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The Associated Press released a report on March 8th detailing Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s plan to force the Bush administration to withdraw US troops from Iraq by Fall 2008 (pretty close to the time John Kerry, in his failed 2004 presidential bid, promised to withdraw them after a surge of 40,000 troops).
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HOUSTON, March 2 — Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
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Scott Elkins is the state director of the Sierra Club North Star chapter. His event in Minneapolis-St. Paul is shaping up to be one of our larger actions.
The Sierra Club is proud to host a Step It Up action at the mall in front of Minnesota's state capitol in Saint Paul.
The Sierra Club is proud to host a Step It Up action at the mall in front of Minnesota's state capitol in Saint Paul.
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Watch the video at: http://www.drbronner.com/fairtrade_id_holyland.html
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps is pleased to announce its program to use fair trade and organic sources for all major ingredients has reached a major milestone with the shipment in February of the first order of more than 80 metric tons of fair trade and certified organic olive oil from Palestine and Israel. The olive oil will be in Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps by this summer.
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps is pleased to announce its program to use fair trade and organic sources for all major ingredients has reached a major milestone with the shipment in February of the first order of more than 80 metric tons of fair trade and certified organic olive oil from Palestine and Israel. The olive oil will be in Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps by this summer.
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The heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals for stabilizing the planet's rising temperatures, but some environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid. Their criticism reveals a rift between two approaches: preserving the American way of life at the expense of quicker solutions, or changing the structure of US society to counter an unprecedented threat.
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The Bush-Cheney regime is America's first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America's moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.
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Rachel's Democracy & Health News #895
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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Featured stories in this issue...
Synthetic Biology -- Genetic Engineering on Steroids
A new report from the ETC Group in Canada highlights the power of new genetic engineering techniques that are capable of creating new forms of life never seen on Earth before.
Rachel's Democracy & Health News #895
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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Featured stories in this issue...
Synthetic Biology -- Genetic Engineering on Steroids
A new report from the ETC Group in Canada highlights the power of new genetic engineering techniques that are capable of creating new forms of life never seen on Earth before.
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Union electricians hung out with Youth Against Youth Incarceration. A poet parsed words with a permaculturist. Two seniors and a spoken word artist debated the coming election. Community college students communed with a councilmember, while an architect broke bread with an immigration attorney.
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The majority of the American people want a single-payer health care system Medicare for all.
The majority of doctors want it.
A good chunk of hospital CEOs want it.
But what they want doesn't appear to matter.
Why?
Because a single-payer health care plan would mean the death of the private health insurance industry and reduced profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
The majority of doctors want it.
A good chunk of hospital CEOs want it.
But what they want doesn't appear to matter.
Why?
Because a single-payer health care plan would mean the death of the private health insurance industry and reduced profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
