Tag: devastating
Fuel shortage forces UN to halt Gaza food aid
What is happening in Gaza right now? "The UN is to halt food handouts for up to 800,000 Palestinians from tomorrow because of a severe fuel shortage in Gaza brought on by an Israeli economic blockade.John Ging, the director of operations in Gaza for the UN Relief and Works...
Trailer Park Boys' 'Ricky' Tells CRTC he prefers ...
Well, the cable companies were warned it would happen, and now it has. Actors, production companies and broadcasters from across Canada are calling on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission...
Tornado Rips Through Little Rock, Ark., Damaging ...
UPDATE (April 4 a.m.): Some schools in Arkansas are closed due to the storms. Injury reports aren't yet completed.The storm system continues to move east.If you live in an area that has tornadoes, please take a...
Monsanto Meets Resistance in Mexico
"After 14 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) devastating effects on the majority of Mexican farmers, Mexico’s food system now faces another serious threat: Genetically Modified (GM) corn. Illegally planted and unknowingly imported since the...
52 Palestinians dead in Gaza
Nine children are among the 52 Palestinians dead in Gaza today as the pressure continues to mount in Tel Aviv for a wider invasion of the territory.Fighting began on Wednesday and 140 rockets have been fired at...
Is Lawrence Lessig running for Congress?
I've met Lessig a few times. He'd have my vote."I recently wrote a post praising Lawrence Lessig, and it looks as though he is taking the idea of running for Congress very seriously. He took a courtly,...
Three Years after the Tsunami: Helping Children S...
It's good to know that help reached the affected areas of the devastating tsunami . It's just sad to think that it is sometimes a major disaster with lots of deaths that is needed before people react and unfortunately people tends to forget after a while...
Cyclone death toll soars to 1,000
"More than 1,000 people have died in Bangladesh after a devastating tropical cyclone ripped through the western coast of the country, and the toll is expected to rise"
Ash blankets town near Indonesian volcano
""We have checked with the volcano monitoring team, and they say that the ash does not come from Kelud, but from Semeru," he told AFP, referring to a volcano about 90 kilometres (55 miles) away.
Semeru has been spewing ash on and off for months, scientists saying that the...
Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics ...
Ron Rosenbaum is sitting on a ticking time bomb of a story that is about to break......"So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that “everyone knows” The LA Times was sitting on a...
Chocolate Factory Meltdown
The UK city port of Bristol has over two hundred years of chocolate history first with Frys and now Cadbury which currently employs 500 people at its Bristol chocolate plant. Cadbury has announced proposals to...
North American Report: Hundreds of Sleeper Cells ...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBefore you head to your "Dale Gribble" (King of the Hill) style underground bunker and don a flak jacket while you peer suspiciously at your next door...
General Motors paralysed by strike
"Disgruntled staff streamed out of General Motors factories across the US yesterday as the country's main car workers' union called a nationwide strike in a protest over healthcare benefits and job security.
The...
CFMEU and ACF unite for action on climate change
"Date: 11-Sep-2007
In a rare convergence of interests, the mining union and environmentalists have collaborated to call for urgent Government action on climate change.
With climate change set to be a critical federal election campaign issue, the CFMEU Mining and Energy...
Alex the Parrot dies in research lab
Alex, an African Grey parrot who participated in thirty years of experiments in avian language and cognition, has just died in the lab in which he lived. The cause of death is unknown.Because of Alex's high-level...
