From: The Charleston Gazette by Ken Ward Jr. The National Mining Association blasted EPA for “halting mining permits.” West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito warned the Obama administration about not to “block mining permits.” Coalfield environmentalists praised the federal government’s decision “to deny permits.” OK. OK. Calm down everybody. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (above, with [...]
Archive For March, 2009
HR 875 – The Death of Farmers Markets, CSAs and Local Food
From: The Nourished Kitchen HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa Delauro – a democratic party member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut – in February of 2009. The title of HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, sounds innocuous enough [...]
Vatican Expulsion Should Start Outcast Honor Roll
By Anne Eggebroten at WeNews A Brazilian archbishop’s decision to excommunicate the mother of a 9-year-old rape victim who had an abortion, as well as the girl’s doctor, outrages Anne Eggebroten. She says Catholic leaders need to revisit their own religious teachings. Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of [...]
McDonald’s 4 Year Old Cheeseburger Video
McDonald’s 4 Year Old Cheeseburger Video Tags: Cheeseburger, McDonald, Old <BR/>
Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
From: Yahoo! News By NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press Writer Play Video AP – Grassley: AIG execs should commit suicide IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley suggested that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves. The Republican lawmaker’s harsh comments [...]
Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel
Image via Wikipedia From: Scientific American Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways By Linda Baker Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners in Seoul tore down a six-lane highway a few years ago and replaced it with [...]
Downturn could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan
From: Times Online Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned. Speaking to The Times after a meeting of world leaders hosted by Gordon [...]
HUNGER Official Trailer 2008
Hunger, which takes an unflinching look at an IRA hunger strike, is the furthest thing from a date movie. If anything, this brutal, brilliant film — the first by a British director who just happens to share his name with a Hollywood icon — is trying to break your heart. Most of the action takes [...]
Ultimate In ‘Green’ Energy: Plants Inspire New Generation Of Solar Cells
Image via Wikipedia ScienceDaily (2009-03-03) — The ability of plants to turn sunlight into energy through photosynthesis has been successfully mimicked by scientists to produce a new generation of solar cells. The Southampton team led by Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis of the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, has developed a new range of photovoltaic devices [...]
New York eases 1970s drug laws
By Joan Gralla Image by Vincent J. Brown via Flickr NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state officials agreed on Friday to relax harsh 1970s drug laws that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in favor of laws that will let judges send addicts to treatment programs. The new regulations will save the state [...]