News for Greens

Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam

Roger Snyder — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:29:58 +0000

[From CNET News] by Greg Sandoval Words like “scam,” “fraud,” and “arrest” filled the air during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that focused on the controversial marketing companies that allegedly dupe consumers into paying monthly fees to join online loyalty programs. Ray France, a U.S. Army veteran, testifies at a Senate hearing about how consumers are duped into [...]

The Health Care Reform: Worse than Nothing!

Roger Snyder — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:17:00 +0000

[From Tikkun Magazine] By Dr. John Geyman As we know, the House passed its health care reform bill on October 29, 2009 after many months of contentious debate. By a narrow margin, 220-215, the 1,990 page, almost 20 pound bill was passed. It laid [...]

How to Negotiate like a Democrat

Roger Snyder — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:53:07 +0000

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Speaker Pelosi: Please Stop Bullsh*ting Us on Dropping State Single Payer Amendment

Roger Snyder — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:40:11 +0000

[From Huffington Post] Miles Mogulescu It’s truly depressing to watch how quickly so-called progressive leaders in Congress, and many of their supporters in the so-called progressive movement, are abandoning all of their key promises on health care reform in the name of a health care bill that will provide massive government subsidies to private insurance and drug [...]

How do you feel most of the time about your work?

Roger Snyder — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:21 +0000

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Google Is Opening Up Your Info – To You

Roger Snyder — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:19 +0000

by Matt Hartley To make things more transparent from Google’s point of view, it is providing a Dashboard to allow us to manage the data it collects. Sadly all I found was just how easy it is to get yourself totally lost in its services. Don’t get me wrong; it did a nice job with the Dashboard. [...]

To Catch a Banker

Roger Snyder — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:30 +0000

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Drama Queen

Roger Snyder — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:31 +0000

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Female Suicide Bombers

Roger Snyder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:13 +0000

Praising the Dear One? Videos Raise Concerns Over Use of School Children To Praise the President

Roger Snyder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:10:26 +0000

[From JONATHAN TURLEY] We have been discussing the propriety of public schools putting on worshipful performances about President Barack Obama. While I voted for him and support many of his policies, it does concern me to see children enlisted in such performances, which are not the norm in American education or politics. While some extreme [...]

Terracycle makes eco-friendly speakers from orphaned snack bags

Roger Snyder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:11 +0000

[From Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women] Someone apparently doesn’t believe in the word “waste”. And you bet they are bound to have a few creative genes when they can defy such a powerful word. Well, apparently such creative genes must total much more than one can imagine, for these geniuses from TerraCycle have created the most [...]

Green Party Election Results

Roger Snyder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:07:54 +0000

Image of Green Party NY Non-offical returns for all NY Green Party Candidates. Allen Carstensen Town Supervisor, Ulysses Roxanne Marino (Dem) 693 88% Allen Carstensen (Grn) 91 12% Evergreen C. Chou City Council, 20th District, Flushing, Queens Peter Koo (GOP) 8,081 49.6% Yen Chou (Dem) 7,278 44.7 % S.J. Jung (WF) 664 4.1% Evergreen Chou (Grn) 270 1.7% Jennifer Dotson Alderperson, 1st ward, Ithaca [...]