Category: Politics

20 Women For Darfur (TWFD), a coalition of 20 women from various sectors of the entertainment field, is teaming up with the Darfur Action Committee at UCLA (DAC) for A Cup Of Coffee For Darfur. In recognition of Global Days For Darfur, TWFD and DAC are asking students, faculty and local citizens to donate the cost of at least one cup of coffee to The International Rescue Committee. The donations will provide crucial aid to refugees and displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan.

A market research report conducted by Vizu Corporation and Green Home Inc. has confirmed that people are convinced the global warming phenomenon exists (70%) and is important (74%). However, the public remains unsure of the cause of global warming, and is debating whether the culprit is human behavior (26%), natural climate cycles (26%) or some combination of the two (25%).

With 30% of America's children at risk for obesity and two-thirds of their parents already overweight; with only 29% of mothers nursing at six months postpartum; and with breastfeeding in public still considered criminal in some corners of the U.S.; National Action Against Obesity demands Suave Shampoo pull its anti-breastfeeding TV ad.

(Radio Free Asia) Labrang, a large and historically important Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China's central Gansu province, is finding its activities and enrollment increasingly restricted by Chinese policy.

"Year by year, the practice of teaching and studying of the Dharma [the Buddhist religion] is deteriorating. It's not getting better," Jigme Gyatso, a monk living at Labrang, told RFA's Tibetan service.

An increasing number of Americans have become concerned with whether or not electronic machines accurately record and count votes. To require voter-verified permanent paper ballots and increase voter confidence and accessibility, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida have sponsored virtually identical bills (HR811 and S559) that are intended to correct some of the significant, if unintended consequences of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

As anyone of my generation, or especially the generation preceding, can tell you, John Wayne was the most popular cowboy star of all time. In his day, the western was the de facto leader of all the film genres, loved by nearly everyone. The film studios churned-out "B" westerns weekly, with the likes of singing cowboys Roy Rogers or Gene Autry, and many "A" pics, like High Noon or Shane became bone fide classics.

Independent market research firm, The MindClick Group, today released the findings of a new study detailing consumer attitudes toward climate change: more than 60 percent of U.S. consumers hold government and big business directly accountable for global warming. The MindClick Consumer Global Warming Monitor (GWM) is a quarterly examination of how concern for global warming is affecting U.S. consumers' purchase habits, perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. The study, which polled 532 U.S. consumers online, was conducted in January 2007 using data collection software and U.S. consumer panels from GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.) based in Seattle, Wash. Designed to provide business leaders with an unbiased point-of-view of the American consumer, MindClick's groundbreaking GWM has identified five distinct market segments that explain U.S. attitudes and opinions about global warming as follows:

The best way for Israel to stop terrorist attacks in its territory is by first ceasing its occupation of all Arab land it captured in the 1967 War which, admittedly, Israel did out of self-defense. Israel was correct in defending itself.

Coco Tralla LLC announces a seven book series that claims to stop accelerated global warming, cease non-stop wars and thwart future nuclear fallout by the most powerful industrial military complex in the world. Recently released, Book One, Light Vision, does not contain the controversial findings of Book Two, Energy Grid. (Book One is a novel about sex magick and Italian witches in Rome, Italy.) Strange as it may seem, according to Coco, Book One purposefully does not document findings about the grid or invisible warfare because, prior to the release of Book Two, she aims to position herself as a leader in increasing public awareness and therefore circumvent the destructive path of the world's largest industrial military complex.

Various forms of media deserving to gain high level of independence for the reformist mechanism are in fact intimidated by an insidious strategy of the government that now is being viewed as commentary critical of the authorities as an attack on the national interest in Nepal. With the onset of the conflict situation in this country, reporters frequently find their access to state and other indigenous information blocked in the name of flimsy security grounds.