Signs of Warming Continue in the Arctic
November 17, 2006 — By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated PressWASHINGTON — Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising...
View ArticleJudge won't halt AT&T wiretapping lawsuit..
By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.comSAN FRANCISCO--A federal district judge on Friday rejected the Bush administration's request to halt a lawsuit that alleges AT&T unlawfully cooperated with a broad...
View ArticleTapes Provide First Glimpse of Secret Gitmo Panels
Snip: "They relied instead on secret evidence that was classified," Denbeaux says. "And the government's procedure was, anything in that secret evidence was presumed to be valuable and valid. And then...
View ArticleFriday is Buy Nothing Day
No purchase necessary.THE ULTIMATE REFUND: On November 24th and 25th — the busiest days in the American retail calendar and the unofficial start of the international Christmas-shopping season —...
View ArticleHowling Like a Wild Wolf
Overcoming Fear and Undermining the Invaderby Rod CoronadoIt's hard to judge the radical environmental movement by the last 25 years, but if I had to, I'd say that I'm very disappointed. Twenty years...
View Article9/11: It's Time for America to Pick Up the Baton
I am done researching 9/11.Two years ago, several years of independent 9/11 investigation, research independent of any online umbrella group and independent of a Bush adminstration provided lead (that...
View ArticleThis blog is not dead!
It's just going through a transition period, a period of intense introspection and adjustment. New information has been made available to its author and, as such, there will be a period of digestion....
View ArticleSurveillance: It Affects Us All..
..and I don't need to explain that to any activist.FBI Activates Cell Phones Remotely for Wiretappingby Purav SanghaniThey can see us, read our emails, watch our IM conversations, and now even hear us...
View ArticleBy the Numbers: The Boreal Forest
Lloyd Alter writes: "The North American boreal forest stretches from Newfoundland to Alaska. In it: 5 million square kilometres. One quarter of the earth’s original forest. 80% of the world’s unfrozen...
View ArticleJudge Says Road Ban Applies to Oil and Gas Exploration in Forests
by Terence Chea (Associated Press)SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ruled that a Clinton-era ban on road construction in national forests applies to hundreds of oil and gas leases sold by the Bush...
View ArticleWorld Scientists' Warning To Humanity
Some 1,700 of the world's leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, issued this appeal in November 1992. The Warning was written and spearheaded by UCS Chair Henry...
View ArticleOn Global Warming: A Challenge to Skeptics
To deny that humans are affecting the warming of the planet and exacerbating it is to deny that either A) the gases released by human industry trap heat or that B) human industry emits such gases....
View ArticleKissinger to Serve As Papal Adviser?
I provide this article as a source for the essential information contained therein. I would be suspicious of the analysis of a Catholic publication, however, so caveat lector.Pope Benedict XVI has...
View ArticleBrad Will's Alleged Killers Released from Jail
by Sarah Ferguson December 1, 2006Protesting Friday in New York at the Mexican Mission to the U.N.The two Oaxacan town officials accused of gunning down Indymedia journalist Brad Will were released...
View ArticleIntellectual Property or Neurotic Greed?
The following is copied from the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:Stealing Fair Use, Selling It Back to You"Apparently, Hollywood believes that you should have to re-purchase all your DVD...
View ArticleFascism Defined
Fascism, in this day and age, seems a rather nebulous concept. I can't count how many times I have asked someone to define fascism only to draw a blank stare or an amibiguous collection of rants...
View ArticleCowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughter
BFC writes: "This is a terrific article that was printed in the Fall 2006 issue of the Western Watersheds Project's newsletter, 'Watersheds Messenger.' WWP's mission is to protect and restore western...
View ArticleSix Ways That Changing Your Life Can Prevent Global Warming
by Peter MichaelsonAll of the reasons for our failure to address global warming are known. But they are not known widely and deeply enough to send us rushing down the street on bicycles or even in...
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