Some things considered

U.S. position on global poverty and sustainability in seven sentences, two of them fully redacted

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:33:30 -0400

U.S. position on global poverty and sustainability in seven sentences, two of them fully redacted

via The Animal Abuse Awareness Site

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:24:03 -0400

via The Animal Abuse Awareness Site

Mitt Romney's VP pick needs a new hero. Again.

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:05:00 -0400

Mitt Romney's VP pick needs a new hero. Again.:

Paul Ryan may not be a socialist, but if he wants to preserve his street cred with the Tea Party crowd, he does need to find a new hero. (And no, I am not suggesting that he dump Ayn Rand. He did that months ago.)

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By Captain Blueberry, ↬ EVOLVE! Campaigns

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:48:00 -0400

By Captain Blueberry, ↬ EVOLVE! Campaigns

This must be one of Bill Maher’s all-time best...

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:14:59 -0400

This must be one of Bill Maher’s all-time best commentaries. And he may have even found a new campaign slogan for the Democrats: “Vote for us: we are lame, but the other guys are nuts!”

treekisser: …not to mention the widespread, well-documented...

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:49:14 -0400

treekisser:

…not to mention the widespread, well-documented animal abuse and the fact that one egg contains more cholesterol than a Double Whopper…

Use your dollars to vote for health & compassion; scramble tofu instead.

Few history books tell the story of the GI movement to end the...

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:01:30 -0400

Few history books tell the story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. After you watch Sir! No Sir!, you’ll understand why. You can watch this and two other films about war veterans’ movement to end wars for free until 9 a.m. tomorrow (May 29) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DisplacedFilms/featured

↬ We Are Not Your Soldiers

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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:13:19 -0400

furfreela: It’s been a very good March for fur bearing animals!...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:10:11 -0400

furfreela:

It’s been a very good March for fur bearing animals! I’d like to dedicate this post to all of you who believe that “Fur is Green”

According to The Guardian, “An ad campaign claiming that it is “eco-friendly to wear fur” has been banned, after the advertising watchdog dismissed assertions that choosing fur is good because it “lasts a lifetime” and “helps conservation”.

The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) is an independent European council that makes sure all advertisements are legal, decent, honest and truthful. After EFBA could not provide convincing evidence that their product would cause no environmental damage, taking account of the full life cycle of the product from manufacture to disposal, the ad was deemed misleading and has been banned.

You can read the full report here.

Via PINNACLE: Reinvent The Icon

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Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:11:00 -0400

Viewed objectively through the prism of moral philosophy,...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:22:55 -0500

Viewed objectively through the prism of moral philosophy, killing animals for their fur is no more and no less wrong than eating meat, eggs, or dairy. And yet, there is something especially gratuitous and cruel about the fur industry - perhaps because we can at least pretend that we need to eat animal products to be healthy (and many people still believe this dangerous myth), while with fur, no such defense is possible.

treekisser:

Fight for them. Please sign & share:

http://www.change.org/petitions/intermix-please-go-fur-free

Water Pipe Study: United States Needs $1 Trillion For Drinking Water Lines Over Next 25 Years

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:31:21 -0500

Water Pipe Study: United States Needs $1 Trillion For Drinking Water Lines Over Next 25 Years:

parkstepp:

Plugging the leaks in water pipes and building new ones to keep up with a growing population could cost the United States $1 trillion over the next 25 years, according to an industry study released Monday.

That study unearths a subject few Americans think about: buried drinking-water mains. As with aging highway infrastructure, however, the vast network of pipes built out during the boom years of the 20th century is now nearing the end of its life span.

“We’ve known for a long time that pipe networks are aging. We didn’t appreciate the magnitude of the challenge,” said Tom Curtis, deputy executive director of the American Water Works Association, which commissioned the report. “The size of the need was startling even to water professionals.”

The report did not include wastewater lines, which could double the national price-tag.

Instead, we spend money on war..on our military budget, which is insanely huge…while our domestic needs go untouched.

parkstepp

'Eat More Kale' creator decides to fight back against Chick-fil-A: Raising money to film documentary

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:05:41 -0500

'Eat More Kale' creator decides to fight back against Chick-fil-A: Raising money to film documentary:

If the news of a federal judge in NY dismissing organic farmers’ lawsuit against Monsanto left you angry and frustrated, here is your chance to fight back against corporate abuses. This case has the potential to become the next McLibel scandal. Let’s make Chick-Fil-A regret their decision to bully this artist and the kale farmers he is trying to support!

Number of U.S. vegans doubled in 2 years! Or not….

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:41:00 -0500

Number of U.S. vegans doubled in 2 years! Or not….:

Some vegan blogs have reported that a recent poll commissioned by The Vegetarian Resource Group and conducted by Harris International shows a dramatic growth in the number of vegans in the U.S. (an increase of more than 100% in two years). I would like this to be true as much as anyone, but the data do not support such claims. Sorry to disappoint you. Read this post to learn why celebrations are premature.

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Who knew Mitt Romney’s father-in-law was a scientist and...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:37:00 -0500

Who knew Mitt Romney’s father-in-law was a scientist and an avowed atheist who was posthumously baptized into Mormonism by the Romney clan? Watch Bill Maher un-baptize his fellow free-thinker.

This almost made me want to watch the Super Bowl. Jokes aside,...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:10:00 -0500

This almost made me want to watch the Super Bowl. Jokes aside, Bill Maher does make a good point: socialism is not just about fairness and equality: it can be good for business!