Monday, November 21, 2011

Time to Test Corporate Leaders to Weed out Psychopaths

By Mitchell Anderson, Today, TheTyee.ca
Shark-like, they rise fast but risk killing the world economy, concludes a business professor. Details here.

Broadcaster Bill Moyers "Nailed" the Motivation Behind the Occupy Movement - Even Before it Began! (Video)

ACTION ALERT - URGENT, PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!

Uganda's Protected Mabira Rainforest Threatened Again by Sugar Production

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet - November 21, 2011

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Public Happy Face on Ottawa's Cuts Smeared by Official's Private Memo

Mike De Souza - Vancouver Sun - Nov. 20-'11
OTTAWA — A senior Environment Canada bureaucrat who publicly defended the federal government’s plans to slash funding and eliminate “redundancy” within the country’s ozone monitoring programs, privately approved a briefing note that concluded there was no duplication in its network, Postmedia News has learned. Read more here.

PLT: It is truly a sad day when a Prime Minister can instil such fear in his public servants that they feel compelled to tell a different story in public than in private, just to keep their jobs! 

Friday, November 18, 2011

Extreme Weather to Worsen With Climate Change-IPCC

Reuters - Nov 18-'11
More heat waves, heavier rains, worse cyclones likely. Details here.

Courtesy of Common Dreams

Common Infections Will be 'Untreatable' if Antibiotic Misuse Continues

Ecologist - Nov 19  Scientists issue new warning as campaigners call for stronger controls on excessive use in intensive farming. Details here.