1. “Multiple URL’s” (text at bottom) explains why the links are here, and not in the email I distributed. 2. 2013-05-15 Can you help? Do you know a family that has experienced breast or prostate (or other) cancer? 3. 2013-05-13 Anti-census crusader loses appeal. Finley may take battle to top court. Saskatoon Star Phoenix 4. […]
http://www.monbiot.com/2013/04/29/2662/ By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th April 2013 What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line? I ask because, in too many cases, they soon […]
NOTE: There are PROTESTS against the chemical-biotech corporations AROUND THE WORLD, on Saturday, May 25th. Find or organize one in your area. Google `March against Monsanto“. Al Jazeera posting 6 days ago is informative –http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304232041-0022698 You`ll see where Hawaii is one of the hotspots. Make your own place another!! I will be sending out more info. […]
(written in 2006, but remains valid) CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIPS AND CORRUPTION The false idea of Public-Private-Partnerships has been embraced by different political parties: – the Conservatives (Michael Wilson, Federal Finance Minister in Government of Brian Mulroney was one of the early promoters of the idea in about 1982). – the Liberals under […]
RE: the G&M article below a toxic smorgasbord of buildings, tailings ponds and a quarter-million tonnes of arsenic stored underground . . . before large amounts of arsenic start escaping from collapsing buildings. … The poisoning from the Giant Mine has been known for a long time. Now, a billion dollars — ALL from tax-payers. […]
Many thanks to John Helliwell. Excellent material: http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/tag/subjective-wellbeing/ (Part of the “why” of my interest in economic indicators is at: 2012-12-07 I am just back from Bhutan (Gross Happiness Index)! (economic indicators) ) – – – – – – – – – – – – – A copy of part of the Social Capital […]
Laugh or cry? . . . the scare of nuclear weapons – enough of them on the planet to blow us all to oblivion a few times over . . . the people around the world who have worked decade after decade toward “nuclear nonproliferation”? THEN CHECK THIS OUT: One year and $5 million later, Harper’s charity […]
I want to make sure this TED Talk by Ron Finley is widely known. Maybe you’ll experience the same high as I did, watching it?! http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Ron Finley’s work is very positive and creative. It is CONSTRUCTION; this is what […]
NOTE: it is better to watch the video of this talk. Please see 2013-04-08 Excellent! TED Talk, Ron Finley, A guerilla gardener in south central L.A. – – – – – – – – – TRANSCRIPT Showing Revision 3, created 03/07/2013 by Morton Bast. Title: Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA Description: Ron […]
PAUL EHRLICH is controversial. He wrote The Population Bomb in 1968. Some of his dire predictions have not come to pass. Others argue that it is because of his warnings that the global community made adjustments and delayed the day of reckoning. Ehrlich (below) is joined with other scientists. “More than 3,000 experts concluded humanity […]