[From The New York Sun] By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun April 20, 2007 In American politics, the rallying cry “No nukes!” seems to be losing its punch. The crop of candidates seeking the White House in 2008 shows an affinity for atomic energy that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. “You [...]
Archive For April, 2007
Political Briefings At Agencies Disclosed White House Calls Meetings Lawful
By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 26 White House officials conducted 20 private briefings on Republican electoral prospects in the last midterm election for senior officials in at least 15 government agencies covered by federal restrictions on partisan political activity, a White House spokesman and other administration officials said yesterday. The [...]
Requiem for the Honey Bee
[From Institute of Science in Society] Neonicotinoid insecticides used both in sprays and seed dressing may be responsible for the collapse of honeybee colonies. Prof. Joe Cummins A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members’ website. Details here An electronic version of this report, or any other ISIS report, with full [...]
Instant Runoff Voting Animation
[From FairVote]
For Chinese women, divorce becoming easier
Financial freedom, changing attitudes offer new options Wu Meifen, 33, with her 3-year-old daughter, left a condo sales office after making a down payment for her first apartment since getting divorced in 2004. (TRAVIS FOX/WASHINGTON POST) By Maureen Fan, Washington Post SHANGHAI — Wu Meifen, 33, was seven months pregnant when she saw the short [...]
Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty and Nuclear Waste – NIRS
[From: NIRS] High-Level Atomic Waste Dump Targeted at Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah “There is nothing moral about tempting a starving man with money.” – Keith Lewis, of the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario, reflecting on his impoverished community’s 50 years of working in and living near uranium mines & mills, and [...]
Environmental Racism
[From: California Greening] Click image to view full size. One of the biggest “Big Lies” in American politics today is the oft-expressed view that “Green issues” in general only matter to eccentric upper-middle-class Euro-Americans and the Green Party in particular is irrelevant to communities of color. Black Agenda Report, a progressive African-American web site, has [...]
Just in case you were wondering …
[From: The Reality-Based Community] Posted by Mark Kleiman … what a U.S. Attorney needed to do to be a “loyal Bushie” and not get fired, here’s a clue: he could indict a state official working under a Democratic governor up for re-election, using evidence that a Federal appeals court judge called “beyond thin.” The case [...]