Via Scoop.it – News for GreensThe Occupy movement forcefully injected a long-taboo topic—America’s appalling “banana republic”-level economic disparities—into the mainstream political debate. That inequality has immense implications, from falling wages, to deteriorating healthcare coverage, the overgrown financial sector, and the decline of America’s productive base. Such sweeping inequality, deeply rooted in our economic and political [...]
How A New York Taxi Company Killed The Electric Car In 1900
Via Scoop.it – Green InnovationIn the early 20th century, electric cars were actually mainstream. In 1900, there were more electric automobiles on New York City streets than cars powered by gasoline. True, there were only 4,192 cars sold in the United States that year, but 1,575 of them were electric. The advantages were obvious — [...]
Climate changes faster than species can adapt, rattlesnake study finds
Via Scoop.it – “Environmental, Climate, Global warming, Oil, Trash, recycling, Green, Energy” The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which species can adapt, according to a newly published study [...]
How climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid
Via Scoop.it – “Environmental, Climate, Global warming, Oil, Trash, recycling, Green, Energy” LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate to a city where the jobs are, only to end up living in a slum regularly submerged…Via www.reuters.com Tags: global warming, Climate change [...]
#US: “If The #Government Calls You A #Terrorist They Can #KILL YOU”
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#Fox in the #Hen #House: #US #President Appoints #Monsanto #Lobbyist to Head #FDA
Via Scoop.it – Revolutionary newsNeighbors of Easton - by Noel JonesVia www.neighborsofeaston.com Tags: Revolutionary newsNeighbors, Noel JonesVia <BR/>
Why I as a Muslim Woman Don’t Wear a Headscarf
Via Scoop.it – Coveting FreedomDoes the Koran really demand that women wear headscarves? Or is it mainly older men who claim they can decide how women should dress – with no theological foundation whatsoever? For the Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor, there is no question about it: the headscarf is obsolete.Via old.qantara.de Tags: Lamya Kaddor <BR/>
We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
Via Scoop.it – News for GreensIf there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws to the Internet. While it was [...]
#Flash-grenades & #tear-gas: 400 arrested at #Occupy #Oakland – #videos & #photos
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‘Cops without #borders”: The Secret #International Working #Group of #Undercover Police
Via Scoop.it – Revolutionary newsGlobal Research – by Andrej HunkoVia www.globalresearch.ca