Pro-Global Warming Concern or Pro-Gore Promo?

How does picking at the President advance doing something about global warming? Would any of the GOP alternatives do anything different or better? So what is this about? A promo for Al Gore? "I feel ignored and I used to be important and wanna be a big guy again?"



"I am the most progressive and my organization is better than your organization?"



So, Al, when is the last time you and the President talked or played golf?

Amplify’d from www.bizjournals.com

Gore grills Obama on global warming

Gore argues that Obama has made little progress

Gore also knocks the media, which he accuses of being too distracted by personalities like Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen. Read more at www.bizjournals.com

 

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He was ill; he is in rehab; he is famous = No responsibility?

I am sorry that this guy was addicted to drugs and drink but does that excuse whatever he does, as long as he says: I am sorry and goes into rehab. Would anyone care much, if he were a day laborer accused of the same behavior? The bankers and heads of Wall street firms who ruined much of the world's economies... how many of them are in jail?



Mostly, I am just tired of rich and/or famous racists and sex criminals getting by with fewer penalties that poor and unknown racists and sex criminals. End of rant.

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Did you launch a racist, antisemitic rant? I can't remember, Galliano tells French court

The British designer John Galliano told a Paris court he remembered nothing of an alleged antisemitic, racist rant in a bar because of his triple addiction to alcohol, valium and sleeping pills.

He went into rehab at the end of February after he was arrested by police following the alleged bar altercation. He said his reasons for rehab were various: "I started having panic attacks, I couldn't go to work unless I had taken some valium." Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Feeding the Fear - Keeps You and "them" Down!

Why do wannabe and hanging-on politicians feed fear and hate of people defined as "different?" To keep people from figuring out they are getting taken for a ride by the fear-frenzy profiteers. You don't notice that hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs have been moved to China to boost the income of a few thousand of America's richest, if you are convinced that it's Mexicans, or Hispanics, or illegals taking your jobs?



Before we bailed out GM last year, they built 19 plants in China over the previous 5-10 years. Never noticed that Mexicans were not the ones who took your factory jobs away? That is exactly what the fear mongering is designed to do - keep you from paying attention to what is really hurting your present and future.

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Roberto Rodriguez: John McCain's wildfire accusations

The Arizona senator accuses Mexican immigrants of starting wildfires, but he is fanning the flames himself – of prejudice

Last year, McCain claimed that "illegal aliens" were intentionally causing accidents on freeways.

Per the FBI, we know that the border region is safer than it was a decade ago, and that many of the safest US cities are along the US-Mexico border. But when it comes to fueling xenophobia in this country, facts never get in the way. Read more at bsnorrell.blogspot.com

 

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Ned's Shared Items - FYI

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/15351457303448151229

Just in case anyone is curious. I share tons of stuff everyday but do not post most of it here at Amplify because it just takes too long. I use the sharing option of Google's Reader. So, if you want to see all the wonderful things I read with a few comments here and there - take a look and bookmark if you wish

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When Targeted Assassinations Go Bad - way too often - why?

Bad intelligence, killing the wrong person - oops! Why to snipers, drones and bombs often hit the wrong target?



Because someone is just getting even, trying to make money, or settling some sort of "score" that has nothing to do with wining any war.



You'd think in a day of 24/7 news coverage and cell phone news stations that folks would figure out that to "win" the long war - oops killings can hurt you as much or more than ones that might be justified in some way.



Learn it now - will ya!?

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Critique of targeted killings in Afghanistan

Zabet Amanullah, killed in error by US forces

Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network has written an excellent analysis of the alleged killing by Coalition forces of the Taliban deputy shadow governor of Takhar in September 2010. She claims, with plenty of evidence, that the person killed - along with nine other people - was in fact Zabet Amanullah, a former Taliban fighter who had laid down his weapons in 2001. Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

 

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Good work for earth - 600 Dutch give fine start!

Good friend helped pull off a grand planning and doing project to get many on board to saving the planet! Take a look and pass along, if you agree.

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Tick tick tick... time is ticking!

The Economy Transformers unite a diverse group of people who are anxious to contribute to the economic and societal transition needed for a future that serves and dignifies all life on our planet.

Community for (re)building an economy and society that serves people and nature

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Can we end the war and the pain - PLEASE!

She says all that needs to be said in her poem.

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Sack of Winds

When God created me he put a world in my heart +++a world of grief +++a country of blank deserts +++a sky full of clouds with a dead Sun and crazy winds He put all my desires in a sack of winds +++told me go +++and find it It is years and years I run after the wind +++to find my desires +++my smiled lips +++my sentenced hopes I run after the winds in the blank deserts find nothing but dead wishes and dead wishes By Norwan Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Maybe this sounds dumb but... The Taliban are Afghans - right? So where do they go, if they lose or they decide for peace? Do they just go home and don't fight anymore? If you were a Taliban fighter or supporter, what would you do? http://amplify.com/u/a14k3b

Superbug in your dairy? Thank Industrialized farming...

The wise opossum philosopher, Pogo, says - "We have me the enemy and he is us!" Keep cattle, poultry "healthy" under overpopulated and crowded conditions - easy hit them with anti-bacterial drugs in excessive amounts - yeah. Huh, you mean that we got drug resistant bacteria that eats people up as a result? Oops!

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More MRSA, in milk: A new strain in cows and humans

Researchers in England and Denmark have announced they have found a never-before recorded variant of MRSA in cow’s milk in England that has already caused human infections in England, Scotland and Denmark, and researchers in Ireland have simultaneously announced that they have found the same strain in hospitalized patients there as well. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Florida Drug Testing

Drug tests in Florida proposed by Governor Scott for all state legislators, state employees, public and charter school students and employees, businesses doing business with the State of Florida, businesses getting tax breaks fro Florida, any senior citizens receiving any sort of aid, discounts or assistance. The Governor has exempted himself. Actually he has already ordered random testing of all state employees. Rumor has it that he owns shares in drug testing firms. $42 a test.

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An Afghan Poet's View of Osama bin Laden's Coming and Going

Evil has gone, embrace the light - she says - she has a point. Will you hold on to fear of the dark or welcome the return of light and work to make it stay?

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A Monster’s Tale

It was a timeless autumn, the day the sky darkened.

Soon, the people learned a monster had come to occupy the land!

Children forgot to smile. But violence cannot stay forever: The monster left the land and died. Clouds scattered. The people could see the sun shining again. Sky becomes blue, land gets green. By Farida Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Dead Gulf Dolphin - No rug? Dump it Behind Bush!

Eyes not on BP oil spill any longer - no reporting so it must be OK - all gone - poof like magic! Or pick up dead and dump them where they cannot be seen cause who is looking anyway? Good thing Laurel is. Wonder how many she has not seen?

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A Stroll on a Gulf Beach Yields a Dolphin Disposal

Laurel Lockamy has seen her share of dead sea life washing up on the beaches of Mississippi.

Off in the distance she saw

another dead dolphin

A tag was stuck in its mouth with the date: May 13, 2011. That was two days earlier.

The next day

Laurel watched in amazement as the front loader turned and dumped its load behind some beach vegetation. Poof it was gone!

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Getting Real About bin Laden Hiding in Plain Sight

How could they not have known? always "sounds" good after the crime but what's the real record about various authorities "knowing" where the criminal is or was, or even who it is.



Consider these criminals and who should have known what?

Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, the Unabomber a mail bombing spree that spanned nearly 20 years!



The Green River Killer - Gary Leon Ridgway murdered numerous women in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s.



David Parker Ray - the "toy box" killer tortured and killed his victims in New Mexico; 1950s-1999.



The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970's. The San Francisco Police Department marked the case "inactive", yet re-opened the case at some point prior to March 2007. No one caught.



Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.



Serial murderers and serial-murdering terrorists, often, it seems hide in plain sight, since no one expects a serial killer to live next door or to look like everyone else.



But reporters and politicians will continue saying some one should have known - someone should have been able to find them or - even better - should have known that they were going to do something horrible.



Osama bin Laden was found, is dead, and can kill no more.



Beating ourselves and allies up over how long it took to stop him does little good, as far as I can see.

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Did Pakistan know bin Laden was ‘hiding in plain sight’?

David Ignatius Opinion Writer

The “Where’s Waldo?” aspect of the hunt for bin Laden — who turns out to have been living since 2005 just a few hours’ drive north of Islamabad — has worsened the mistrust between America and Pakistan. Pakistani anger over the unilateral U.S. attack is indicated by the fact that someone just “outed” the CIA station chief in Islamabad for the second time in a year. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com

 

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Bedbugs, Superbugs, Oh My! For Real!

Bedbugs just want blood and will move into any neighborhood to get it. Be careful!

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Drug-resistant bacteria in bedbugs

Maryn McKenna

Researchers in Vancouver, BC have found bedbugs there carrying drug-resistant staph, MRSA, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, VRE.

Bugs that came from two of the men were carrying VRE

Bedbugs from the third man were carrying the classic community-associated strain of MRSA

Is it significant?

And therefore, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go check my hotel mattress. Just in case. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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One Afghan Lament on Sorrow

You wish you could take someone's sorrow away but in sharing it, perhaps you help the healing process. Catch a sweet dream!

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How Can I Hide My Sorrow?

I am an Afghan girl, tears in my eyes, pen in hand, writhing from my heart.

That heart, full of sorrow,| Pain, grief, sores. How can I hide my sorrow?

No one understands me or feels my sadness. No one smooths ointment on my wounds.

How can I hide the sorrow that fills me, when my heart is Exploding +++Exploding ++++++Exploding

By Farahnaz Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Sen. Brown: Job over health?

Senator Brown says he is for keeping children safe and says he if for jobs. So he votes against EPA updating clean air standards. So if people are too ill to work in factories spewing air pollution that makes them too ill to got to work - hmmm.

If worker cannot go to work 10 days a year because she has to take her children to the doctor because of ill effect of pollution... Hmmm. Ya think that Brown has thought his position through?

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Scott Brown Plays the Victim

ads and a website blasting one Republican and one Democratic Senator each for voting to block the EPA from updating clean air safeguards

Scott Brown

“As a father, I would never do anything to put my two daughters or anyone else's children in harms [sic] way.” And that one of his most “solemn responsibilities” is to “protect children.”

According to the nurses’ report, over 130,000 Massachusetts kids have asthma and over 13,000 emergency room visits are needed yearly to treat kids struggling to breathe. Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org

 

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Lots of "talk" about what Pakistan "should/had to" have known - through rear-view mirror. Could be true but... Didn't Unabomber hide in plain sight for a number of years? Years gone by - shouldn't have authorities known for years where John Dillinger was, or Jesse James, or any number of horrible people it took years to find? Years ago, the Mafia "accountant and pay master for Washington, DC was on the same floor in an office building also used by the FBI for training. Hiding in plain sight doesn't mean conspiracy "had" to exist. http://amplify.com/u/a11eup

Video: World’s Biggest Gathering of Whal

Video: World’s Biggest Gathering of Whale Sharks | Wired Science | Wired.com

Whale Sharks Galore! Cool!

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Sec. Clinton on bin Ladin's Demise

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Remarks on the Killing of Usama bin Ladin

Hillary Rodham Clinton

All over the world we will press forward, bolstering our partnerships, strengthening our networks, investing in a positive vision of peace and progress, and relentlessly pursuing the murderers who target innocent people. The fight continues, and we will never waver. Now I know there are some who doubted this day would ever come, who questioned our resolve and our reach. But let us remind ourselves, this is America. We rise to the challenge, we persevere, and we get the job done. Read more at www.state.gov

 

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EU Anti-Roma Violence Flares Anew

You'd think that right wingers would find new victims for focusing their fear based violence but Roma, Jews, Muslims and Gays still have to watch their backs because no one else will - or so it seems. Before we humans destroy the planet, you think we will ever stop looking for someone to blame all our fears and self-hate on?

Amplify’d from www.spiegel.de

Right-Wing Militants on Patrol

A New Wave of Anti-Roma Violence in Hungary

The Hungarian village of Gyöngyöspata has once again become home to violence between right-wing radicals and its Roma populace. Dozens of extremists marched into the town on Wednesday, one day after provoking brawls with the Roma who live there. It is the continuation of a trend. Read more at www.spiegel.de

 

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Genetic Modification Meltdown in nuts!

Forget that pistachios are not native to Australia. The lesson is - you plant genetically uniform (aka GMO or monopoly Monsanto seeds) plants, you risk huge, massive, really big crop failure. 50% down and half of those inedible - those are big numbers.



What would the result be if 50-75% of the world's alfalfa, wheat, rice, or oat crop failed in one season? Can you imagine at least 1 billion dying of hunger and another billion or so from war, revolution, and genocide?



OK, OK. I know. You want to go back to watching your reruns of Seinfeld.

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Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at Agricultural Breakdown

The culprit was anthracnose, a fungal disease best known for infecting mangoes. It raced through the industry, resulting in a harvest some 50 percent smaller than expected — and half of that was inedible.

“The wide cultivation of genetically uniform plant populations fosters rapid evolution among the pathogens,” said Scot Nelson, a plant pathologist at the University of Hawaii. “Because of this greed, new pathogens or newly reported host-pathogen combinations arise almost daily around the world.” Read more at www.wired.com

 

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S&P Expert? At what? Covering their...?

September 8, 2008 S&P said they were thinking about dropping Lehman Brother's from A1 rating to A. Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008. So we should trust their judgment, as much as we trust all the other high fliers of Wall Street? How many people are still out of work from the burst housing bubble that they rode as well as any did? How much money have they returned to anyone for mistakes made? Weren't they co-conspirators to the biggest fraud in last 50 years?

Amplify’d from www.latimes.com

Thank you, Standard & Poor's

Michael Kinsley

Standard & Poor's may know nothing that I couldn't find out, but it certainly knows more than I've bothered to find out. (And how about you?) And how its experts assess all this publicly available information is surely worth knowing, isn't it? Read more at www.latimes.com

 

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In my "state" "birthers" are aliens

In my state of mind, the birthers now led by wanna-be-still-famous Trump seem to be from some alien place where logic is absent and denial has replaced reality - all perfect for a new Donald show! But read this article if you need further proof.

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

The birthers' constitutional illiteracy

For the birthers, the translation of "natural born citizen'" is simply "those born inside the United States". To them, anyone born outside the United States is ineligible for the presidency. They are wrong.

The Naturalisation Act of 1790 provided that "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens." Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Nuclear waste: Keep out – for 100,000 ye

Nuclear waste: Keep out – for 100,000 years | Art and design | The Guardian

So... what kind of sign would you put up to warn people not to enter? "For Sale by Owner who thought nuclear power was safe - reduced price!"

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TB - Still World Threat!

Lancet Study: TB Screening

The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 2 billion people – nearly 1 in 3 – are infected with the TB bacilli, and of those, 1 in 10 will develop active TB during his or her lifetime.

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Equal pay, respect, promotion - now!

Always the same - she works hard for the money but get the respect, pay, honor and ... that she deserves? Not yet - why not?

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Statists Posing as Conservatives?

According to a new law in Michigan, the Governor and the State Treasurer can declare any unit of local government in financial emergency, take it over and then disband it. Local voters, democracy, forget it! Government at whim of Governor and State Treasurer. Benton Harbor, Michigan: "A state-appointed emergency financial manager has suspended the decision-making powers of Benton Harbor officials in a move that's likely the first act of its kind under a new state law." http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20110416/NEWS05/110416011/Emergency-chief-takes-action-against-Benton-Harbor

Amplify’d from michiganmessenger.com

First suit filed over Emergency Manager law

The city’s two pension funds sued Gov. Rick Snyder and state Treasurer Andy Dillon in federal court today to block part of a new emergency manager statute. Read more at michiganmessenger.com

 

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Big Macs, Deforestation, and Slavery?

In Brazil the Big Mac attack and the Crave bring on deforestation and slave labor - are you loving it - getting outside the bun - and oops killing the planet and the Amazon?

Amplify’d from www.greenpeace.org

Deforestation and slave labour still linked to Brazilian cattle industry

14 slaughterhouses in the Brazilian state of Acre. These slaughterhouses are being sued by the public prosecutor for buying cattle from farms who have been fined by the Brazilian Environmental Police for illegal deforestation, and from farmers who are accused of using slave labour. One of the slaughterhouses being sued is JBS – the largest exporter of meat products in the world. Read more at www.greenpeace.org

 

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25% chance your meat will make you sick!

One in four samples bought in supermarkets contained meat with bacteria resistant to at least three drugs against staph infections. If you gotta eat meat - eat organic or cook it until it resembles cardboard...

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Multi-Drug Resistant Staph in 1 in 4 Meat Samples

A team of researchers from Arizona bought meat and poultry in five cities across the United States

52 percent of those staph isolates were resistant to at least three antibiotics that are commonly used in both veterinary and human medicine.

That is: Roughly one in four packages of meat and poultry from across the United States contained multidrug resistant staph. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Mimi - Unplugged 'bout birthers - oh my!

Funny as always; good for Friday on a week that has fried more than one of us!

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Mimi In A Minute #28 ~ Snooki Birthers and other Mysteries

I have a few things to say. This is Mimi unplugged. Hide your children.

To Elizabeth Taylor:

Thank you for your glamorous and giving ways.

To all the Birthers out there:

I want to see the Ten Commandments written on the original stone tablets too. In triplicate signed by God. Fat chance on both counts.

If Donald Trump had Sarah Palin's hair, I would vote for him. That is my deep political opinion on the matter. Read more at mimiwrites.blogspot.com

 

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BP, DC - Can You Hear Me Now?

Shouldn't have to walk 1,200 miles to get someone to not take their eye off the Gulf and what BP has done to it but in a world of short attention spans and lying oil companies - that is exactly what this woman had to do!

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A Year after the Gulf Oil Disaster, a Mom Walks to DC to Fight for Health

On a picture perfect spring day, Cherri Foytlin and an entourage of friends and associates from the Gulf marched across the Memorial Bridge into Washington, completing a 1200 mile journey to raise awareness about the health impacts of the BP oil disaster.

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How was your DC fieldtrip?

Nice gift to these students. President Obama drops in and stays to talk!

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Surprise! It's the President

When eighth graders from Longmont, Colorado's Altona Middle School left for the East Coast, they knew they'd be coming to see the White House and some of D.C.'s famous monuments. Little did they know they'd also get the chance to not just see, but meet, President Barack Obama himself.

one of the students had written President Obama as he was negotiating a budget with Congressional leadership, telling him how much her son and his classmates were looking forward to visiting Washington. The President mentioned that letter in his remarks after reaching an agreement late Friday night, and decided to say hello while they were in town.

The mother of one of the students had written President Obama as he was negotiating a budget with Congressional leadership, telling him how much her son and his classmates were looking forward to visiting Washington. The President mentioned that letter in his remarks after reaching an agreement late Friday night, and decided to say hello while they were in town. Read more at www.whitehouse.gov

 

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Unemployed, forgotten - still standing

Too common an experience due to HR folks and others who just do not have a clue what the marketplace is really like. I can attest to the truth of the reactions she got, since I got the same ones. Eighteen years as a professional business editor and writer and three books published were worthless, once you had not been hired doing exactly the same thing within 6 months.

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Unemployed? Don't Apply.

Kelly Wiedemer lost her job in the financial sector at the start of the recession almost three years ago. She says the problem now is that she has been out of work for so long, many employers won’t even give her resume a second look. Kelly says the one thing that has changed is that she’s become a lot more politically involved - she’s started writing and she’s determined to speak up on behalf of people who are being ignored because they’ve been out of work. Music: Flint, Sufjan Stevens Read more at thestory.org

 

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Evolution of Reading in one picture

Nothing more to be said: Youngest is reading her Smart Phone, 30-something is reading a magazine, and senior is reading Financial Times?

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Regular readers will know I'm always keen to see what people are reading on the London Underground, as it's usually a good indicator of trends in popular fiction, non fiction and now reading devices. Last week the trio opposite me looked very much like an advertisement for how people read Read more at london-underground.blogspot.com

 

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Ultimate hubris: Cloning nature

Leaves me almost speechless. Redwoods and their forest are almost magical - quite inspiring. How did they become so strong and lost lasting? Did they clone each other in a lab and plant millions of just-like-me trees? Silly question? Why did the "scientist" in this story ask it of himself? Because, like many science mechanics, he thinks/believes/self-deludes that he and his cohorts are above nature and can manufacture nature.



Natural selection is as much about natural diversity and errors, as it is about survival and adaptation. Until we understand that, we will not leave forests to themselves and just cordon them off from our interference.

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From Ancient Giants, Finding New Life to Help the Planet

It is just those sprouts that lie at the heart of a plan hatched by a group of tree enthusiasts to clone — and then mass-produce — a collection of colossal redwoods, some of which date to before the birth of Jesus and can soar nearly 40 stories, the tallest living things on earth.

“We want to get the biggest, best genetic representations of the species,” said David Milarch, the co-founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. “And make millions and millions and millions of them.” Read more at www.nytimes.com

 

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Pesticides? What is on my food?

http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/

Database and widget for figuring out what pesticides are on your food. Don't wanna know? Then don't look - but now you know where it is if you change your mind - grin

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To Rep. Paul Ryan Lying's Second Nature

Do these guys who lie for a living think no one will ever check on what they have said. Do they think that even their supporters will just accept the lies as a way of doing business? Makes you wonder what else he is lying about.

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Alice Rivlin Does Not Support Ryan’s Plan to Bury Medicare

Yesterday, on “CNBC’s Morning Joe,” Paul Ryan claimed Alice Rivlin, Clinton’s OMB director, as an ally: “Alice Rivlin and I designed these Medicare and Medicaid reforms”

Rivlin revealed

“We talked fairly recently and I said, ‘You know, I can’t support the version that you have in the budget,” Read more at www.healthbeatblog.com

 

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Fear + Hate = A Death Too Ugly

What can one say, when an activist for peace is killed? We will go on till peace covers the land with flowers instead of blood.

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Israeli peace activist Juliano Mer Khamis shot dead in Jenin

Witnesses say actor – who ran a drama project in a Palestinian refugee camp – was shot five times by masked men

Kadura Musa, governor of Jenin, said: "He was a Palestinian citizen of Israeli origin. An actor and an artist but most of all a true human being. We don't know why this happened, but all the people of the camp condemn the death of this son of ours whose mother also did so much for the people of Jenin." Alaa Eddin Saadi lives next to the theatre, and said that Mer Khamis was shot while in a car also carrying his one-year old son and his nanny, who was wounded in the hand. "I don't think he was killed because he was Jewish. Some people were angry with the liberal values he was promoting at the theatre, but to me he was a very nice guy who worked hard for the people here." Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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