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2.27.2012

Detained Tibetans stage hunger strike in Nepal Reuters

Detained Tibetans stage hunger strike in Nepal

Reuters -
By Gopal Sharma | KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Thirteen Tibetans, detained last week for protesting against China in front of the United Nations office in Nepal, started an indefinite hunger strike on Monday to press for their release, the president of the ...
Tibetans' Hunger Strike at United Nations Enters Day Three

2.26.2012

Steven Santiago Dies After Saving Drunken Filmmaker from SI RailwayDNAinfo

Good Samaritan injured while helping NY man dies

Wall Street Journal -
AP NEW YORK - A 39-year-old man who was critically injured after being struck by a train while attempting to help a drunken man off the tracks on Staten Island has died.
Steven Santiago Dies After Saving Filmmaker from SI Railway
Good Samaritan dies after heroic actions
Heroic straphanger dies from injuries to his head

Santorum Calls for Sharia Law, Fundamentalist style: Santorum: Church/state separation not absolute CBS News

Santorum: Church/state separation not absolute

CBS News -
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum continued to make controversial statements Sunday. The latest is about the separation of church and state, which Santorum says prohibits people of faith from the "public square.

Obama crooning, GOP gone wild Chicago Sun-Times

Obama crooning, GOP gone wild

Chicago Sun-Times -
Barack Obama is singing and swinging. While the president still faces a long, hard slog to a November re-election victory, the increasingly fractious Republican nominating contest must be music to his ears.

GOD BLESS YOU LUCY: Actress Lucy Lawless Arrested in Oil-Ship Protest ABC


Actress Lucy Lawless Arrested in Oil-Ship Protest

ABC News - ‎5 minutes ago‎
Police have arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace environmental activists after the group spent four days protesting aboard an oil-drilling ship docked in New Zealand. Police on Monday removed the group from their perch atop a 174-foot ...

'Xena' actress arrested in New Zealand oil protest

AFP - ‎7 minutes ago‎
WELLINGTON — "Xena: Warrior Princess" actress Lucy Lawless was arrested in New Zealand Monday after occupying an oil-drilling ship for three days to protest plans to search for oil off Alaska, Greenpeace said. Police climbed a 53-metre (175-foot) ...

Warrior princess Xena arrested

Herald Sun - ‎15 minutes ago‎
THE occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell ship by six Greenpeace activists - including actor Lucy Lawless - ended today after police climbed the ship's drilling tower and arrested the group, a police spokeswoman said. "The protesters are all under arrest ...

Lucy Lawless arrested after Shell oil protest ends

Stuff.co.nz - ‎25 minutes ago‎
Actress Lucy Lawless and five other Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after spending four days on board the Noble Discoverer, which was due to travel to the Arctic in exploration of oil. Lawless and a group of Greenpeace activists scaled the ...

ROBERT CHARLES/Taranaki Daily News ROBERT CHARLES/Taranaki Daily News ROBERT ...

Stuff.co.nz - ‎40 minutes ago‎
DOING IT FOR THE KIDS: Lucy Lawless says she wants to save the Arctic from drilling. Actress Lucy Lawless and five other Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after spending four days on board the Noble Discoverer, which was due to travel to the ...

Greenpeace Activists, Including Lucy Lawless, Arrested After New Zealand ...

Fox Business - ‎1 hour ago‎
WELLINGTON – The occupation of an Arctic-bound Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) drillship by six Greenpeace activists--including actor Lucy Lawless--ended Monday in New Zealand after police climbed the ship's drilling tower and arrested the group, ...

Lucy Lawless group ends oil ship protest

Ninemsn - ‎1 hour ago‎
Six Greenpeace protesters have been arrested in New Zealand after agreeing to end their occupation of a Shell-contracted oil exploration ship at Port Taranaki. The protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, came down from the 53-metre drilling tower ...

Greenpeace ship protesters arrested

TVNZ - ‎1 hour ago‎
Police have climbed the drilling tower of a ship at Port Taranaki and arrested six protesters. The protesters, including actor Lucy Lawless, had spent a third night on the drilling tower of the Noble Discoverer. Police said at 11am that they had sent ...

Lucy Lawless, fellow protesters abandon ship

NEWS.com.au - ‎1 hour ago‎
SIX Greenpeace protesters in New Zealand have ended their occupation of a Shell-contracted oil exploration ship. The protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, came down from the 53-metre drilling tower aboard the Noble Discoverer today.

Police arrest oil ship protesters

New Zealand Herald - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Herald Online staff and Jeremy Olds Officers scaled the vessel's drilling tower and arrested the protesters, which included actress Lucy Lawless, who have been there since late last week. The Noble Discoverer was meant to leave Port Taranaki over ...

CONSERVATIVE GEORGE WILL RIPS GOP’S POLITICIZATION OF GAS PRICES AS ‘ECONOMIC NONSENSE’ tpg.org

Pr. Obama's Clinically Depressed by News - Brewer won't attend Obama dinner for governors USA TODAY

Brewer won't attend Obama dinner for governors

USA TODAY -
By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama is hosting a White House dinner tonight for the nation's governors, but one prominent state executive won't be there.

Pedophile Guy, Pope tells infertile couples to shun artificial procreation USA TODAY

Huh? Santorum: Obama is 'a snob' because he wants 'everybody in America to go to ... Washington Post (blog) - ‎49 minutes ago‎

Democratic governors: Republicans returning to 'dark ages' Politico

Democratic governors: Republicans returning to 'dark ages'

Politico -
The nation's Democratic governors are gleeful at the heavy play social issues are suddenly getting in the Republican presidential primary.

Warrior: Lucy Lawless and protesters spend third night aboard oil drilling ship NEWS.com.au


Lawless protesters prepare for third night

The Australian - ‎6 hours ago‎
A group of protesters on board a Shell-contracted oil-drilling ship in Taranaki, New Zealand, are preparing for a third night on board but their water is running low. The protesters, including TV actor Lucy Lawless, boarded the Arctic-bound Noble ...

Warrior: Lucy Lawless and protesters spend third night aboard oil drilling ship

NEWS.com.au - ‎6 hours ago‎
Actress Lucy Lawless is spending her third night on board an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic with a group of protesters. Picture: Greenpeace Source: AP Source: AP A group of protesters on board a Shell-contracted oil-drilling ship in Taranaki, ...

'Guantanamo' tactics won't put off Greenpeace protesters

New Zealand Herald - ‎6 hours ago‎
By Jeremy Olds Greenpeace protesters say "Guantanamo" style tactics will not bring them down from a tower aboard a Shell ship bound for the Arctic. The Noble Discoverer was meant to depart Port Taranaki this weekend on a 6000 nautical mile journey to ...

Protesters weather second night on ship

TVNZ - ‎13 hours ago‎
Five Greenpeace protesters and actor Lucy Lawless have spent a second night aboard the oil drilling ship the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki. The protesters are on the drilling tower of the vessel, and say that they have used locks on the access ...

Lawless foregoes comforts to fight oil drilling

New Zealand Herald - ‎19 hours ago‎
By Kirsty Wynn Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace activists protesting on board a Shell-contracted oil drillship in Port Taranaki. Photo / Greenpeace Eco-princess Lucy Lawless has given up home comforts for a second night up a gusty tower with no place to ...

2.25.2012

Shoot the journalists: Syria's lesson from the Arab spring The Guardian

Shoot the journalists: Syria's lesson from the Arab spring

The Guardian -
The media centre in the Homs suburb of Baba Amr is nothing more than a family house. Once it had four storeys and a satellite dish on the roof.

WWII Vet Says Nobody Helped After He Was Carjacked NPR

WWII Vet Says Nobody Helped After He Was Carjacked

NPR -
by AP DETROIT (AP) - A World War II veteran said nobody helped him in the minutes after he was attacked and carjacked during daylight at a busy Detroit gas station and he had to crawl across a concrete parking lot to get help.
86-Year-Old Vet Injured during Carjacking at

Obama's dream: To run against SantorumWashington Post

Obama's Christian Appology to Muslims Infuriates the GOPig Satan Crowd newsok.com

Santorum: Afghan apology shows Obama 'weakness'

NewsOK.com -
Republican president candidate Rick Santorum accused President Obama of "showing weakness" in responding to the killings of US servicemen by their Afghan military allies.

UVA Football Player Protests Unequal Staff Wages With Hunger Strike News One

UVA Football Player Protests Unequal Staff Wages With Hunger Strike

News One -
In a political move not often seen from college athletes, University of Virginia football player, Joseph Williams, has joined the Living Wage Campaign in a campus hunger strike “to protest the economic and social injustices perpetrated by the UVa ...

Xena (her) Lucy Lawless on Arrest Warning: 'We have no choice but to hold our ground.' (details)

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/protester-pulled-off-oil-drilling-ship-and-arrested-4742115



  1. Greenpeace protester arrested


    Courier Mail - 2 hours ago
    Arrested: A protester was arrested after leaving a Shell-contracted ... Seven protesters, including actor Lucy Lawless, boarded the Arctic bound ship, ...


  2. Xena's Lucy Lawless spends night with protesters in New Zealand


    Bikya Masr - 8 hours ago
    SYDNEY: In protest against oil giant Shell's efforts to drill oil off the Alaskan coast, television star of Xena: Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless spent the ...


  3. Oil-drilling ship protester arrested upon pulling out


    TVNZ - 8 hours ago
    Earlier today actor Lucy Lawless and the other protesters on-board were told by ... Lawless said, "Shell has said that they are very disappointed with ...


  4. Drill ship protestor arrested


    Radio New Zealand - 9 hours ago
    Five Greenpeace activists and the actor Lucy Lawless remain in occupation of an ... Shell says it is good that he has come down, and looks forward to other ...


  5. Activists Vow to Continue Arctic Drill Ship Occupation


    Scoop.co.nz (press release) - 9 hours ago
    Auckland, 25 February 2012 — Actor Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace New Zealand activists this afternoon vowed to continue their occupation of Arctic bound Shell ...


  6. Protestors will occupy ship a third day


    Newstalk ZB - 10 hours ago
    Lucy Lawless says overnight 95 thousand people have written to Shell, to ask boss Peter Voser to cancel its plans to open up the Arctic to oil drilling.


  7. One gone, five remain on ship with Lawless


    3News NZ - 10 hours ago
    Actress Lucy Lawless and five other protesters remain onboard as the ship prepares ... and are demanding Shell cancel the ship's exploration to the Arctic.


  8. One arrested in Lawless' Greenpeace protest


    Manawatu Standard - 10 hours ago
    ATTENTION-GRABBING: Greenpeace protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, boarded the Noble Discoverer at Port Taranaki on Friday.


  9. Second activist in custody


    Stuff.co.nz - 11 hours ago
    ... from Port Taranaki by police after he came down from the Shell drill ship. ... including actress Lucy Lawless, were still very committed to the cause.


  10. 'Xena', Greenpeace activists climb oil-drilling ship in protest


    Hamilton Spectator - 14 hours ago
    WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND Television actress Lucy Lawless climbed aboard an ... The ship is chartered by oil company Shell. Shona Geary, the company's New ...

'Unviolent Warfare is Accelerating Humane Learning, Teaching a Lesson, by Rights.' Loving (no detail, yet)


WATCH IT. SHARE IT. NOW. High-School Student Tells Heartland Institute To Stop Climate Denial Curriculum

2.24.2012

Ahhh. Of, by and for the People: Romney's Wealth Emerges as Subtext in 'Cadillac' Remark BusinessWeek

Romney's Wealth Emerges as Subtext in 'Cadillac' Remark

BusinessWeek -
By Brian Faler (Updates with comment from analyst Duffy in sixth paragraph. For more on the 2012 campaign, see {ELECT }.) Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney is a wealthy man, as he keeps reminding voters, even if it's unintentional.
Mitt Romney's economic speech falls flat at near-empty stadium

Obama Peace Maker: Obama: It's time for the killing of Syrian citizens to end Jerusalem Post

Obama: It's time for the killing of Syrian citizens to end

Jerusalem Post -
By REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The international community must band together in pressuring Syrian leader Bashar Assad to step down and put and end to the killing of Syrian citizens, US President Barack Obama said on Friday. His comments came as rescue ...
Obama: Every tool eyed to stop slaughter in Syria
Obama says US will keep up pressure on Syria's Assad to stop 'slaughter' of ...

Former Reagan advisor Arthur Laffer says to tax pollution, not income The Tennessean

Former Reagan advisor Arthur Laffer says to tax pollution, not income

The Tennessean -
But he sees a backwards system that imposes taxes on things people want more of: income and jobs. At the same time, the United States allows something people want less of - carbon dioxide pollution - to be emitted without penalty.

Gates says future begins with revolution in agricultural productivity Western Farm Press

Gates says future begins with revolution in agricultural productivity

Western Farm Press -
Bill Gates: More productive small farmers are the key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals on hunger and poverty. If you care about the poorest, you care about agriculture.

Netanyahu is demolishing the strategic alliance with US Haaretz

Netanyahu is demolishing the strategic alliance with US

Haaretz -
The Netanyahu government had 20 months to set up an excellent firefighting service in advance of the planned war, but did nothing.

Israeli Gestapo Murders with Impunity: 'Palestinian dies after Temple Mount Clashes' Jerusalem Post

'Palestinian dies after Temple Mount Clashes'

Jerusalem Post -
COM STAFF 02/24/2012 21:31 Protester dies in hospital after police shoot him in chest, 5 other Palestinians injured,

President Obama's millionaire tax proposal is popular: poll New York Daily News

President Obama's millionaire tax proposal is popular: poll

New York Daily News -
By AP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Most people like President Barack Obama's proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes.

2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year in Decades, NASA Finds LiveScience.com

2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year in Decades, NASA Finds

LiveScience.com -
Average temperatures around the globe in 2011 were 0.92 degrees Fahrenheit (0.51 degrees Celsius) warmer than the baseline in the mid-20th century.

Putin Says Iran Nuclear-Weapons Ability Would Risk Stability BusinessWeek

Putin Says Iran Nuclear-Weapons Ability Would Risk Stability

BusinessWeek -
24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia opposes Iran developing nuclear-weapons capability because it would endanger global stability, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

'Any second the Global Neediest are not Center of our Existance we are NOT aLive, tho we exist.' SL (detail elsewhere throughout this site)


Xena (yes her) Lawless LIVE Greenpeace Occupy NZ Shell Ship

Xena Lucy Lawless - New Zeeland - Occupy Shell Drilling Platform youtube

Xena the Warrior Princess (YES, that one, now a mom) —Occupies a Shell Oil Drilling Ship

Lawless and other Greenpeace volunteers climbed the Noble Discoverer's 174-foot oil derrick to stop it from sailing to Alaska.

  1. "Deep-sea oil drilling is bad enough, but venturing into the Arctic, one of the most magical places on the planet, is going too far,"
    21 hours ago TVNZ
    Lucy Lawless
  2. Lucy Lawless Climbs Noble Discoverer Oil-Drilling Ship For ...


    Huffington Post - 3 hours ago
    WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Television actress Lucy Lawless climbed aboard an oil-drilling ship Friday in New Zealand, joining six Greenpeace activists ...
    Blog: Actress Lucy Lawless boards ship to protest Arctic oil drillingmsnbc.com (blog)
    Lucy Lawless to spend night on-board oil shipTVNZ
    New Zealand Herald - Mother Jones
    all 345 news articles »

    New York Daily News
  3. Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship


    Newsday - 18 hours ago
    Business Newsday > News > Nation Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship Originally published: February 23, 2012 6:16 PM Updated: February 23, ...

    Newsday
  4. ROLL CALL: Lucy Lawless Using 'Xena' War Cries To Save The Environment


    Access Hollywood - 18 minutes ago
    Caption Lucy Lawless attends the STARZ Original Series 'Spartacus: Vengeance' Premiere Event at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome, Hollywood, on January 18, ...

    Access Hollywood
  5. Lawless to stay on drilling ship overnight


    ABC 4 - 31 minutes ago
    Actress Lucy Lawless poses during a photocall for 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' ... (Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images) Lucy Lawless will spend Friday night ...
  6. Lawless settles in for night


    Otago Daily Times - 8 hours ago
    Actor Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace New Zealand activists are settling in for an overnight stay on board Arctic-bound drillship Noble Discoverer in the ...
    Protestors storm port gatesStuff.co.nz
    Greenpeace protesters set to stay on drilling shipRadio New Zealand
    all 14 news articles »
  7. Actress Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace activists climb oil-drilling ...


    mysask.com (press release) - 17 hours ago
    Nick Perry, AP In this photo provided by Greenpeace, actress Lucy Lawless, left, joins activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the ...
  8. Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship


    AZFamily - 17 hours ago
    AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Television actress Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try ...
  9. [VIDEO] Lucy Lawless Straps Herself to Oil Tanker in New Zealand


    411mania.com - 14 hours ago
    Lucy Lawless has strapped herself to the top of an oil tanker in New Zealand. She was seen screaming "Xena" war cries while refusing to leave until the ...
  10. Exclusive: Lucy Lawless Joins Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter in ...


    TVLine - 3 days ago
    Sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that Spartacus minx Lucy Lawless has joined Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and Oscar winner Holly Hunter in BBC Worldwide's ...
    Lucy Lawless Joins Elisabeth Moss In BBC Miniseries Top Of The LakeCinema Blend
    Spactacus Vengeances' Lawless Joins Mad Men's Moss at the LakeBoomtron.com
    all 3 news articles »

    Cinema Blend
  11. House GOP redoing transportation bill - Vilsack pumps up biofuels ...


    Politico - 2 hours ago
    XENA, ARCTIC PRINCESS: Actress Lucy Lawless and six other Greenpeace activists stormed a Shell drilling ship in Port Taranaki, New Zealand, early Friday ...

 

'Just 2 possible worlds: A. Centered on the top 1%; B. Devoted to the bottom 1%. 'A' will be our Death.' SL (no detail)


Obama Peace Maker: US envoy sees bit of progress in NKorea nuke talks Atlanta Journal Constitution

US, North Korea Hold 'Substantive' Talks in Beijing

Voice of America -
February 24, 2012 US, North Korea Hold 'Substantive' Talks in Beijing Stephanie Ho | Beijing The United States and North Korea ended two days of talks in Beijing Friday with no breakthrough on Pyongyang's controversial nuclear program.
US envoy sees bit of progress in NKorea nuke talks
China 'sent back nine North Korean refugees'
'No breakthrough' in US-North Korea talks
DPRK Denounces Seoul Nuclear Security Summit
Kim grips the throne

In Israeli Gheto Palestine: Female detainee in Israeli jail announces hunger strike The Muslim News

Palestine: Female detainee in Israeli jail announces hunger strike

The Muslim News -
Palestinian Researcher, specialized in Detainees Affairs, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that female detainee Hana' Yahia Ash-Shalaby, 28, declared hunger strike after Israel transferred her into Administrative Detention without charges for six months.

GOPigs Detest Obama's Christian Decency on Koran Burning; his Peace Making

Gingrich rips Obama's apology over Koran burnings in Afghanistan

New York Daily News -
By Aliyah Shahid / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich ripped President Obama's apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday. Yes. It was the right thing to do.

Maher puts one-million dollars behind pro-Obama Super PAC CNN

Maher puts one-million dollars behind pro-Obama Super PAC

CNN (blog) -
The comedian and talk show host who has long railed on the weakness of the Republican presidential field announced at a stand up comedy show on Thursday that he would donate $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama Super PAC.

Rick Santorum's attacks on Barack Obama are about theology not policy The Guardian

Rick Santorum's attacks on Barack Obama are about theology not policy

The Guardian -
According to US presidential candidate Rick Santorum, President Barack Obama undermines the United States' "Judeo-Christian values" through his implementation of his policies.
LETTER: Santorum needs civics lessons
Santorum's views on the Earth is questionable

Obama gets campaign money from pro hoops starsUSA TODAY

GLIMMER OF HOPE: US does not believe Iran is trying to build nuclear bomb Los Angeles Times