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June 29, 2006
Web Note: This is a blatant attempt to take away citizens' rights to pass and enforce local laws dealing with corporate power, public health, and environmental sustainability.
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the filing of four lawsuits challenging four municipal ordinances. These are the first lawsuits filed under Pennsylvania's Agricultural, Communities and Rural Environment (ACRE) law, which was enacted to help protect Pennsylvania agriculture from unauthorized municipal regulation.
"The lawsuits Read more
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the filing of four lawsuits challenging four municipal ordinances. These are the first lawsuits filed under Pennsylvania's Agricultural, Communities and Rural Environment (ACRE) law, which was enacted to help protect Pennsylvania agriculture from unauthorized municipal regulation.
"The lawsuits Read more
News
June 20, 2006
Three dollars a gallon for gas. Soaring home heating costs. Record oil company profits. Billions in taxpayers dollars raked in by those same oil companies in subsidies and tax breaks promoted by the Bush administration and passed by the Republicans in Congress who rake in Big Oil campaign contributions.
And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.
Americans ought to be up Read more
And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.
Americans ought to be up Read more
News
June 19, 2006
Momentous change is approaching in American politics. Conceivably, the turning point has already arrived, too indistinct to recognize. We are witnessing the demise of the reigning economic ideology. A deep shift of this kind is a very rare event, one that comes along only every thirty or forty years. Economic disorders accumulate that the orthodoxy cannot answer and may even have caused. Eventually, the ideological presumptions are discredited by real-world contradictions.
The last time this happened was in the 1970s, when economic liberalism foundered and collapsed. Ossified Read more
The last time this happened was in the 1970s, when economic liberalism foundered and collapsed. Ossified Read more
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Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 05:34:11 AM PDT
by <http://antifa.dailykos.comantifa
So you pull into your neighborhood gas station one morning to fill `er up. Pop the gas cap. Swipe your card. Stick the nozzle - hey, it doesn't fit! What the __?!? "We're sorry," says a disembodied voice over the speaker, "Your vehicle's gas tank isn't compatible with our Exxon Gasoline Service. Also, you don't seem to be a member of the Exxon Gasoline Portal. Would you like to order our Exxon Gas Cap today for only $39.95, and get your first month's membership free?"
"Hey, I Read more
News
June 14, 2006
Greg Palast is such a good investigative reporter, he can't get a job with a mainstream media outlet in the United States. That's right, Palast is good enough for the BBC and the London Guardian and Observer, but he is too good for any paper or television station in the United States.
You see, the mainstream press in America sees a big boulder blocking the road and there's all sorts of arms and legs sticking out from underneath. The White House tells the media that their eyes are deceiving them and there is nothing under the boulder. They warn them not to try and move it, Read more
You see, the mainstream press in America sees a big boulder blocking the road and there's all sorts of arms and legs sticking out from underneath. The White House tells the media that their eyes are deceiving them and there is nothing under the boulder. They warn them not to try and move it, Read more
News
June 13, 2006
The end for South Central Farm?
BY BRENT HOPKINS, Staff Writer
LA Times
6/14/2006
Not legal challenges, not folk singers' entreaties, not even a last-minute infusion of $10 million could save the South Central Farm.
Sheriff's deputies moved in before dawn Tuesday to evict the farmers from the 14-acre plot, a rare swath of green in the otherwise industrial belt between Alameda Street and Long Beach Avenue. Seeking to prolong the multiyear land dispute, protesters chained themselves to pipes inside.
Actress Daryl Hannah, Read more
BY BRENT HOPKINS, Staff Writer
LA Times
6/14/2006
Not legal challenges, not folk singers' entreaties, not even a last-minute infusion of $10 million could save the South Central Farm.
Sheriff's deputies moved in before dawn Tuesday to evict the farmers from the 14-acre plot, a rare swath of green in the otherwise industrial belt between Alameda Street and Long Beach Avenue. Seeking to prolong the multiyear land dispute, protesters chained themselves to pipes inside.
Actress Daryl Hannah, Read more
News
June 9, 2006
The House voted on legislation yesterday that could determine the future of the Internet and public access television in this country. We examine the implications of the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act - known as the COPE bill - with Anthony Riddle of the Alliance for Community Media. [includes rush transcript] The House voted on legislation yesterday that could determine the future of the internet and public access television in this country. In a vote of 321 to 101, the House voted to pass the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act, known as the Read more
News
June 9, 2006
Some fear the decision will mean net providers start deciding on behalf of customers which websites and services they can visit and use.
The vote is a defeat for Google, eBay and Amazon which wanted the net neutrality principle protected by law.
All three mounted vigorous lobbying campaigns prior to the vote in the House of Representatives.
Tier fear The rejection of the principle of net neutrality came during a debate on the wide-ranging Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act).
Among other things, this aims to make Read more
The vote is a defeat for Google, eBay and Amazon which wanted the net neutrality principle protected by law.
All three mounted vigorous lobbying campaigns prior to the vote in the House of Representatives.
Tier fear The rejection of the principle of net neutrality came during a debate on the wide-ranging Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act).
Among other things, this aims to make Read more
News
May 31, 2006
As of 2003, some 1,100 U.S. municipalities had privatized their drinking-water systems, hoping that mismanaged public systems could be made higher-quality at relatively low cost. So much for that idea. Private firms in cities across the country have been investigated for illegally discharging sewage into rivers, shirking on maintenance, and failing to disclose high levels of toxics in drinking water. Shady business abounds: as a convicted Cleveland, Ohio, water broker said in a wiretapped conversation, "Ninety percent of getting public contracts required greasing the palms of public officials Read more
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May 19, 2006
From: <www.etcgroup.org>
NEWS RELEASE
Today, a coalition of thirty-five international organizations
including scientists, environmentalists, trade unionists, biowarfare
experts and social justice advocates called for inclusive public
debate, regulation and oversight of the rapidly advancing field of
synthetic biology - the construction of unique and novel artificial
life forms to perform specific tasks. Synthetic biologists are
meeting this weekend in Berkeley, California where they Read more
NEWS RELEASE
Today, a coalition of thirty-five international organizations
including scientists, environmentalists, trade unionists, biowarfare
experts and social justice advocates called for inclusive public
debate, regulation and oversight of the rapidly advancing field of
synthetic biology - the construction of unique and novel artificial
life forms to perform specific tasks. Synthetic biologists are
meeting this weekend in Berkeley, California where they Read more
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