Economic Equality Improves Health, Lengthens Life
From the article: "The authors point out that the life-diminishing results of valuing growth above equality in rich societies can be seen all around us. Inequality causes shorter, unhealthier and unhappier lives; it increases the rate of teenage pregnancy, violence, obesity, imprisonment and addiction; it destroys relationships between individuals born in the same society but into different classes; and its function as a driver of consumption depletes the planet's resources."
Undersea eruptions near Tonga [PICS]
Look at these pics and you will say "Holy Smokes!"
Israeli Soldiers Report Abuses in Gaza - Los Angeles Times
This huge breakout story covers Israeli soldiers, in the wake of their action on Gaza, telling of what they did to the Palestinians of Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders, speaking to the international press, touted the classic, mostly propagandist image of the Israel Defense Force as a righteous, moral army, in response.
ABOUT AVOCADOS>Varieties>Variety Chart
Since I started going to Farmers Markets instead of the grocery store, I actually like buying produce! Over the winter, i delighted in fresh avocados from B and R Organic Farms of Kingsburg, California. They weren't the usual variety, though. They had thin skin, mostly solid meat and intense avocado flavor.
The Un-American Right Wing
From the article: "In the weeks following the election, the debate over the issue of media bias, and of whether the press was overly kind to Barack Obama, has continued to swirl. Much less attention has been paid to another, more troubling aspect of the coverage, and that’s the relentless and malevolent campaign that the right-wing media waged against the Democratic candidate. Few people who did not regularly tune in to the vast, churning combine of bellowing radio hosts, yapping bloggers, obnoxious Web sites, malicious columnists, and the slashingly partisan Fox News have any idea of just how vile and venomous were the attacks leveled at Obama."
Pam: Right Wing Lies and Distortions about Marriage Equality
Knowing the difference between civil marriage and religious marriage is key to understanding gay marriage. Eye-opening material for those who generally like gay people, but don't agree they ought to be allowed to marry.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
More accounts of astonishing human rights violations committed by the United States.
and here: http://cageprisoners.com/ and here http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project
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