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Tuesday March 23, 2010 · 2:56 PM PDT

2010/03/23 · 14:56

The health care is better there.

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Saturday May 23, 2009 · 10:51 AM PDT

2009/05/23 · 10:51

A new study just released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicts that the Earth's median surface temperature could rise 9.3 degrees Fahrenheit (5.2 degrees Celsius) by 210o, about twice what was predicted just six years ago. The study cations that it will take "rapid and massive action" to prevent a rise this large.

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 5:45 PM PDT

2009/04/30 · 17:45

The earliest of the torture memos released by the Obama administration was one signed by Jay Bybee on Aug. 1,2002, responding to John Rizzo, acting General Counsel of the CIA, who inquired whether proposed interrogation techniques to be used on Abu Zubaydah would violate the prohibition on torture found at Section 2340 of title 18 of the United States Code.

Section 2340A makes it a criminal offense for any person "outside of the United States to commit or attempt to commit torture." Torture is defined as; "an act committed by a person under the cover of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody of physical control."

Bybee was clearly conflicted by the use of waterboarding, outright stating that "We find that the use of the waterboard a threat of imminent death," and yet he went on to justify its use.

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 3:04 PM PDT

2008/04/19 · 15:04

Reports of food shortages, food riots, and dwindling stockpiles have burst into the media in recent weeks, though warnings have been around for some time that diminishing farmland, climate change, and more recently the diversion of cropland to biofuels, would inevitably collide with growing populations, growing wealth, and the growth of grain intensive meat eating.

With consumption outstripping growth for six of the past seven years, grain stockpiles have fallen to their lowest levels since world wide record keeping began in 1960. In the United States, wheat stockpiles are at 60 year lows.

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Monday June 05, 2006 · 11:50 AM PDT

2006/06/05 · 11:50

After holding state-wide caucuses (not funded or operated by the state, in order to ensure accuracy), the Maryland Green Party has nominated Ed Boyd for governor.

Ed served his country in the U.S. Navy in the 1980s. After his service he did outreach work with homeless veterans with the Community for Creative Nonviolence in Washington, D.C. He is actively involved in the antiwar movement.

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 5:48 AM PST

2006/01/29 · 05:48

Back in 1980 Paul Ehrlich made a famous bet with Julian L. Simon. They bet $1,000 that five resources (of Ehrlich's choosing) would be more expensive in 10 years. Ehrlich lost: 10 years later every one of the resources had declined in price by an average of 40 percent.

The wager reached legendary proportions among conservative economists and pundits. Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute gloated that "Julian Simon's views on population and natural resources are so triumphant that they are almost mainstream. No one can rationally look at the evidence today and still claim, for example, that we are running out of food or energy."

But now it appears that Ehrlich was not wrong, only two decades too early. Since 2000, the price of energy and metal resources have been soaring. Prices for copper, iron ore, lead, crude oil, and uranium have more than doubled in five years. Others have shown significant gains as well. The markets are signalling that we are reaching the limits of growth. Read More

EPA WILL USE POOR KIDS AS GUINEA PIGS IN NEW STUDY ON PESTICIDES

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Thursday March 24, 2005 · 6:30 AM PST

2005/03/24 · 06:30

This one is just a little too outrageous. How much lower can the Bush administration sink?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Bush appointees, plans to launch a new study in which participating low income families will have their children exposed to toxic pesticides over the course of two years. For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. In October, the EPA received $2 million to do the study from the American Chemistry Council, a chemical industry front group that includes members such as Dow, Exxon, and Monsanto. The EPA's Linda Sheldon says the study is vital, because so little is known about how small children's bodies absorb harmful chemicals. As of press time, none of the EPA's employees are offering to have their own children take part in this research project.
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THE END IS NEAR, by Kurt Vonnegut

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 3:35 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 03:35

I am writing this before the election, so I cannot know whether George W. Bush or John F. Kerry will be our President, God willing, for the next four years. These two Nordic, aristocratic multi-millionaires are virtually twins, and as unlike most of the rest of us as a couple of cross-eyed albinos. But this much I find timely:
Both candidates were and still are members of the exclusive secret society at Yale, called "Skull and Bones."

That means that, no matter which one wins, we will have a Skull and Bones President at a time when entire vertebrate species, because of how we have poisoned the topsoil, the waters and the atmosphere, are becoming, hey presto, nothing but skulls and bones.

Poetry!

What was the beginning of this end? Some might say Adam and Eve and the apple of knowledge. I say it was Prometheus, a Titan, a son of gods, who in Greek myth stole fire from his parents and gave it to human beings. The gods were so mad they chained him naked to a rock with his back exposed, and had eagles eat his liver.
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October surprise comes early

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Wednesday July 28, 2004 · 2:01 PM PDT

2004/07/28 · 14:01

Oil futures prices reached record high levels following Russian government orders to stop oil sales and production at Yukos Oil's four main production units. The largest Russian oil exporting company said today that the new government orders forbids the sale of properties at its main production unit in Siberia, effectively banning oil sales and halting production. The reported output halt at Yukos Oil is likely to further increase the underlying supply concerns in the global oil markets. Moreover, Yukos Oil warned today regarding the stopping of shipments through rail transport by the second week of August this year, in the event of the government not allowing access to the company's frozen bank accounts. Oil prices briefly soared over $43 a barrel before settling back at the end of trading.

The oil market also has a Venezualan recall vote in August which could stir up the kind of unrest that shut down Venezualan oil production last year, as well as a threatened strike by oil workers in Nigeria. Record oil prices will be felt by the economy and by the consumer before the election rolls around.

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EPA WILL USE POOR KIDS AS GUINEA PIGS IN NEW STUDY ON PESTICIDES

THE END IS NEAR, by Kurt Vonnegut

October surprise comes early