Tuesday News Bucket

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   CabinGirl on March 6, 2007 at 7:27 am

   loses advertising thanks to blog activists: CNN

   At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter’s Web site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a “faggot.”

   Verizon, Sallie Mae and Georgia-based NetBank each said they didn’t know their ads were on AnnCoulter.com until they received the complaints.

   A diarist at the liberal blog DailyKos.com posted contact information for dozens of companies with ads on Coulter’s site after the commentator made her remarks about Edwards at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday. (Full story)

   “One of the best ways to communicate one’s distaste for Coulter’s repeated incidents of hate speech is to respectfully but firmly let her advertisers know you are deeply troubled by their indirect support of bigotry through their advertising on Coulter’s Web site,” the blogger VolvoDrivingLiberal wrote on DailyKos.com on Sunday.

   Nice job.

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   CabinGirl on March 6, 2007 at 7:37 am

   funding:  AP/WisconsinTV

   Gov. Jim Doyle has directed the state to turn down about $600,000 in federal abstinence education money because new rules would limit how much recipients could talk about contraception or sexually transmitted diseases this year.

   Doyle directed the Department of Health and Family Services to notify federal authorities of his decision, according to department spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis.

   Wisconsin becomes one of a handful of states to reject receipt of the $50 million Title Five Abstinence Program for the current fiscal year.

   Good for Wisconsin.  Anyone know who the other states are?

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   louisianagirl on March 6, 2007 at 7:56 am

   Armando, also known as Big Tent Democrat, has a GBCW diary on the Recommended List of Daily Kos.  He cites problems with that site’s management.

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   dada on March 6, 2007 at 10:54 am

    

   

                  ©vanityfair2006

   Asian air pollution affecting weather

   seems that rapid industrialization of China and Asia is having a detrimental effect on the entire Pacific climate, including the left coast:

   Asia’s growing air pollution — billowing plumes of soot, smog and wood smoke — is making the Pacific region cloudier and stormier, disrupting winter weather patterns along the West Coast and into the Arctic, researchers reported Monday.

   Carried on prevailing winds, the industrial outpouring of dust, sulfur, carbon grit and trace metals from booming Asian economies is having an intercontinental cloud-seeding effect, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

   The study is the first large-scale analysis to draw a link between Asian air pollution and the changing Pacific weather patterns.

   […]

   At monitoring sites along the U.S. West Coast, scientists have been detecting pollutants that originated from smokestacks and tailpipes thousands of miles to the west.

   Recently, researchers at the University of Washington have captured traces of ozone, carbon monoxide, mercury and particulate matter from Asia at monitoring sites on Mt. Bachelor in Oregon and Cheeka Peak in Washington state.

   Cliff and his colleagues have been picking up the telltale chemical signatures of Asian particulates and other pollutants at several monitoring sites north of San Francisco and, during the last year, around Southern California.

   The pollutants, however, are suspended at high altitude. It is unclear how much of them reach ground level or what their direct effect on local weather might be.

   “The air above Los Angeles is primarily from Asia,” Cliff said. “Presumably that air has

   L.A.Times

   and from from The Guardian UK, 3 years ago:

   Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

   · Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
   · Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years
   · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

   Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
   Sunday February 22, 2004
   The Observer

   Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
   A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

   The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents

   […]

   The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

   […]

   full article

   what happened?

   march on the pentagon: 3.17.07

   Draft Al Gore: 2008