The culture of violence.
úterý 15. září 2009
Student fatally stabbed at high school. Coral Gables by Miami, Florida. Shocking school violence. Children killers. Depraved wild capitalism morality.
středa 2. září 2009
California blaze grows to 140,000-plus acres.
A fierce fight was waged Tuesday to save a key communications complex and historic observatory atop Mount Wilson. The collection of towers is vital for government communications and nearly 50 radio and TV stations.
Fire retardant dropped from the air and firefighters clearing brush helped protect Mount Wilson, at least temporarily.
It is unclear what caused the Station fire, which charred an area that had not seen a major fire in more than 60 years.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday as a result of the Station Fire. He also proclaimed a state of emergency on Tuesday in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, where the Oak Glen Fire had scorched more than 1,000 acres. That fire was about 60 percent contained, fire officials said Tuesday.
The Pendleton Fire, also in San Bernardino, had burned nearly 900 acres by late Tuesday and was threatening 400 residences, according to fire officials. The blaze was 60 percent contained.
Schwarzenegger had declared states of emergency in Placer, Monterey and Mariposa counties because of fires.
pondělí 24. srpna 2009
We need a contemporary insurrection to reclaim our democracy, our freedom and our country.
We must challenge corporations and take back what is rightfully ours.
The second American Revolution. Let’s declare our independence from corporate rule!
Decades of deregulation and laissez-faire capitalist ideology have allowed corporations to steer the world's political, economic, environmental and cultural agendas.
A corporation is not a person.
It’s an organizational structure that has no morality and feels no remorse.
Yet the modern corporation enjoys the same rights as you or I: free speech, the ability to own property, the right to lobby government officials and protection against self-incrimination
sobota 22. srpna 2009
ALL Fish In Every 291 Tested US Stream Have Mercury In Them. Widespread mercury pollution. The main source is emissions from coal-fired power plants
From 1998 to 2005, scientists collected and tested more than a thousand fish from 291 streams nationwide. While all fish had traces of mercury contamination, only about a quarter had levels exceeding what the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe for people eating average amounts of fish.
Mercury can damage the nervous system and cause learning disabilities in developing fetuses and young children.
The main source of mercury to most of the streams tested, according to the researchers, is emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The mercury released from smokestacks rains down into waterways, where natural processes convert it into methylmercury -- a form that allows the toxin to wind its way up the food chain into fish.
At about 59 of the streams, mostly in the West, mining could be contributing to the mercury levels, the researchers said.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration said it would begin crafting a new regulations to control mercury emissions from power plants after a federal appeals court threw out plans drafted by the Bush administration and favored by industry.
The Bush rule would have allowed power plants to buy and sell pollution credits, instead of requiring each plant to install equipment to reduce mercury pollution.
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