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Archive For March, 2008
Court: Mumia Deserves New Hearing
[From AP] By KATHY MATHESON photo credit: Aoife city womanchile PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal’s conviction should stand, but that he should [...]
10 Reasons Organic Can Feed the World – 10 reasons GM won’t
[Via GM Watch] 1. 10 Reasons Why Organic Can Feed the World 2. And 10 reasons GM won’t NOTE: The following articles come from the SPECIAL REPORT: ‘The death of food as we know it’ in the current issue of The Ecologist magazine. The premise of ‘The death of food…’ is that an entire culture [...]
Good news for green cars as hybrid cars hold their residual values
[From The Green Car Website] March 18, 2008 Posted by: Lee photo credit: Taekwonweirdo There is more good news for green cars and hybrids in particular. Mark Cowling, the business development manager of CAP announced at last week’s Car Fleet Management conference that hybrid cars were holding their residual values just as well as their [...]
TSA can’t believe MacBook Air is a real laptop, causes owner to miss flight
[From Engadget] Filed under: Laptops The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple’s thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, security managed to find enough peculiarities to remove it from [...]
TSA endangers child’s life by contaminating his feeding tube despite pleas
[From Boing Boing] The TSA endangered the life of child who has a surgical feeding tube in his stomach by opening up his backup tube, contaminating it. The child pleaded with the TSA officer, who said that she had to open it or refuse to allow the child to board the plane. After an Orlando [...]
Holding Barack Obama Accountable
[From blackagendareport.com] by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has become a media parade on its way to a coronation. Journalists and leading Democrats have done shockingly little to pin Obama down, to hold him specifically responsible for anything beyond his slogans of “yes we can” and “change we can [...]
American’s Recycling Less Than 10% Of Cell Phones
[From WHERE Blog] Ok folks, we’re officially in the Green Revolution and as such, we should all be on board. Hybrid cars are coming out in record numbers, more people are walking, biking and using public transport; heck when celebrities are behind the cause shouldn’t you be? (Please, please tell me you heard my sarcasm.) [...]
Sierra Club endorses Clorox’s Greenworks cleaners
[From Green Daily] Filed under: Home Clorox has been quite busy going green these days, what with buying up Burt’s Bees and coming out with Greenworks, their line of eco-friendly home cleaning products. Soon, Clorox will have another green credential on their resume, a Sierra Club endorsement. According to the NY Times, this will be [...]