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  • Greta Thunberg aims to change how food is produced

    05/22/2021 4:37:18 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 106 replies
    Reuters ^ | 5-22-21 | Reuters
    Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract a trio of threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal suffering. In a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, which is believed to have originated from animals, would be reduced by changing how food was produced. "Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change," Thunberg said in the video marking the International Day of Biological Diversity.
  • Beck: Trump's Use of Nationalism, Populism 'Dangerous Combination,' 'Makings of Adolf Hitler'

    01/22/2016 10:46:43 AM PST · by springwater13 · 210 replies
    "That's why you should be freaking out," he added. "Look, we have nothing against Donald Trump as a man. We don't. It's just this is a very dangerous combination and I have been warning against it since Fox. I said keep your eyes open because it will come. The pendulum will swing the other way and it will be bad. The only other thing you have to add to that - he's talking about populism and nationalism. If you add socialism - populism, nationalism and socialism, you have the makings of Adolf Hitler. You don't somebody who is a nationalist,...
  • In pictures: Tagging walruses

    04/13/2007 10:04:40 AM PDT · by fishhound · 13 replies · 654+ views
    BBC ^ | Friday, 13 April 2007 | na
    Scientists have attached satellite tags to eight walruses in west Greenland to find out where they are migrating over the summer months.
  • The Official Friday Silliness Thread Salutes Silly Songs Part Deux

    09/08/2006 2:58:35 AM PDT · by sully777 · 279 replies · 5,548+ views
    9-08-06 | Sully777
    Blimey It's Friday--Crack A Tube!!! Monty Python Bruce Sketch TMBG: Birdhouse In Your Soul
  • REPORTING FOR BOOTY: Lohan plans "Marilynesque" troop visit with Hillary

    08/08/2006 6:05:30 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 60 replies · 3,504+ views
    NY Post ^ | August 8, 2006 | KATE SHEEHY
    Scene queen Lindsay Lohan wants to entertain the troops in Iraq à la Marilyn Monroe - together with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I've been trying to go to Iraq with Hillary Clinton for so long - Hillary was trying to work it out, but it seemed too dangerous," spouts the freckle-faced "Freaky Friday" star in an off-the-wall interview in the upcoming edition of Elle magazine. "I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did, when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just...