http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/523622658?z00m=19118828 Stop the #1 Killer of African Children Sponsored by: William J. Clinton Foundation Malaria is the single greatest killer of children in Africa. And even though this disease is completely curable, one to three million children will still die, because for many families in developing countries, effective treatments and preventative bed nets are too [...]
Archive for January 2009
Stop the #1 Killer of African Children
January 29, 2009Support the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
January 29, 2009https://secure2.convio.net/nwlc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=283 Support the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Women are more likely to work in low-wage jobs that don’t provide health care. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been designed to provide health care for children living in families stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place: earning too much for Medicaid, but too little [...]
Vatican ties with Israel broken
January 28, 2009This came from one of my Catholic Email groups. I thought you all would be interested. I am not surprised, because he reinstated a White Nationalist Bishop who has so far shown that he has not changed his views and repented of his views that seem so different than Jesus’s views. The first time I [...]
Coal Wins Big in Senate Stimulus Package
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by The Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) Coal Wins Big in Senate Stimulus Package by Ken Ward Jr. CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Coal supporters have managed to tuck more than $4.6 billion in money for the industry into a Senate version of the economic stimulus package. A flock of geese [...]
Emperor Penguin ‘Marching to Extinction by End of the Century’
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by The Independent/UK Emperor Penguin ‘Marching to Extinction by End of the Century’ by Steve Connor The Emperor penguin is marching towards extinction because the Antarctic sea ice on which it depends for survival is shrinking at a faster rate than the bird is able evolve if it is [...]
Russia Drops Kaliningrad Missile Plans
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Agence France Presse Russia Drops Kaliningrad Missile Plans MOSCOW – Russia has shelved plans to install missiles on central Europe’s doorstep after detecting a cooling by the Obama administration towards a controversial US shield project, a military official said on Wednesday. A Russian Iskander missile mounted on [...]
Iran Leader Demands US Apology for Bush
January 28, 2009Who is he that he can demand that we change our foreign policy? I guess he thinks that what he says goes and that we have to listen to him. It just makes me want to support Israel even more. He has no right to tell us as a nation what to do, or demand [...]
KBR Must Be Accountable for Iraq Deaths: US Senators
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Reuters KBR Must Be Accountable for Iraq Deaths: US Senators by Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday raised concerns about the U.S. military’s increased use of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, and said KBR and other companies should be held accountable for the electrocution deaths [...]
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by The San Francisco Chronicle Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail by Amy Goodman Karl Rove recently described George W. Bush as a book lover, writing, “There is a myth perpetuated by Bush critics that he would rather burn a book than read one.” There will be [...]
‘Wake Up, World!’ – SOS From the Amazon
January 28, 2009Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Inter Press Service ‘Wake Up, World!’ – SOS From the Amazon by Mario Osava BELÉM, Brazil – A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message “SOS Amazon” to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous [...]
