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Downturn could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan
2009-03-15 03:12:00 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 ... More About: News , Children , World Bank , Rights , Poverty
HUNGER Official Trailer 2008
2009-03-13 14:45:00 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 place ... More About: Hunger , Trailer , Rights , Violence , Official
Ultimate In ?Green? Energy: Plants Inspire New Generation Of Solar Cells
2009-03-12 02:49:00 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 that use ... More About: Commentary , Plants , Energy , Solar , Green
Court keeps homeless man off Ill. village ballot
2009-03-11 15:43:00 From: Kansas City Star By DEANNA BELLANDI Associated Press Writer Daniel Fore, a homeless man and his attorney, Joseph Jacobi, right, speak at a news conference after a Cook County judge ruled that Fore could not run for a suburban village board seat because he doesn’t have an address Monday, March 9, 2009, in Chicago. The ruling ... More About: Homeless , Village , Court , Ballot
Israel annexing East Jerusalem, says EU
2009-03-08 15:33:00 Israel annexing East Jerusalem , says EU | World news | The Guardian 40-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud al-Abbasi stands amid the rubble of his home after it was demolished by the Jerusalem municipality in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Photograph: Gali Tibbon A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing ... More About: News , Middle East , Israel , Rights
Paterson?s Shift on Power Plant Emissions Angers Environmentalists - NYTime
2009-03-06 16:43:00 Paterson?s Shift on Power Plant Emissions Angers Environment alists - NYTimes.com By DANNY HAKIM Published: March 5, 2009 ALBANY ? At the urging of the energy industry, Gov. David A. Paterson has agreed to reconsider a key rule New York adopted as part of a 10-state pact aimed at reducing the threat of global warming by cutting ... More About: News
EFF Releases How-To Guide to Fight Government Spying
2009-03-04 20:17:00 Image via Wikipedia ‘Surveillance Self-Defense’ Gives Practical Advice on Protecting Your Private Data San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched its Surveillance Self-Defense project today — an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. You can find the project at ssd.eff.org. EFF created the Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate Americans about the ... More About: Commentary , Government , Fight , Guide , Spying
U.S. becomes top wind producer, solar next
2009-03-03 23:54:00 [From Scientific American] LONDON (Reuters) - The United States overtook Germany as the biggest producer of wind power last year, new figures showed, and will likely take the lead in solar power this year, analysts said on Monday. Even before an expected “Obama bounce” from a new President who has vowed to boost clean energy, U.S. wind ... More About: Solar , Wind , Producer
Majority of world population face water shortages unless action taken, warn
2009-03-03 17:43:00 Migiro and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete Image via Wikipedia Two-thirds of the world?s population will face a lack of water in less than 20 years, if current trends in climate change, population growth, rural to urban migration and consumption continue, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro warned today. Speaking at a high-level symposium on water security at UN ... More About: Commentary , Environment , World , Africa , Action
The two-minute plan for feeling better
2009-03-02 17:30:00 (Via Very Short List Twenty years ago, University of Texas psychologist James Pennebaker concluded that students who wrote about their most meaningful personal experiences for 15 minutes a day several days in a row felt better, had healthier blood work, and got higher grades in school. But a new study from the University of Missouri ... More About: Writing , Student , Plan , Minute , Feeling
Scientists to stop global warming with 100,000 square mile sun shade
2009-02-28 00:54:00 [I could not think of a comment. -RS] Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun’s rays forming a 100,000 square mile “sun shade”. According to astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, the trillions of mirrors would have to be fired one million miles ... More About: Global Warming , Environment , Global , Stop , Mile
Pentagon to Allow Photos of Soldiers? Coffins
2009-02-27 17:06:00 [From NY Times] By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON — In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, but only ... More About: Photos , Rights , Violence , Pentagon , Soldiers
Firms defraud government but get new US contracts
2009-02-27 14:42:00 [From AP via Yahoo] By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ? Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report. Payments went to a company whose president tried to sell nuclear bomb parts to North Korea, a company that ... More About: Government , Contracts , Firms
Senate votes to give DC citizens vote in Congress
2009-02-27 06:03:00 [From AP] By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer AP ? Senate approves DC voting bill WASHINGTON(AP ? The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation’s capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday. Congress is “moving to right a centuries-old wrong,” said Senate Majority Leader ... More About: News , United States , Vote
How Perverse Incentives Drive Bad Security Decisions
2009-02-26 19:08:00 How Perverse Incentives Drive Bad Security Decisions, from WIRED ... More About: Commentary , Rights
Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution
2009-02-26 18:30:00 Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution , from Wired.com By Kevin Poulsen She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in ...
Health care bills suffer conspiracy of silence
2009-02-23 06:11:00 Saul Friedman, Gray Matters Too often journalism ignores or belittles reports or proposals as outside the mainstream and bound to fail, thus assuring they will remain outside the mainstream and fail. That, I believe, is what has been happening to proposals by three Democratic members of the House of Representatives to provide health care for ... More About: Health , Commentary , Health Care , Rights , Care
Health care bills suffer conspiracy of silence
2009-02-23 06:11:00 Saul Friedman, Gray Matters Too often journalism ignores or belittles reports or proposals as outside the mainstream and bound to fail, thus assuring they will remain outside the mainstream and fail. That, I believe, is what has been happening to proposals by three Democratic members of the House of Representatives to provide health care for ... More About: Health , Commentary , Health Care , Rights , Care
?Milk? screenwriter Dustin Lance Black wins Oscar
2009-02-23 05:19:00 By Amanda Terkel, from Think Progress At tonight?s Academy Awards, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for ?Milk ,? the story of California?s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. Black ? who was wearing a White Knot for marriage equality ? spoke about how Milk inspired him: BLACK: When I was 13 years ... More About: Commentary , Rights
?Milk? screenwriter Dustin Lance Black wins Oscar
2009-02-23 05:19:00 By Amanda Terkel, from Think Progress At tonight?s Academy Awards, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for ?Milk ,? the story of California?s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. Black ? who was wearing a White Knot for marriage equality ? spoke about how Milk inspired him: BLACK: When I was 13 years ... More About: Commentary , Rights
Obama victory bash owes city $1.74 mil.
2009-02-21 06:16:00 PARTY IN THE PARK | Waiting for Dems to pay up February 20, 2009 BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com More About: Victory , Obama , Bash
Obama victory bash owes city $1.74 mil.
2009-02-21 06:16:00 PARTY IN THE PARK | Waiting for Dems to pay up February 20, 2009 BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com More About: Victory , Obama , Bash
GOP Rep. Cao Faces Recall Petition For Voting Against Stimulus
2009-02-21 06:07:00 From: Huffington Post Bayou Buzz reports that Rep. Joseph Cao, the Republican who replaced scandalized Democrat William Jefferson, now faces a recall petition over his stimulus opposition by a group of ministers. Cao had indicated that he would be voting in favor of the controversial legislation but instead voted against it. Papers have been filed with the ... More About: Faces , Recall , Petition , Voting
GOP Rep. Cao Faces Recall Petition For Voting Against Stimulus
2009-02-21 06:07:00 From: Huffington Post Bayou Buzz reports that Rep. Joseph Cao, the Republican who replaced scandalized Democrat William Jefferson, now faces a recall petition over his stimulus opposition by a group of ministers. Cao had indicated that he would be voting in favor of the controversial legislation but instead voted against it. Papers have been filed with the ... More About: Faces , Recall , Petition , Voting
White recession, Black depression: Let?s make racial inequality a piece of
2009-02-19 22:13:00 [From San Francisco Bay View] by Dedrick Muhammad and Michael Brown Nearly half of all Black children live beneath the poverty line ? a figure almost identical to that which existed on the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, and four times the average for western European countries. During this Black History Month, the nation and the world ... More About: United States , Commentary , Depression , White
White recession, Black depression: Let?s make racial inequality a piece of
2009-02-19 22:13:00 [From San Francisco Bay View] by Dedrick Muhammad and Michael Brown Nearly half of all Black children live beneath the poverty line ? a figure almost identical to that which existed on the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, and four times the average for western European countries. During this Black History Month, the nation and the world ... More About: United States , Commentary , Depression , White
?Food Inc.? movie trailer
2009-02-15 06:17:00 From Spout.com via: www.HOMEGROWN.org How much do we really know* about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In FOOD, INC., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation?s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that?s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of ... More About: Movie , Environment , Food , Trailer
?Food Inc.? movie trailer
More articles from this author:2009-02-15 06:17:00 From Spout.com via: www.HOMEGROWN.org How much do we really know* about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In FOOD, INC., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation?s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that?s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of ... More About: Movie , Environment , Food , Trailer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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