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  • Reply to: The Other Half of the Nuclear Industry's Power Couple: Christine Todd Whitman   16 years 7 months ago
    The <i>New York Times</i> [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/nyregion/28registry.html reports today]: <blockquote>Rescue and recovery workers at ground zero have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times what would be expected for adults. ... Of nearly 26,000 workers surveyed in 2003 and 2004, 926 reported that they developed asthma for the first time after working at ground zero (a rate of 3.6 percent). In a group that size, under normal conditions, no more than 77 new cases of asthma (0.3 percent) would have been expected, according to the report, which is published in the current issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, a science and health journal.</blockquote>
  • Reply to: Whistleblowers Treated Like Terrorists   16 years 7 months ago

    the soldier who blew the whistle on the goings-on at Abu Ghraib? No less a dignitary than Donald Rumsfeld singled him out by name on TV to "praise" him, which was tantamount to declaring him fair game.

    Truth, justice, and the American way.

  • Reply to: "Coffee with the Troops" at Yearly Kos Fuels Debate About the Netroots and the War   16 years 7 months ago
    As I have said, we approached Yearly Kos and asked them if they would simply add the event to their schedule since no other event was scheduled in that time slot, 9:30am Sunday, and we had already taken on all the costs for the event (a thousand dollars for room rental, setup, pastries and coffee). They declined. We weren't asking them to make it an official event, we were simply asking them to make attendees aware by putting it up on the online schedule, a simply online edit that takes two seconds. It would have been very easy for them to do this, but for whatever reason they declined.
  • Reply to: YouTube Wars - Freedom's Watch vs. IVAW. Which is Real Grassroots, Which is a Front Group?   16 years 7 months ago
    John Stewart interviewed Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the the authors of the Army's new Counterinsurgency Field Manual. http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=92011&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2F&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true (Sorry for the commercial.) Most of the talk was about that manual, but the point of the appearance was clearly to tell us that we're "making progress" in Iraq, and we're fighting like good guys fight. I believe we've just glimpsed the limit of Stewart's leash there at Viacom. He usually gets in at least one good bite on every pro-war guest, but he handled Nagl with the utmost care and solicitude. I thought I'd tuned in to CNN or Fox. New buzzword: "Sunni awakening."
  • Reply to: NPR Urged to Follow the Money on Nuclear Issues   16 years 7 months ago

    That is a good idea Mutternuch BUT would they stop taking corporate funding if we all donated enough? Or would they just be greedy and take it anyway. Is there anyone out there (besides sites like these) who really gives a damn about public interest anymore. Or would they just see the grants as pay raises for themselves?

    It is a vicious cycle too, because the more they sell out, the more those old hippies are going to get disgusted with them. I have to admit I didn't give. I thought about it cause I really wanted Liam Lawton tickets (awesome Celtic musician who happens to be a priest), but then I thought about their one sided handling of obesity issues. And I said screw it, why should I donate to folks who just slap me in the face and promote stereotypes without even TRYING to give both sides of the issue!

    Our entire society is just driven by greed and will fall apart. I am glad I am alot closer to 50 than 20 cause I have had it!!!!!!

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