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Tony Benn to BBC "If you wont broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will myself"
Submitted by bart on Mon, 2009-01-26 10:50.Dennis Kucinich-US Weapons Used To Kill Children Paid For By US Taxpayers
Submitted by bart on Thu, 2009-01-08 12:15.You are being lied to about Somalian Pirates
Submitted by bart on Wed, 2009-01-07 16:47.from the Independent:
The words of one pirate from that lost age, a young British man called William Scott, should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirateing to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.
Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean.
Up with Cake!
Submitted by bart on Fri, 2008-08-15 10:47.I especially love Carrot Cake, which is not only tasty but good for you. Get all your Vitamin A in a single slice of Carrot Cake! And if there is coconut shavings in the frosting its even healthier!
Cake can be healthy, here's a Vegan Cake recipe from Whole Foods:
* 1 1/2 teaspoons egg replacer (such as Ener-G Egg Replacer)
* 1 cup almond or organic soy milk
GRITtv Commentary: Frida Berrigan + Hiroshima Music Video
Submitted by bart on Mon, 2008-08-11 11:50.
Death of the SUV
Submitted by bart on Wed, 2008-05-07 10:26.from Global Economics Blog:
As energy prices soar, Frustrated owners try to unload their guzzlers.
Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles that have for years dominated the nation's highways. Sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans' obsession with horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80 to fill gas tanks.
A Woman's War on Killer Plastic Bags
Submitted by bart on Tue, 2008-05-06 16:18.MODBURY, England — Rebecca Hosking’s moment, when a happy English farm girl cried tears that changed her life, came on a speck of sugar-white beach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
“All you could smell was death,” Hosking recalled, sitting snugly in a 600-year-old pub in her rainy home town, which has been transformed by her epiphany two years ago on Midway Atoll.