Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monsanto vs The Environment:
NIH.gov - Major Pesticides Are More Toxic to Human Cells Than Their Declared Active Principles
"...Despite its relatively benign reputation, Roundup was among the most toxic herbicides and insecticides tested. Most importantly, 8 formulations out of 9 were up to one thousand times more toxic than their active principles. Our results challenge the relevance of the acceptable daily intake for pesticides because this norm is calculated from the toxicity of the active principle alone..."
The Only Big Bank Regulator We Have:
This American Life (NPR) - The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
"An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country. The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks..."
Buying Elections With Poisonous Profits:
Tim Dickinson: Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
"Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money..."
NIH.gov - Major Pesticides Are More Toxic to Human Cells Than Their Declared Active Principles
"...Despite its relatively benign reputation, Roundup was among the most toxic herbicides and insecticides tested. Most importantly, 8 formulations out of 9 were up to one thousand times more toxic than their active principles. Our results challenge the relevance of the acceptable daily intake for pesticides because this norm is calculated from the toxicity of the active principle alone..."
The Only Big Bank Regulator We Have:
This American Life (NPR) - The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
"An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country. The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks..."
Buying Elections With Poisonous Profits:
Tim Dickinson: Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
"Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money..."
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Abuse Of Police Power In Pursuit of Money:
Michael Sallah, Robert O’Harrow Jr., Steven Rich: Stop and Seize
"In recent years, thousands of people have had cash confiscated by police without being charged with crimes. The Post looks at the police culture behind the seizures and the people who were forced to fight the government to get their money back. Part 2: One training firm started a private intelligence-sharing network and helped shape law enforcement nationwide. Part 3: Motorists caught up in the seizures talk about the experience and the legal battles that sometimes took more than a year..."
Transportation - Energy - Environment:
Mark Kinver: Public transport holds key for clean cities, says study
"Effective urban transit systems can encourage people out of their cars and provide a cost-effective way to tackle climate change, a report has suggested. It calculated that emissions from urban transportation could be cut by more than half by 2050 and economies save in excess of US $100 trillion. The authors added it would also reduce annual premature deaths by 1.4 million. The report is being published at a UN Habitat III meeting ahead of Ban Ki-Moon's climate summit next week. The findings were published in a study by researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Co-author Michael Replogle, ITDP's managing director, said one of the most affordable but often overlooked ways to tackle emissions from human activity was to give people better access to cleaner options of getting from A to B in urban areas. 'Transportation, driven by rapid growth in car use, has been the fastest growing source of CO2 in the world,' he said. 'While every part of the global economy needs to become greener, cleaning up the traffic jams in the world's cities offers the least pain and the most gain,'..."
Michael Sallah, Robert O’Harrow Jr., Steven Rich: Stop and Seize
"In recent years, thousands of people have had cash confiscated by police without being charged with crimes. The Post looks at the police culture behind the seizures and the people who were forced to fight the government to get their money back. Part 2: One training firm started a private intelligence-sharing network and helped shape law enforcement nationwide. Part 3: Motorists caught up in the seizures talk about the experience and the legal battles that sometimes took more than a year..."
Transportation - Energy - Environment:
Mark Kinver: Public transport holds key for clean cities, says study
"Effective urban transit systems can encourage people out of their cars and provide a cost-effective way to tackle climate change, a report has suggested. It calculated that emissions from urban transportation could be cut by more than half by 2050 and economies save in excess of US $100 trillion. The authors added it would also reduce annual premature deaths by 1.4 million. The report is being published at a UN Habitat III meeting ahead of Ban Ki-Moon's climate summit next week. The findings were published in a study by researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Co-author Michael Replogle, ITDP's managing director, said one of the most affordable but often overlooked ways to tackle emissions from human activity was to give people better access to cleaner options of getting from A to B in urban areas. 'Transportation, driven by rapid growth in car use, has been the fastest growing source of CO2 in the world,' he said. 'While every part of the global economy needs to become greener, cleaning up the traffic jams in the world's cities offers the least pain and the most gain,'..."
