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Entries from September 2007

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine

Thursday, 27, September, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been devouring everything I can on this subject, and I’m surprised that the basic theorem still seems to elude most Americans, including the main stream media, though it would, on second thought, not be in their interest to acknowledge the very real things Naomi Klein documents, which would effectively rewrite the last thirty to […]

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Tags: Politics

Kucinich responds to Neo-Con smear attack

Sunday, 16, September, 2007 · No Comments

Help Answer Neo Con’s Smear Attack on Kucinich
Dear Joie Ankney,
Nearly two weeks ago, I went to the Middle East on a peace mission, accompanied by my wife Elizabeth. Today I am being attacked as a traitor and vilified for reaching out to people of the region, hearing their concerns and discussing those concerns openly […]

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Tags: Politics

Expensive and divisive: How America is losing patience with a failing system

Thursday, 13, September, 2007 · No Comments

Good piece, but she’s wrong about John Edwards having been the first Democrat to come forth with their own scheme for an American version of Universal Healthcare-it was Dennis Kucinich who presented HR-676 The Conyers-Kucinich bill for Universal Healthcare. Unlike Kucinich, the bill has grown with support from over seventy co-sponsors. At the recent Northwest […]

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Tags: Health

Doctor Who Series 5 and specials confirmed!

Wednesday, 5, September, 2007 · No Comments

It was yet another midnight press release for Doctor Who fans in the UK, as confirmation from on high at the BBC came that the series is to be briefly rested and then return in all it’s glory. Ian Levine has been acting like a right pork chop on Outpost Gallifrey with boisterous declarations […]

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Bird by Bird, The Avian Population is Shrinking

Sunday, 2, September, 2007 · No Comments

From Persistence of Vision, original article here
Some scant forty plus years since the publication of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s warnings of vanishing bird populations are seemingly becoming manifest. Having kept two crickets in a cup on my desk until I could release them into the wilds outside the office this evening, thus preventing them […]

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Tags: Environment