If you use your mansion as a chicken coop, it will soon be good for nothing else. So beware how you use your precious right of free speech.
Time For US Govt. To Stop Junk Mail (tags)
US taxpayers have subsidized with hundreds of billions of dollars the junk mail ad industry whose absurdly low rates allow them to clog landfills, kill trillions of trees, cause global heating, and violate citizen privacy.
New research links fast food consumption with depression.
Venice Boardwalk new ordinances NEED your feedback too ! (tags)
LA City Parks Dept had a meeting to draft or discuss a new ordinance about changing the crass commercial junk being sold on Venice Beach. But who could find out where or when the meeting was held ? Could it be intentional that the outreach was limited or non existent even to those who WANTED to attend, to comment, to question their tax-paid decision-makers?
Fruit Loops, Leninism, and Lunacy (tags)
This article is a critique of the way the food industry in the US places ads for unhealthy products on children''s TV programs.
"Tim Geithner made clear the US government does not plan any breach with disaster capitalism....No wonder Wall Street cheers. New life is breathed into speculation at state expense with junk securities.."
JUNK boat set sail Sunday (tags)
Algalita Foundation JUNK boat made of 150000 recycled bottles set sail for Hawaii to raise awareness of pollution from plastics and water bottle waste in the worlds oceans.
PHILIPPINES: Junk the Toxic Deal with Japan! Junk JPEPA! (tags)
With the battle shifting to the Upper House, AKBAYAN Partylist today trooped to the Senate to call for the junking of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). “Japan may have done it once, but we will not allow the dumping of toxic wastes in the country again”, the group said referring to the 1999 incident, when 122 containers declared as “recyclable paper” (which turned out to be clinical wastes) arrived at the Port of Manila.
The Stressed New Generation (tags)
Adults have fear of the world because they don't know how to deal with that world.. The traps are now different. They look very frightening for those over 59 because there ia a new communication system that most elders can no longer grasp.
Scrounging for Freedom, circa 1999.
BTL:Food Industry Pushing Junk Food a Prime Contributor to Obesity Crisis (tags)
Interview with Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Stop big corporations from brainwashing more children! (tags)
No more big corporations peddling their junk food and other crap to our kids!
"Think globally, recycle locally." Freecycle Network is open to all individuals who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself! One constraint: everything posted must be free.
Liberia, Junk Bonds, and Rubber (tags)
FROM FIRESTONE TO JUNK BONDS: CAPITALIST PLUNDER LURKS BEHIND LIBERIA'S CHAOS
ALL Indy Media Center Web Sites Need Monitoring for Junk Postings (tags)
Junk and nonsense stories are being posted on many of the IMC web sites. Such postings should be watched for and removed ASAP.