Canadian sport spreading across US - mainstream media ignores pressure form curling blogs. Big voter bloc ignored? Could it decide the election?
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]]> Standing up to her critics, she veered off script, warning: "You know, they say the difference between a hockey mum and a pit bull? Lipstick."
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]]> The Nowtopian movement embodies a growing minority seeking emancipation from the treadmill of consumerism and overwork. Acting locally in the face of unfolding global catastrophes, friends and neighbors are redesigning many of the crucial technological
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]]> Capitalism is a growth machine. What it really cares about is earning a profit and reinvesting a large share of that and growing continually. Profits can be enhanced if the companies are not paying for the cost of their environmental destruction—so they
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]]> They did not know that she took trips as the mayor of Wasilla to beg for earmarks. They did not know that she told a television interviewer this summer that she did not fully understand what it is that a vice president does.

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]]> The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich.
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]]> Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. ..Stevens was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption.
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]]> Early in her tenure as mayor, the city council threatened to recall her over accusations that she fired the city's police chief, Irl Stambaugh, and the library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, without warning. Censoring the library ...
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]]> At the end of the day, nothing changes the fact that this is actually more of the same from the GOP -- more political opportunism and clever gamesmanship for the sake of achieving the goal of power.
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]]> As a purely political matter, McCain's choice of Palin will overshadow this week's convention... the media will rightly be doing their job, trying to figure out who Palin is. Palin, not Obama, will be the issue, in a way that Romney...would not have been
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]]> Now, after yrs of litigation that produced the largest water-rights settlement ever in Indian country, the Pima are getting some of their water back. Will they now go back to natural farming & vegies to fight the diabetes >1/2 the tribe suffers from?
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]]> No matter who gets elected, we know that no real change (including peace) will happen without fundamentally reforming how politics gets conducted.

We need non-partisan redistricting, open primaries, and more voter-friendly voter registration laws.
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]]> Lawmakers were shocked at how inappropriate that
Todd Palin was there and proceeded to sit through the entire meeting
, with Governor Sarah Palin.
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]]> LOL
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]]> Nobody asked to see your ID at the grocery store when you wrote a check.
Everybody picked up hitchikers
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]]> "Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits," Obama said, "and people's children are especially off limits. "This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no releva
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]]> Want to get rid of your goldfish? Swiss owners who have been flushing them down the toilet - still alive - must now find other methods since strict, new animal protection laws took effect today.

Instead, a fish must be first knocked out and then killed
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]]> Earth Activist Training Sustainable Skills Bus has been seized without cause by the police. The Permibus was relocating from the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis, where they had spent the day teaching Urban Permaculture, to a friend's house in Saint Paul for
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]]> Burmeister, an Iraq War veteran who sustained injuries from a roadside bomb attack was ordered to return to Iraq despite his injuries. He chose Canada as refuge from redeployment because he would not take part in what he deemed an unjustified and unethica
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]]> In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifest
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]]> When it comes to defending Alaska's right to shoot wolves, Sarah Palin is not afraid to pull the trigger. Just ask Rep. George Miller, who introduced federal legislation last year to end Alaska's policy of allowing people to shoot wolves from airplanes.
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]]> Teenagers and young adults from neighborhoods in East and West Oakland are hired for the summer to glean fruit from backyard trees, largely in the Dimond, Laurel and Fruitvale neighborhoods, if residents don't have the inclination to do so themselves.
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]]> A notably anti-environmental regulation & protection aide to Big Dick has been proposed for a top Energy Department slot. The disrespect & destruction for the well-being of the earth & its creatures, including us, continues. Get to know F. Chase Hutto III
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]]> Both presidential candidates recently allowed themselves to be interrogated about their faith and beliefs by an evangelical minister. WHY?
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]]> Great info from the Sierra Club on drilling for oil - the facts, the consequences and how it's not a panacea for prices at the pump.
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]]> “Is this a joke?” That seemed to be the question du jour when my phone started ringing off the hook at 6:45am here in Alaska. I mean, we’re sort of excited that our humble state has gotten some kind of national ‘nod’….but seriously? Photo: Wasila, AK
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]]> China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising a prewar agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at the Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday.
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]]> McCain says "Drill here, drill now!" to reduce the price of gas, but every time the price of oil goes up, more jobs return from China, and first to the basic heavy industries like steel. Why does he hate the rust belt states? Or, for that matter, Mexico?
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]]> Watching Sarah Palin accept the Republican nomination for vice president, all I could think was that I am so grateful my mother did not run for president or VP while I was a baby.
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]]> After John McCain used a Van Halen song during his big speech earlier today, the band wants to make to make one thing clear -- they're not running with McCain. Van Halen management tells us the band had no idea McCain was planning on using "Right Now"
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]]> According to the Alaska TV news station KTUU where Gov. Palin “appeared occasionally as a television sportscaster,” Palin was so determined to defeat a Clean Water ballot measure this summer that she broke the law to oppose it:
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]]> If there is serious damage in the Gulf Coast, images of Republicans partying in Minneapolis-St. Paul could be an embarrassing reminder of the Bush administration's delayed response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
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]]> “I have known and worked with Sarah for over a decade - from her service as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in her role as president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors, and most recently as our Governor. ....
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]]> Is John McCain "mentally fit" to be president? Palin: What Exactly Does The VP Do Everyday?
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]]> "Our hope is that we can get an expert in to take a look at the dogs, to see if they can be rehabilitated, and if so place them in good homes so they don't have to be killed," said Tousaw.


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]]> Los vecinos de Abasto intentan localizar a "China", el animal que rescató y cobijó a un recién nacido abandonado
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]]> Animal rights activists are claiming responsibility for releasing approximately 6,000 mink from a fur farm in Aldergrove, B.C., over the weekend.


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]]> Climate change has made Senator Barack Obama's list of "threats of the 21st century" alongside terrorism and nuclear proliferation, poverty, genocide, and disease.
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]]> Jan Allegretti, a Ukiah author, holistic animal care consultant and CARE Mendocino member, has produced several USDA inspection reports from 2004 through 2007 detailing various infractions the department had noted for the circus
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]]> It would loosely tie tens of billions of dollars in state and federal transportation subsidies to cities’ and counties’ compliance with efforts to slow the inexorable increase in driving. The goal is to encourage housing
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]]> In its rebuke of fast food, big agribusiness and global distribution and its embrace of local products, biological diversity, sustainability and the sensual delights of the table, food is a touchstone for everything from energy policy and net-roots
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]]> SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.
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]]> TOTOPE, Ghana - The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is just a track across the sand.


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]]> What does it say about a society that when their Democratic National Convention begins and none of the major TV stations are airing it during prime time in order to educate the public?
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]]> This is a great local effort in West Virginia fighting against coal and for wind power - you can help in their efforts!
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]]> Written by Jennifer Lance
Just like many other products designed for children we have discovered, there are potential health hazards on the playground. Play sand, contains carcinogenic dust, etc...
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