A billboard for a Northern California gun range is drawing controversy for featuring Santa Claus carrying an AR-15. According to CBS Sacramento, the billboard for Down Range Indoor Training Center in Chico, California shows Santa with a gun and a… Read More ›
Month: December 2014
Coming Events-2015 Random Thoughts
Détente with Putin, Putin gets concessions and resumes his merry way, ISIL black-marketing more oil, China cutting car sales unless they buy a green energy vehicle, India continues hoarding rice Sudan, Central America enter food crisis an Investigation of CCA… Read More ›
Funerals Begin for 141 Slain in Taliban Attack on Pakistan School
Ayaz Gul and Hameedullah Khan contributed reporting from Pakistan for Voice of America The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of… Read More ›
Why Climate Scientists Receive Death Threats
by Tim Radford, Climate New Network If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands… Read More ›
Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
A Times reporter and photographer find that thousands of laborers at Mexico’s mega-farms endure harsh conditions and exploitation while supplying produce for American consumers. By Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti A four part series in the Los Angeles Times The… Read More ›
Israel’s destruction of multistorey buildings: extensive, wanton and unjustified
Air strikes on landmark buildings at the tail end of the Israeli military’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in August 2014 were a deliberate and direct attack on civilian buildings and amount to war crimes, says Amnesty International today. “Nothing… Read More ›
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›
The US Congress-Climate Change? Doubtful
Really, they’re actually talking about Tax Reform? Mostly it’s code words for ‘spreading the taxation out to the most people, excluding corporations (even though they are ‘people’) of course because they are soooo willing to pay their part. They’re been… Read More ›
Christmas Sign-You’re a Red Neck Nick If-
you cut your Christmas tree with an AK-47 you build a fireplace- on your double wide porch for Santa your mom sent you to pay on her Christmas layaway but you bought beer you were suppose to play Santa at… Read More ›
No indictment in NYC police chokehold death of Eric Garner
By David Ferguson in the Raw Story The Staten Island grand jury investigating the death of New York’s Eric Garner — an asthmatic man who died of a heart attack after being held in a police chokehold — has declined… Read More ›