Photo: Abardwell According to a recent story in the New York Times , prisoners and employees in 10 federal prisons were exposed to toxic metals while processing electronic waste for recycling. The program, which has been overseen by Unicor since 1997, works with federal prisons to recycle computer monitors, televisions, printers, and other pieces of
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Continue reading …Two men in their early twenties have been arrested in Greece in connection with four mail bombs addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Mexican, Belgian and Dutch embassies in Athens. BBC: The first package detonated when a woman working at the courier company became suspicious of the contents and threw it to the ground. Another package addressed to the Dutch embassy was found at the offices of a second company and a controlled explosion was later carried out. As police arrived, two men described as wearing wigs and bulletproof vests and carrying handguns, were arrested at a bus stop. At this point, two further packages were found, addressed to the French president and the Belgian embassy. Read more
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Continue reading …Truthdig’s own Robert Scheer made a recent appearance on “GRITtv with Laura Flanders” and went straight for the jugular with his pronouncement, now two years since the presidential election and on the brink of the midterms, that it’s time for “an obit on our hopes.” Related Entries November 1, 2010 The World Is Safer Without a Republican House October 31, 2010 GOP Ideas
Continue reading …Maybe certain other countries (ahem, USA) can learn from Brazil’s example, as the Brazilian people elected their first female president on Sunday, and the significance of the event in terms of gender equality wasn’t lost on President-elect Dilma Rousseff. After she won Sunday’s vote, Rousseff made her “first commitment” to her countrywomen in her victory speech, delivered in the capital city of Brasilia. Click here for The Guardian’s in-depth analysis of the campaign, outcome and significance of Brazil’s big election.
Continue reading …CNN led their hour-long documentary “Boiling Point: Inside the Tea Party,” which aired on Saturday and Sunday, with the regular accusation from liberals that racism is ” running rampant ” in the Tea Party movement. Host Shannon Travis highlighted the NAACP's resolution, disgraced former Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams's self-described “foolish satire,” and played up two racially-charged signs. Before raising the racism charge, Travis raised another liberal stereotype perpetuated by the mainstream media: the angry Tea Party: “This is what you know about the Tea Party Movement: rallies like these, angry protesters demanding that lawmakers spend less of your money and spend more time adhering to the Constitution .” After stating that “rallies like these across the country, don't tell the full picture” and that “there's a lot you don't know about the Tea Party movement,” the CNN host stopped briefly to give some poll numbers on the partisan breakdown of the movement before proceeding to the race issue: TRAVIS: In order to get a sense of what this movement is really about, we have to take an accurate look at who these people actually are. I want to share with you some of our latest numbers from our CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Forty-nine percent of Tea Party members and supporters are actually Republican, according to this poll; 43 percent of them are independent; and eight percent are Democrats. One thing that we have to talk about is, as the movement has grown in size, there's also been one sizable controversy, and that's this notion that Tea Party activists are racists. It actually came to a head this past July, when the NAACP, basically- they passed a resolution, saying that racism was running rampant, and that Tea Party leaders, figures, aren't doing enough to actually put a stop to it . read more
Continue reading …On Friday, I spent some time going over numbers from the 2006 maoyral election. Initially, I was intrigued by Shari Decter Hirst’s 1,500-vote margin of victory this year and wanted to see where she was strongest, and where incumbent Dave Burgess had managed to fend her off.
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