From: PETA Millions of individual animals, including more than 2 million cats and hundreds of thousands of dogs, will be skinned for their fur in China this year alone. For a few of these animals, death will come swiftly from a knife slash across the throat. For many others, their fate is to be skinned [...]
Archive For April, 2010
Reverend Billy Talen: Prophesy, Arrest, and New Baby
[From On the Wilder Side] Reverend Billy Talen is an activist and performance artist who ran for Mayor of New York City on the Green Party line in 2009. You can find updates on Reverend Billy’s actions at his main web-site: here. Here is what happened to Reverend Billy last week: The Huffington Post reports [...]
Gringo Guns
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Footprints for Peace Walk in PA, NJ, NY
Join Footprints for Peace this April at Three Mile Island, Limerick, Fort Lee, NJ or the George Washington Bridge! Footprints for Peace is a walk for a nuclear-free future that began in February in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and will arrive at the nuclear non-proliferation meetings at the United Nations in New York on May 1. [...]
FCC loses key ruling on Internet ‘neutrality’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court threw the future of Internet regulations and U.S. broadband expansion plans into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment [...]
Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island
[From Los Angeles Times] First, before you watch this short but remarkable video, a little background on Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson. He’s from Georgia’s Fourth District. A Washington, D.C. native, he’s the fellow who took office in 2007 after knocking off former five-term Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney. A former county judge, the 55-year-old is an [...]
Jamie Oliver shows kids what’s in a chicken nugget
… and the results are horrifying. [My suggestion is to avoid McDonalds altogether, and yes, their french fries are not vegetarian, but the point of this is we are trained early to be attracted to the package, not the content, when it comes to food.- RS] From: I’ll be the first to admit that I [...]