WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau reports that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office. The nation’s poverty rate held steady at 12.5 percent, not statistically different from the 12.3 percent in 2006. That meant there were 37.3 [...]
Archive For August, 2008
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Why Prince Charles is right: we need GM free food and agriculture for food security
By Dr Vandana Shiva We are grateful to Prince Charles for cautioning the world on the blind and head long rush worldwide to spread GM seeds and crops especially the Third World. Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest environment disaster Prince Charles accused by scientists of abusing position over GM comments Why [...]
Beijing update: New detentions, 6 US protesters missing, Tibetan protesters in Tibet reportedly shot dead.
Beijing update: Boing Boing A quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing Boing: Everyone listed here is still missing. – James Powderly – Brian Conley – Jeffrey Rae – Jeff Goldin – Michael [...]
Russia condemns US missile deal
Russia has warned that a US-Polish missile defence deal creates a new arms race in Europe and beyond. A foreign ministry statement said that Moscow “will be forced to react, and not only through diplomatic demarches”. It did not elaborate. The comments came just hours after the US and Poland signed the deal to locate [...]
Beijing: Five US activists detained after lighting up “Free Tibet” LED Throwies banner near Olympics site
[I used to print for Students for a Free Tibet. Good, hardworking folks. -RS] [From boingboing] An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening in Beijing: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing. The protesters, [...]
Drink Outside the Box
[From Op-Ed - NYTimes.com] Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money By TYLER COLMAN Published: August 17, 2008 Waccabuc, N.Y. ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. That’s right, Italian wine is going green, and for [...]
The New Cold War Era
By Martin Hutchinson The often repeated refrain “we don’t want to be in another cold war” is nonsense – we are in one. And Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is a much more dangerous opponent than dozy old former head of state Leonid Brezhnev. However, the latest demonstration of this truth in Georgia is only [...]
Global Warming – Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park Originally uploaded by udbluehens “Since the early 1970′s, global warming has reduced Grinnell Glacier back to wall and is now replaced with a small lake. I actually walked out on the glacier, but today it would be a cold swim. Gem Glacier is high on the wall in the middle of the [...]
The Troubled Tourist
[From The American Prospect] Travel is so broadening. It shows you other nations’ narrow-mindedness, so that when you get home you can see your own more clearly. GERSHOM GORENBERG All year long I write about tribal conflicts. In August, when Israeli tribal customs dictate vacation, I want to get away not just from e-mail but [...]