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Guernica / Food Among the Ruins

Rated Nov 19 • 8 reviews • agriculture, usa, diet, society, futurist • guernicamag.com

Detroit, the country�s most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm. Mark Dowie�s immodest proposal...
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Jail instead of rehab: Not just for grownups anymore |...

Rated Jun 02 2009 • 1 review • crime, usa, society, prisons, fighting dogs • smirkingchimp.com

From the page: "The United States is a nation of prisoners. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. According to the National Institute of Corrections, some 0.7 percent of Americans are incarcerated. In fact, almost 50% of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons, even though the U.S. comprises only 5% of the world's population. Prison overcrowding is the status quo."

In the same country there is a law prohibing the breeding of dogs to be fighting dogs. Is this similar to the USAs approach to inprisonment?
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Insurance Industry is Simply a Parasite on the US Health...

Rated Jun 02 2009 • 5 reviews • health, insurance, usa • smirkingchimp.com

From the page: "Health insurance companies add zero value to the delivery of health care. Indeed, they are a significant cost factor that sucks up, according to some estimates such as one by the organization Physicians for a National Health Program, as much as 31 percent of every dollar spent on medical services (a percentage that has been rising steadily year after year).

Insurance companies are damaging in more ways than simply cost, though."

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Portland: Quest for the Livable City

Rated May 10 2009 • 1 review • usa, town planning, community, land use, portland • youtube.com

Very good film (extract?) about tight land use boundary between urban Portland, and agricultural and other wide open space land uses.

Hooray!
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American Civil Liberties Union : Office of Legal Counsel...

Rated Apr 24 2009 • 8 reviews • politics, usa, torture, millitary • aclu.org

On April 16, 2009, the Department of Justice released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture.
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Earthjustice: Campaign Unavailable

Rated Apr 23 2009 • 1 review • usa, pollution, mercury, public health, epa • earthjustice.org

American website writes:

Facts about cement kilns and mercury:

* Cement kilns are some of the biggest mercury polluters in the country.
* For over a decade, these big polluters have gotten a free pass to pollute, and it's time they clean up their act.
* There is technology available right now that cement kilns can install will limit mercury, particulate matter, hydrochloric acid and benzene (a known carcinogen) pollution immediately.
* Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin that can impair a child's ability to walk, talk, read, write and learn. Mercury also interferes with the brain and nervous system and can affect blood pressure, fertility, can cause memory loss and tremors.
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Rated Apr 21 2009 • 1 review • agriculture, csa, usa, horticulture, food • bakingfarmer.com

Tennessee based community supported agriculture grower
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Avalon Farms Homegrown | Locally grown produce delivered...

Rated Apr 21 2009 • 1 review • cooking, csa, usa, food • avalonfarmshomegrown.net

Michigan based Community Supported Agriculture producer.
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Casualty Notification Officer

Rated Apr 11 2009 • 4 reviews • usa, millitarism • army.mil

"NOTIFICATION GUIDE Casualty Notification Officer"
US Millitary/
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http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID={F36FF16C-B584-44...

Rated Mar 22 2009 • 1 review • middle east, submarine, usa, persian gulf, millitarism • plenglish.com

Abu Dhabi, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) Experts in military and environmental affairs affirmed Saturday there is great concern over security and possible ecological damage in the Persian Gulf, after a US ship and a submarine clashed recently apparently due to negligence.
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