FOILED BY CONGRESS, GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES TURN TO STATE BALLOTS IN BID TO END VIOLENCE. Lawmakers and organizations in several states are considering whether to place gun-related amendments such as universal background checks on state ballots as soon as the 2014 elections.Though the piecemeal approach is not ideal, activists are beginning to tire of [...]
A month of national grieving coupled with public debate over changes to federal gun regulations since December’s mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was capped on Wednesday when President Obama announced his intentions to champion gun control legislation and enact immediate reforms through executive order. Speaking at the conclusion of a review of gun laws led [...]
“THE DANGER SIGNS ARE ALL AROUND”: 2012 IS THE YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE With the end of another year comes the predictable reviews of various events and specific categories of what occurred in 2012. For scientists and weather experts, their conclusion is stark and sobering: climate change is happening “before our eyes” and at [...]
HAS THE ALEC/NRA POLITICAL GIANT BORNE BITTER FRUIT ONCE AGAIN IN CONNECTICUT? As President Obama pledges “meaningful action” to avert yet another mass killing at a U.S. school using an assault weapon, the most “meaningful” (effective) action seems to be the political muscle of ALEC which, in tandem with the NRA, has pushed through [...]
“I’M AGAINST VERY WEALTHY PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO OR INFLUENCING ELECTIONS”: SHELDON ADELSON, CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRE WHO JUST PLEDGED “LIMITLESS” FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR MITT ROMNEY’S CAMPAIGN The “poster billionaire” for those warning about the perils of unlimited political contributions from a small pool of super-rich businessmen determining the outcome of elections may very well be [...]
TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS IN THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN?—NOT SO MUCH. (IPS News) Countries including some island nations along the continents of Australia, Asia and Africa are mostly ill-prepared to protect their people from recurring tsumanis in the Ocean. In some places, governments do not bother to warn people in certain areas of impending disaster, [...]
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