More About: Charity , Water
Gas Drilling Technique Is Labeled Violation
2011-02-01 18:37:00 By TOM ZELLER Jr., NY Times Oil and gas service companies injected tens of millions of gallons of diesel fuel into onshore wells in more than a dozen states from 2005 to 2009, Congressional investigators have charged. Those injections appear to have violated the Safe Water Drinking Act, the investigators said in a letter to ... More About: Technique
Centrism Wins! Media marvel at Obama?s move to the right
2011-01-28 06:01:00 With increasing vehemence since the midterm elections, pundits and journalists have recommended Barack Obama move to the right–and now are citing recent polling to suggest that the president has benefited from following their advice. But there is little evidence that Obama‘s current approval ratings have anything to do with a rightward shift, and the entire ... More About: Media , Marvel , Move
NEW YORK STATE INTERIM CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ENDORSES NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS
2011-01-19 07:01:00 Image via Wikipedia TELL THE STATE TO SUPPORT CLEAN ENERGY AND INSTITUTE NUCLEAR MORATORIUM INSTEAD January 19, 2011 Dear New York ers, The good news is that New York State (unlike the U.S. Congress) recognizes the reality of our climate crisis and is taking steps to address the problem. The bad news is that the State’s ... More About: Action , Nuclear , Climate
Eek! A Male!
2011-01-18 17:14:00 Treating all men as potential predators doesn’t make our kids safer. By LENORE SKENAZY Last week, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy Murray, noticed smoke coming out of a minivan in his hometown of Worcester. He raced over and pulled out two small children, moments before the van’s tire exploded into flames. At which point, according ... More About: Male
Animals Burned, Mutilated and Neglected at University of Texas
2011-01-13 07:01:00 An insider at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has contacted PETA to report that dogs, monkeys, sheep, goats, ferrets, and mice are being used in cruel experiments in which their bodies are burned, mutilated, and cut open and that these animals are also suffering as a result of inadequate veterinary care, ... More About: Animals
US subpoenas Wikileaks tweets, and why this could affect you
2011-01-10 14:20:00 [From ZDNet] The US government has subpoenaed Twitter in a bid to support an ongoing criminal investigation into whether Wikileaks and people involved or connected to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic member of parliament, broke the law. According to Wikileaks lawyer Mark Stephens live on the BBC News a short time ago, it is believed Facebook and Google (see here) have also been ... More About: Subpoenas
Study Suggests We?ve Hit ?Peak Travel?
2011-01-04 20:40:00 Commuting sucks, no two ways about it. It?s a slog, and a lot of us are saying to hell with it. A study of eight industrialized countries shows passenger travel appears to have peaked in 2003. The study suggests demand for travel and automobile ownership has reached a saturation point despite predictions, by the International ... More About: News , Environment , Travel , Study , Stanford
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The merger of journalists and government officials
2010-12-30 06:21:00 BY GLENN GREENWALD, From Salon CNN (updated below) The video of the CNN debate I did last night about WikiLeaks with former Bush Homeland Security Adviser (and CNN contributor) Fran Townsend and CNN anchor Jessica Yellin is posted below. The way it proceeded was quite instructive to me and I want to make four observations about ... More About: Commentary , Government
NYC: Support 7-Eleven?s New Vegan Options!
2010-12-17 22:34:00 From PETA Do you want to enjoy delicious food while helping animals? Then read on! Several New York City 7-Elevens are “test marketing” a variety of delicious vegan meals, including Pad Thai, vegetable lo mein, dumplings, and artichoke spinach noodles. If these products sell well in New York City, the company may expand the line ... More About: Support , Options , Vegan
Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
2010-12-17 18:51:00 From, the EFF News Update by Kevin Bankston In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its amicus brief, ... More About: Email , Amendment , Privacy
Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
2010-12-14 02:11:00 Call To Action by Shari Steele Over the past few weeks, we here at EFF have watched as whistleblowing website Wiki Leak s has fueled an emotionally charged debate about the secrecy of government information and the people’s right to know. We have welcomed this debate, and the fact that there have been myriad views is the ... More About: Internet , Censorship , Join
Visualizing Mortality History
2010-12-08 18:26:00 By IAN AYRES Hans Rosling, a guru of data animation, is at it again. Here is a very cool video showing 200 years of mortality/wealth progress in just four minutes: NY Times More About: Commentary , History
Ellsberg: ?EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made a
2010-12-08 17:44:00 Ellsberg: ?EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.? by MICHAEL ELLSBERG on DECEMBER 8, 2010 [Below is a news release put out by the Institute for Public Accuracy, co-signed by Daniel Ellsberg] Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures WASHINGTON ? December ... More About: News , Commentary , Made
Mass-mirroring Wikileaks
2010-12-05 02:33:00 Mass-mirroring Wikileaks Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help. if you have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some of your hosting resources, you can help! http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html More About: News
Idaho Man Builds KKK Snowman
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