Month: January 2008

Assaulting Roadless Colorado

While holiday celebrations were under way nationwide, the Bush administration kept up its single-minded assault on the nation’s national forests.  On a state-by-state basis, the Clinton era protections to roadless...

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Shell Oil outsources IT jobs

Shell expected to slash 3,200 IT jobs Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has told its staff that it plans to make more than 3,000 job cuts. According to a leaked memo to its staff from Shell’s vice president of IT infrastructure...

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DNCC Votes With Wallet: Qwest

You probably remember this revelation about the pre-9/11 wiretapping, and how it landed the CEO of Qwest in jail because he refused to break the law: … Newly-unsealed court documents related to former Qwest CEO Joe...

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New Year – Same Old Hunger and Poverty

           Go visit FreeRice! A great thank you to Renee in Ohio who posted a link in this comment a few days ago. curly and I spent some time at the link Saturday morning and achieved a decent...

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A Strategy for Iowa Voting

There are two contests tomorrow in the Iowa caucuses. No, I do not refer to the Republican race, but to the Democratic one. There is the battle between Clinton-Edwards-Obama for first place, and then there is the battle between...

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