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textEPA Petitioned to Acknowledge Extensive Fluoride/Brain Risk Evidence by Fluoride Action Network
Groups delivered 2500 pages of scientific evidence to EPA showing fluoride/brain risks that warrants EPA's banning the unnecessary addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2016 11:36am PST
textImportant Martin's Beach meeting re: public access by Repost
I'm writing to let you know of an important opportunity to speak out on behalf of public access to Martins Beach, south of Half Moon Bay....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2016 12:31pm PST
textFukushima quake rock's Japan's and the globe's psyche. by Michael Steinberg
On Tuesday, November 22, at 5:39 a.m., a strong earthquake hit Japan's southeast region, including the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing widespread panic and immediate tsunami warnings....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2016 4:46pm PST
textTrump accuses millions of voting illegally this past election by Lynda Carson
If all goes well for the American people, the electors will not vote for President-elect Donald Trump on December 19, and President-elect Donald Trump will not take the oath of office on January 20, 2017!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 6:15pm PST
textNew Report on an Old Story: Can Santa Cruz Learn from Yale Law School? by Yale Law School, Robert Norse
On reading the summary of the Yale Law School report documenting the Criminalization of the Homeless in Connecticut, I reacted with some thoughts about Santa Cruz. Both my thoughts and the news report summarizing the report I post below. Also included are links to the Executive Summary and the full report....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 1:41pm PST
textFidel Castro 1926-2016 by Que Viva La Revolucion Cubana
This time it is true. The leader of La Primer Tierra Libre De Las Americas, the First Free Territory of the Americas, as Radio Havana Cuba describes Cuba, Fidel Castro, has died at age 90. The many previous announcements were the usual lies of the CIA which tried many times and failed to kill Fidel and destroy the Cuban Revolution....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2016 11:12pm PST
textAn Uncertain Future for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by Greg
The future of a federal consumer watchdog agency is uncertain amidst pledges to reduce the agency. Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the bipartisan 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. The Bureau issues regulations regarding "payday" loans, student loans, credit cards and mortgages. Congress is expected to pass legislation reforming the Bureau's structure and authority next year....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2016 12:50pm PST
textGreen Party Calls for Recount in 2016 Presidential Election by repost
Green Party candidate for President, Jill Stein, is calling for a recount of the 2016 presidential ballots in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. See https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount. For the rest of the story see: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-election-recount-fund-michigan-wisconsin-pennsylvania...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2016 8:11pm PST
textGulnara Karimova is hiding inside the U.S. Embassy? by Michael Morgane
Quite a lot of hardly probable stories about the fate of the late President of Uzbekistan's elder daughter have gone viral recently, however the most likely explanation is that she is secretly staying in the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent. It is common knowledge that Karimova has been in close contact with Ambassador Spratlen on various issues for quite a while. During the long-lasting illness of her father, the 'crown princess' attempted to engage all of her connections in the United States so as...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2016 6:04am PST
textThe First 100 Days Resistance Agenda by Robert Reich
Politico.com published an article with the names of all 538 electors. How can we get them to read "The New York Times' First Profile of Hitler" (1922)? http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/list-who-will-cast-a-formal-vote-for-president-2016-231235...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 6:30pm PST
textMilitarized Police Endanger Lives of Standing Rock Water Protectors With Water Cannon Attack in Freezing Overnight Conditions by Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON, November 21, 2016— Militarized police last night launched a dangerous water cannon attack in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors opposing construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline at Standing Rock, N.D. The attack injured dozens and threatened the lives of American Indians and their allies, most of whom are camping without access to electric heat, by purposely subjecting them to hypothermic conditions....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 6:15pm PST
textTrump's New Interior Department Transition Team Leader Believes Burning Fossil Fuels Is a 'Moral' Imperative by Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON, November 21, 2016 — President-elect Trump today again shook up his anti-environmental transition team, naming the director of a pro-Big-Oil think tank to lead his Interior Department advisory group....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 6:12pm PST
textNLG Calls Out Oakland Police Department for Brutal Treatment of Protesters by NLG-SF
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area (NLGSF) Chapter Calls Out Oakland Police Department for Brutal Treatment of Protesters...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 11:05am PST
textBerkeley Homeless Advocacy Group Demands Cessation of Brutal Harassment - Real Solutions by First They Came for the Homeless
First They Came for the Homeless has been and continues to make visible the face of homelessness in Berkeley. They demand the one thing that everyone needs - a place to call their own....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2016 8:04am PST
textBeyond the Hollow Ones by Paul Street
The elitist corporate Democrats prefer to hand power over to a quasi or real fascist than to be a social democratic party of the people... Don't count on people slipping under the bus of history without a nasty fight... The fake-populist Trump's right-wing Big Business Agenda will get opposition from the "hard" Lefties... The election of Trump ought to signal the death-knell of the Clinton-Obama-Democratic Leadership Conference Neoliberal ideology atop the Democratic Party....
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2016 7:11am PST
textCiting Climate Crisis, Trump Presidency, San Francisco Supervisors Ban Fossil Fuel Extraction on City-owned Lands by Center for Biological Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO, November 16, 2016 — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday approved legislation prohibiting new fossil fuel leases on city-owned property in an effort to combat climate change. The legislation by Supervisor John Avalos originated with 350 Bay Area analyst Jed Holtzman, who discovered the city was leasing to Chevron an 800-acre property that it inherited in Kern County. City finance officials say converting the property to a solar array could generate more revenue than...
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 4:26pm PST
textA Trump administration will probably be hostile to affordable housing programs by Lynda Carson
Tens of thousands of low-income households in the Bay Area, including veterans, the chronically ill, elderly and disabled, are being placed at risk of homelessness if the Republicans have it their way, now that they are gaining full control of the House and Senate, including the White House!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2016 5:28pm PST
textTRUMP'S WORLD: Power Thru the Eyes of a Psychopath by RG Cunningham
Since the writing of this article, Trump has promised to deport or imprison 2 to 3 million people......
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2016 8:34am PST
textTo Defeat Trump … And the Democrats, Fight for Workers Revolution by Internationalist Group
After all the media hype, suddenly it turned out that Republican Donald Trump was elected. The racist, sexist, immigrant-bashing, woman-molesting Trump would be the next CEO of the United States and commander-in-chief of U.S. imperialism. In deep shock and disbelief, tens of millions asked, how could this happen? In Muslim, Latino, African American and immigrant families there was raw fear. Soon mass protests began, with many chanting “Not My President” (as if Democrat Clinton, a certified wa...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 12:49pm PST
textU.S. Electile Dysfunction--A Tyranny of the Minority by DLi
When is 2016 equal to 1984? In what Universe does a losing candidate who receives 2 million votes less than his opponent, become the declared WINNER of an election? Is this the New Math of the Failed State of Trumpistan? By contrast, in the 2014 Syrian election, when President Bashar Assad received 9 million more votes than his opponent, Washington--as a totally illegitimate outside agitator--had the "audacity" to insist that "Assad must go!" And the CIA started shipping lethal weapons to th...
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2016 2:32am PST
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