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Monthly Archives: October 2011
On Weed: Dazed And Confused No More
The American experience with prohibition of alcohol proved that we are capable of learning from our mistakes. The experience with prohibition of marijuana proves that we are also capable of doing just the opposite
. . . This week, the Gallup organization reported that fully 50 percent of Americans now think marijuana should be made legal. This is the first time since Gallup began asking in 1969 that more Americans support legalization than oppose it.
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Bolivia Scraps Controversial Highway Plan
Protesters camp out in front of the government palace to
protest against the construction of the highway [Reuters]
President Morales cancels plans to build highway through a nature reserve after sustained protest from Amazon Indians . . . Morales did not abandon the idea of a highway through Bolivia linking Brazil with the Pacific coast, but said on Friday it would no longer cut through the pristine Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, or TIPNIS.
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Quote: Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, Ph.D., (born 1933)
Political Scientist, Historian, Author, Lecturer, and Culture Critic
U.S. commitments are not to the ordinary people of other lands, but to the privileged reactionary factions that are most accommodating to Western investors . . . right-wing government maintains the existing privileged order of the free market, keeping the world safe for the empowered hierarchies and wealthy classes of the world.
Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
The project received funds from sources that back organisations lobbying against action on climate change . . . Funding came from a number of sources, including charitable foundations maintained by the Koch brothers, the billionaire US industrialists, who have also donated large sums to organisations lobbying against acceptance of man-made global warming . . . Since the 1950s, the average temperature over land has increased by 1C, the group found . . . [T]hey emphasise that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) driven by greenhouse gas emissions is very much in their picture.
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Jon Bon Jovi’s charity restaurant opens in NJ
In three decades as one of the world’s biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world’s best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer.
Yet there’s no place he’d rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a “pay-what-you-can” restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station in central New Jersey.
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Quote: Mark Edmundson
Mark Edmundson, Ph.D. (born 1952)
University Professor, Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, Author
On how reading changes your life?
We all get socialized one time around, by parents, and teachers, and schools, and Priests, and Ministers, and what have you. And for a lot of people those values will do just fine. They’re community values, they’re long tested, and they’re long tried, and there’s something eminently respectable about them.
But there are other people who, for whatever reason, just don’t fit right in established values. They find themselves disgruntled, dissatisfied even with the best-meaning teachers, and parents. Those people go a lot of different directions, but one of the best directions they can go is to become obsessed readers. They read, and read, and read until they start to find people who see the world in way that’s akin to theirs. And then they feel that they’re home. They got a second set of parents, and a second set of teachers, and they can start seeing the world for themselves. A little bit different from the way the community sees it often.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Influential in Passage of Let Women Die Act 2011
. . . [T]he so-called “Protect Life Act” (HR 358), a bill that will endanger women’s lives across the US with an extreme ban on abortion coverage while expanding permission for health professionals to refuse to provide reproductive healthcare services, even in life-threatening situations. . . The Catholic bishops’ actions show an unhealthy obsession with sexual issues. They appear to be hell-bent on wasting real and political capital on dictating to all Americans what their sexual choices should be.
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Always Question Authority 