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Vote for Kauai sustainability video in online awards : University of Hawaiʻi System News

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hawaii.edu – Kauaʻi Community College is a finalist in the 2013 Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards and is asking people to vote for a video highlighting their sustainability efforts. The video promotes the…

Hawaii Senate Bill Sidesteps Public Input – Honolulu Civil Beat

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civilbeat.com – The same withering criticism that surfaced about a number of controversial development bills in the 2012 Hawaii Legislature has been raised about a single measure this session. “Dirty,” “unconstitu…

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Fri, April 12 2013 » environment, Hawaii » No Comments

Ecology Tues….Venture capital for environmentalists?

blogs.nature.com - Mummies aren’t the only research resources threatened in Egypt, after a tumultuous week of government protests that has resulted in a security vacuum. The Egyptian Deserts Gene Bank, a seed and pla…


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democracynow.org - Filed under D.N. in the News Cairo, Egypt—In the second day of defiance of a military curfew, more than 150,000 protesters packed into Tahrir Square Sunday to call on President Hosni Mubarak to ste…


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marketwire.com - MELFORT, SASKATCHEWAN–(Marketwire – Feb. 1, 2011) – As North Americans look for green alternatives to toxic cleaners, Greener Living Products Ltd., a small Melfort-based business, is growing along…


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oceanleadership.org - Share (Click to enlarge) Mussels can generate their own self-healing sticky material, which allows them to attach to rocks and to repair microtears caused by breaking waves and sand abrasion, but t…


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treehugger.com - Neg Norton is president of the Yellow Pages Association, a group that’s taken some hits on TreeHugger for pushing paper phone books. Today, his association is rolling out a new, national opt-out In…


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Tue, February 1 2011 » business, business news, calabash, Egypt, environment » No Comments

Is the American dream pau?

(Written by an American expat living in the European Union)

This diary offers a review of the German magazine Spiegel – November issue entitled A Superpower in Decline.

This insightful and well written, well researched article covers a variety of topics, wherein it is revealed that the actual American unemployment rate is close to 20 percent, a statistic never seen since the Great Depression. It asks the question why is America in decline? This German magazine asks why is Fox news broadcasting opinion pieces likening Pres Obama to Adolf Hitler through hate filled Tea Party announcements with agitators like Glenn Beck, who are nationalists, racists and proto-fascists according to Manfred Heningson a German political scientist.
They take advantage of the economic situations almost the way the right wing intelligentsia did in the Weimar Republic.

Go here for the full story:  The German magazine Spiegel documents the decline of the American superpower

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Sat, November 6 2010 » Banking Oligarchy, China, corporate criminality, Democratic Party, economy, environment, food security, free elections, medical cartel, military industrial complex, oil cartel, politics, public health and welfare, religious intolerance, Republican Oligarchs, Republican Party, rich vs poor, Social Security, stupidity, Teabaggers, The Great Rescession, warriors » No Comments