Cram Down Health Care Reform

Cram Down Health Care Reform
Things probably need to change with America’s health care. It would be great if we could figure out ways to lower the cost of health care without having the government administer it. I hate that I’ve spent the last 20 years working my ass off and getting educated to work competitive and good jobs only [...]
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Forget your AirJesus� - Everyone can walk on water now

Artist Michael Gross flooded a London church-turned-gallery with water. In his installation, entitled Bridge, a "lake" hides a system of mechanically-moving steps that enable visitors to walk on water.

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Steve Irwin stingray video (warning: extreme)

Controversially, this video of Steve Irwin being killed by a stingray has been released into the public domain.

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Create topic-specific custom news feeds as well as create niche vertical content web sites that showcase always updated information aggregated around vertical topics Create topic-specific custom news feeds as well as create niche vertical content web sites that showcase always updated information aggregated around vertical topics China retail sales jump 14
Create topic-specific custom news feeds as well as create niche vertical content web sites that showcase always updated information aggregated around vertical topics

Create topic-specific custom news feeds as well as create niche vertical content web sites that showcase always updated information aggregated around vertical topics

China retail sales jump 14.2 percent in May (AFP)

AFP - China's retail sales, the main indicator of consumer spending in the Asian nation's fast-growing economy, rose 14.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, official data have showed.

Secret plans to protect Blair from attack left in hotel (AFP)

AFP - Secret plans to protect Prime Minister Tony Blair from a terrorist attack were left in a hotel in the northern English city of Manchester, police said.

La. to get $23.9M charter school grant (AP)

AP - The charter school movement, already bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated public schools in and around New Orleans, got another boost Monday: Federal officials announced a $23.9 million grant to create new charter schools in the state.

Bredesen signs health care legislation (AP)
AP - Gov. Phil Bredesen signed health care legislation on Monday designed to help cover Tennessee's more than 600, 000 uninsured workers.
Ex-convict found guilty in 1996 rapes (AP)
AP - A serial sex offender who raped actress Kelly McGillis nearly 25 years ago was convicted Monday of raping and robbing two other women in their home in 1996.
UK chemical bomb suspect denies attack plot (Reuters)

Reuters - One of two men accused of plotting to make a chemical bomb for an attack in Britain has denied any involvement, his lawyer said on Sunday, as police continued to search his house.

Top British police officer under fire again over Brazilian shooting (AFP)

AFP - Britain's top police officer is "entirely safe" in his job for now, despite mounting pressure over his force's handling of the mistaken shooting of a Brazilian man, a government minister said.

Alberto swirls toward Fla. coast (AP)

AP - Windows were boarded up and the streets on this island in the Gulf of Mexico were desolate as Alberto — the first tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season — swirled toward Florida early Tuesday with winds below hurricane strength.

Britain's top cop could face charges over killing of Brazilian (AFP)

AFP - Britain's top police officer Sir Ian Blair could face legal charges over the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man who was mistaken by police for a suicide bomber last year.

Katrina evacuee arrested in killing (AP)
AP - A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who police called one of the Houston area's "most wanted killers, " has been arrested in Louisiana on charges of killing a fellow evacuee in a robbery, police said Monday.
US steps back from Guantanamo suicide comments (Reuters)

Reuters - A senior U.S. official rowed back on Monday from remarks by colleagues that Guantanamo Bay prisoners' suicides were an act of war and a "good PR move, " after the comments were condemned abroad.

Jabil Circuit cuts third-quarter profit forecast (Reuters)
Reuters - Electronics design company Jabil Circuit Inc. late on Monday cut its third-quarter earnings forecast, excluding special items, but projected quarterly revenue in line with its earlier projections.
Mich. teen said hiding after Mideast trip (AP)

AP - A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to visit a man she met on MySpace.com was in seclusion to escape the attention surrounding her travels, an attorney for the girl's family said Monday.

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Brazil and China Invest in Their Future
While the children are running the federal government here in the good old United States, countries with serious agendas are putting their money to work in investments that will move them forward in years to come. China and Brazil are setting themselves up to be the new world superpowers while the government of the United [...]
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North Korea and the nuclear menace

In case you've all been in suspended animation over the weekend, North Korea set off a nuclear weapon early this morning, sending seismographs around the world a trembling. This has serious repercussions for all our futures, both an arms race perspective, and from an environmental point of view ( I could argue that everything is an environmental issue, but I don't want to confuse matters).

My colleague, Brian, posted this quote from R�mi Parmentier on our Making Waves blog:

When I read that the North Korean authorities claim that their underground nuclear test has not "resulted in any leak of radiation", what comes immediately to my mind is this photo of the venting of the US Baneberry "underground" test in the Nevada desert in 1970. Greenpeace was the first, in 1981, to leak this now iconic picture; it was Allan Thornton (from Greenpeace at the time) who put his hand on it in Washington DC. Read more: Nuclear test: what should we do? �

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Highway Fund is Going Broke - Let’s Spend More Money!
There is so much money being spent, borrowed, taxed and stimulated that I hardly know where to begin writing these posts. I just read that the nation’s highway fund is soon going to be broke. The Obama administration wants lawmakers to infuse the fund with $7 billion dollars so that current projects can keep going. $7 [...]
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