Democrats Haunted by Corporate Ties

Published on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Politico.com Democrats Haunted by Corporate Ties by Jonathan Allen and Eamon Javers President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promising a climactic clash with Wall Street, but there’s a complication in their battle plan: The Democratic Party is closer to corporate America – and to Wall Street in [...]

Bolivia Climate Change Talks to Give Poor a Voice

Published on Monday, April 19, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Bolivia Climate Change Talks to Give Poor a Voice by Andres Schipani in La Paz and John Vidal Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous [...]

Betsy Ross Flag

Garfield, Here is a picture of the Betsy Ross flag that I hang in my room and fight for.       BETSY ROSS This flag was adopted June 14, 1777 (Flag Day). The Continental Congress on this day resolved, “That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternating red and white; that the Union [...]

Is This the End of Migration

Published on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by The Independent/UK Is This the End of Migration? Climate change is affecting bird behaviour at a staggering rate. Some 20 billion have already changed their flight plans by Alasdair Fotheringham It’s rained three times as much as usual this winter in Andalusia, and almost every day unemployed amateur [...]

Will the Climate Bill Nuke Earth Day?

Published on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Will the Climate Bill Nuke Earth Day? by Harvey Wasserman The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day. By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can actually [...]

I Believe.

Published on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by Burlington Free Press (Vermont) I Believe. by Samir Doshi Advocates of the sustainability movement envision a future where our global society evolves toward a culture of environmental protection, social equity, democratic participation and representation, and an economy that is predicated on the Earth as the source of capital [...]

‘Revolving Door’ a Bar to Mine Safety?

Published on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by The Washington Post ‘Revolving Door’ a Bar to Mine Safety? Critics: Government, business links tilt regulation toward coal firm interests by Kiberly Kindy and Dan Eggen More than 200 former congressional staff members, federal regulators and lawmakers are employed by the mining industry as lobbyists, consultants or senior [...]

Iran Slams US as ‘World’s Only Atomic Criminal’

Published on Saturday, April 17, 2010 by Agence France-Presse Iran Slams US as ‘World’s Only Atomic Criminal’ TEHRAN — Iran appealed on Saturday for “atomic criminal” the United States to be suspended from the UN nuclear watchdog at a disarmament conference it is hosting. HIROSHIMA 1945 — On August 6, 1945, 8.15 am, the uranium [...]

My Thoughts for Saturday

My Thoughts for Saturday   This came from one of my Catholic Email groups.  I am posting it here because our Pope needs our prayers.   Dear Friend’s in Christ, The message of today is part of the secret revelations that Our Lady revealed to the little Jacinta Marto. So what you read below, is [...]

Thoughts for today

“Every plant that My heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.” (Matt. xv. 13.)’ St. Paul of the Cross I was sent that quote by one of my Catholic email groups.  All seeds not planted by the Father will one day be rooted up.  That idea got me thinking about all the times in [...]