Published on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Politico.com C-SPAN’s Lamb to Congress: Open Health Care Debate by Michael Calderone C-SPAN chief executive Brian Lamb, who has long fought for more television access in Congress, is now asking House and Senate leadership to allow cameras inside while members hammer out differences between the two health care [...]
Archive for January 2010
C-SPAN’s Lamb to Congress: Open Health Care Debate
January 5, 2010The Dangers of Glenn Beck
January 5, 2010The Dangers of Glenn Beck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81oDMckMvA4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBZ1_8MPjgA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBb7JWkvfs&NR=1
Patrick Cockburn: Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn’t Learned the Lesson of History
January 4, 2010http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/4/patrick_cockburn_threats_to_yemen_prove Patrick Cockburn: Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn’t Learned the Lesson of History The United States and Britain have closed their embassies in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, citing security threats from an al-Qaeda group. On Saturday, President Obama connected the foiled Christmas Day attack on the Detroit-bound flight to al-Qaeda in Yemen. [...]
World’s Climate Refugees Unable to Return Home
January 4, 2010Published on Sunday, January 3, 2010 by the New York Times World’s Climate Refugees Unable to Return Home by Joanna Kakissis DHAKA, BANGLADESH – Mahe Noor left her village in southern Bangladesh after Cyclone Sidr flattened her family’s home and small market in 2007. Jobless and homeless, she and her husband, Nizam Hawladar, moved to [...]
Means and Ways to Build a Sustainable Food System
January 4, 2010Published on Monday, January 4, 2010 by Civil Eats Means and Ways to Build a Sustainable Food System by Jen Dalton I spent a day volunteering at the SF Food Bank over the holidays and spending hours sorting through canned goods really got me thinking. What will it will take to stop hunger and what [...]
2010 Year of Biodiversity Tries to Rein in Runaway Extinctions
January 4, 2010Published on Monday, January 4, 2010 by Environment News Service 2010 Year of Biodiversity Tries to Rein in Runaway Extinctions NEW YORK, New York – Due to human activities, the world’s animal and plant species are disappearing at a rate some experts put at 1,000 times the natural progression, the United Nations said January 1, [...]
U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes
January 3, 2010Published on Saturday, January 2, 2010 by the New York Times U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes by Peter S. Goodman The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more [...]
My New Year Thoughts
January 2, 2010Happy New year!!! I am feeling that 2010 will be a better year for everyone. I found this quote in a book that I am reading about John Adams. I really like John Adams. I can relate to his New England Yankee ways. His passion and fire combined with his honesty I think make him [...]
Concern as China Clamps Down on Rare Earth Exports
January 2, 2010Published on Saturday, January 2, 2010 by the Independent/UK Concern as China Clamps Down on Rare Earth Exports Neodymium is one of 17 metals crucial to green technology. There’s only one snag – China produces 97% of the world’s supply. And they’re not selling by Cahal Milmo Britain and other Western countries risk running out [...]
“The Era of Tolerance Is Over”–Iran Warns over Opposition Protests
January 1, 2010http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/31/the_era_of_tolerance_is_over “The Era of Tolerance Is Over”–Iran Warns over Opposition Protests Iran’s police chief has warned anti-government protesters to stay off the streets and threatened, “The era of tolerance is over. Anyone attending such rallies will be crushed.” Hundreds of prominent activists have been arrested since Sunday’s mass street protests, and between eight to thirty-seven [...]
