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  • Climate Migrants in Rural India Have Hysterectomies to Survive, Report Says

    03/19/2024 7:58:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugar cane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Feb 7. Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank. The research found more than half of the Beed women who had gone to work on sugar plantations had undergone...
  • The Sommersett Case and the Slave Trade (Benjamin Franklin)

    03/09/2021 7:40:31 PM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    Founders Online ^ | June 18–20, 1772 | Benjamin Franklin
    The Sommersett Case and the Slave Trade (1) It is said that some generous humane persons subscribed to the expence of obtaining liberty by law for Somerset the Negro.(2) It is to be wished that the same humanity may extend itself among numbers; if not to the procuring liberty for those that remain in our Colonies, at least to obtain a law for abolishing the African commerce in Slaves, and declaring the children of present Slaves free after they become of age. By a late computation made in America, it appears that there are now eight hundred and fifty thousand...
  • Biden brother's law firm touts his connection to the president, creating an early headache for administration

    01/31/2021 4:00:37 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 16 replies
    The Washington Post via SF Gate ^ | January 30, 2021 | by Annie Linskey and Alice Crites
    WASHINGTON - The Florida law firm that employs President Joe Biden's brother Frank ran a newspaper ad on Inauguration Day touting the brothers' relationship and shared values, a move that is causing an ethics headache for the administration less than two weeks after Biden took office. Biden has promised to lead a highly ethical administration, which he has pitched as a contrast to his predecessor, and has adopted unusually strict rules for those serving in his administration, although they do not necessarily apply to family members. The two-page "advertorial" ran on Jan. 20 in the South Florida-based Daily Business Review...
  • A Trip Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Sprawling, Embattled Compound in Hawaii

    03/09/2019 12:41:49 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 47 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | Saturday, March 9, 2019 | Michelle Broder Van Dyke
    Pila'a, Kauai -- Last Sunday morning, more than a dozen cars were parked along a six-foot wall built around Mark Zuckerberg's vast retreat on the northeast corner of Kauai, a small, remote Hawaiian island that's home to 70,000 people. The gate, which is almost always locked shut, was open, so you could walk right past the Facebook-blue sign that reads "PRIVATE PROPERTY Thank you for not trespassing." The lava rock wall, which Zuckerberg started building in 2016, inflamed some of his neighbors. It's built on a bluff a mile from the ocean and now stretches for nearly a mile along...
  • Last sugar plantation in Hawaii to close this year

    01/06/2016 8:23:05 PM PST · by LeoWindhorse · 30 replies
    Honolulu Star Advertiser ^ | January 6, 2016 | Andrew Gomes
    Hawaii’s last sugar plantation will wind down by the end of this year, its owner announced today. Alexander & Baldwin Inc. said it will phase out sugarcane farming on Maui at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. over the next 12 months and transition the 36,000-acre farm to a diversified crop model. A&B said many employees will be laid off starting in March as their specific functions are completed, and that about half of the 675 HC&S workers will be retained through the end of the last harvest late this year. Company leaders said the decision was reached with “great regret”...
  • Cuba Will Save The World: The Cuban Medicine Has Released First World Vaccine Against Lung Cancer

    12/10/2015 5:20:30 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 44 replies
    Pretty big news comes from the island nation known for the quality of its cigars.This news is already making big noise in the western medical world. Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. In Cuba, 20,000 people die each year of lung cancer.It is the leading cause of death in 12 of the 15 Cuban provinces. CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana's Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing late-stage lung cancers, researchers there say. CimaVax-EGF isn't a...
  • 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?

    01/14/2010 5:11:09 PM PST · by La Lydia · 66 replies · 2,509+ views
    Marguerite Laurent.com ^ | April 21, 2008 | Bill Quigley
    ...The New York Times lectured Haiti on April 18 (2008) that “Haiti, its agriculture industry in shambles, needs to better feed itself.” Unfortunately, the article did not talk at all about one of the main causes of the shortages -- the fact that the U.S. and other international financial bodies destroyed Haitian rice farmers to create a major market for the heavily subsidized rice from U.S. farmers. This is not the only cause of hunger in Haiti and other poor countries, but it is a major force. Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly all the rice it needed. What happened?...
  • Inside Bush's Energy Proposals

    01/27/2007 12:10:28 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 3 replies · 390+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | January 27, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
    President Bush last week called on the nation to invest in new technology to reduce dependence on foreign oil. The president set specific targets for the U.S., calling for a 20% reduction in gasoline use over the next 10 years. He said that a boost in the use of alternative fuels such as ethanol would account for most of that reduction, cutting gasoline use by 15%. Stricter gas-mileage standards for vehicles, he said, should lead to the other 5% reduction. The president also proposed doubling the nation's strategic-petroleum reserves to hedge against oil-supply interruptions. Increased calls for energy independence come...
  • Can Ethanol Solve The Nation's Energy Problems?

    06/17/2006 2:40:10 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 111 replies · 2,019+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 17, 2006 | Lauren Etter
    Ethanol stirred Wall Street last week when the second-largest ethanol producer went public, a sign that the corn-based fuel has become hot as gas prices soar. In its first day of trading, VeraSun Energy Corp.'s stock jumped 30% to $30 a share. Production capacity of ethanol in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1999, and the total number of ethanol plants has nearly doubled as well, to 97, with at least 30 more under construction. In April, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., bought a large stake in Pacific Ethanol Inc., which produces ethanol. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently said...
  • Biofuels are no cure-all for energy needs

    02/25/2006 7:51:26 AM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 64 replies · 1,125+ views
    Pioneer Press ^ | 2-19-06 | Edward Lotterman
    When discussing economic policies it is important to not let rhetoric overpower reality. That happened in a recent, much-reprinted New York Times article that argued "endless fields of corn in the Midwest can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol … that could end any worldwide oil shortage … and free the United States from dependence on foreign energy." The story went on to discuss how much energy goes into producing ethanol. But it failed to substantiate its lead assertion of "endless gallons of ethanol" that might "free the United States" from oil imports. The United States is an agricultural...
  • Republican Romero Won't Endorse Tauzin (R) or Melancon (D) {Louisiana House Race Dec. 4}

    11/11/2004 9:18:44 PM PST · by Theodore R. · 7 replies · 416+ views
    Romero won't endorse Tauzin or Melancon By The Associated Press NEW IBERIA -- Republican Craig Romero, who finished a strong third in the primary election for Congress to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin Jr., said he will not endorse either candidate in the Dec. 4 runoff. Romero, a conservative state senator from New Iberia, finished behind fellow Republican Billy Tauzin III and Democrat Charlie Melancon in the Nov. 2 primary. Tauzin of Houma had 32 percent of the vote and Melancon of Napoleonville had 24 percent, edging out Romero's 23 percent. Romero said he was still angry at the...
  • `Spectacular' Alzheimer's Breakthrough Possible (also spinal cord injuries)

    10/02/2004 12:27:24 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 28 replies · 1,580+ views
    Tampa Tribune ^ | October 2, 2004 | GARY HABER ghaber@tampatrib.com
    TAMPA - A team of Finnish researchers working with Tampa's Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute has developed a drug that could be a major advancement for people with spinal cord injuries and degenerative diseases including Alzheimer's. The researchers, led by Paivi Liesi, at the University of Helsinki, isolated a combination of amino acids known as tripeptide lysine-aspartic acid isoleucine. When tested in rats, the combination prevented neurotoxins from destroying neurons in the rats' brains. The therapy could slow or even reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, the researchers said. It could be a boon for the...
  • Cuban Dissident Calls for Referendum

    07/25/2004 12:51:32 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 5 replies · 476+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 7/24/04 | AP
    HAVANA -- A former political prisoner whose case was highlighted by President Bush urged Cuba's government Friday to hold a referendum on whether to change the communist island's political system. In a 10-page report called "The Cuba We Want," Leonardo Bruzon Avila and fellow dissident Carlos Rios Otero called for the referendum and laid out a plan for Cuba's transition to a multiparty, democratic system and free-market economy. The report was delivered Friday to the offices of Cuban Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo. There was no public reaction by the President Fidel Castro's government to the recommendations. The proposal echoed...