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Fire Response May Fail
Bolinas Medical And Fire Response May Fail With Terrace Rd. Collapse The top of Bolinas' Terrace Avenue slumped during the last big rain storm in creating the potential for a disaster in the coastal community.
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CHP Evacuates Office On Vibrating Bomb Threat
Union News Service SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - An anal vibrator believed to be a bomb caused the California Highway Patrol to briefly evacuate its South Lake Tahoe area office on April 7. The incident began around 4:30 a.m. when a California Highway Patrol...
Read More...KWMR Regroups Board of Directors
The KWMR Board of Directors held a public meeting on April 15 and welcomed five new members to its Board. Accepting positions on the board were David Bunnett of Inverness Park, John Gouldthorpe, of Point Reyes Station, Dan Morse of Inverness, Cindy...
Read More...Surprisingly Unhealthy Foods: What to Choose Instead!
What to eat? Seems like a simple question, but it's one that can vex even the most savvy eater, especially when trying to make sense of food packaging. How many times do you browse the grocery aisles trying to discern the "best" pasta, cereal or...
Read More...Safe Boating Is No Accident!
Marin Sail & Power Squadron, a non-profit group offering a tuition-free U.S. Coast Guard approved safe boating class at our Kell Educational Center, 789 North Hamilton Parkway, Novato, on May 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 2010. Final Exam May 25, 2010,...
Read More...PG&E's Energy Empire
The largest electricity provider in California has now committed $35 million to a campaign to essentially crush any dreams of public utilities. Pacific Gas & Electric has a measure on the ballot for this June that would require a two-thirds vote...
Read More...MMWD: Results Of No-notice Revenue Bond Ploy
Enlarge the pipeline from Sonoma to carry Russian River water into Marin condominiums, not yet built. Purchase vehicles for MMWD maintenance department. Buy a new blade for a hacksaw. MMWD General Manager has a list that he will e-mail to one man. ...
Read More...REINVENTING THE PRESS - SAVING DEMOCRACY
REINVENTING THE PRESS SAVING DEMOCRACY * Why are newspapers failing to cover and analyze important events? * Why are newspapers shrinking and disappearing? * What is the danger of media consolidation? * How does media ownership bias media coverage?...
Read More...WTF? UFOs, Dragon, on Marin Shopkeeper's 'Alternative' U.S. Flag
SF Weekly Blog It's not every day you get a phone call, and the first thing you hear is "I pretty much have a viable alternative to the American flag." Huh? The caller was Even Sting, the 69-year-old owner of Mill Valley curiosity chop The...
Read More...The Crumbling Front-Sabeel Conference In Marin
A crack has appeared in the eternal bond between the United States and Israel. And with it, the first, persistent vine of the flower of peace has burst into the light of day. First the crack and second the vine. Since a March 9 visit to Israel by...
Read More...14 Friends of Palestine runs Sponsored Diet for Palestine
On Sunday Jan 3rd, thirteen overweight men and women met together in a private home in San Rafael at the start of the 2010 Sponsored Diet for Palestine, run annually by 14 Friends of Palestine to raise money for a variety of human rights and humanitarian...
Read More...- CHP Evacuates Office On Vibrating Bomb Threat
- KWMR Regroups Board of Directors
- Surprisingly Unhealthy Foods: What to Choose Instead!
- Safe Boating Is No Accident!
- PG&E's Energy Empire
- MMWD: Results Of No-notice Revenue Bond Ploy
- REINVENTING THE PRESS - SAVING DEMOCRACY
- WTF? UFOs, Dragon, on Marin Shopkeeper's 'Alternative' U.S. Flag
- The Crumbling Front-Sabeel Conference In Marin
- 14 Friends of Palestine runs Sponsored Diet for Palestine
California News
Cell Phone Radiation Bill Clears First Hurdle
SACRAMENTO - Legislation authored by Senator Mark Leno giving consumers more information about how much radiation their cell phones emit passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee...
Read More...Spring Brings Insect Wars 2010
With spring comes the renewal of the insect wars. The Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) is once again under attack. California and the federal government are threatening massive crop and neighborhood...
Read More...Alcohol Tax Initiative Increase Price of Alcohol More Than 5,000 Times
SACRAMENTO - Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced that the proponents of a new initiative may begin collecting petition signatures for their measure. The Attorney General prepares...
Read More...Coastal Activists Bring Their Concerns To Congress
Leading coastal advocacy group focuses on Environmental Challenges at its annual Coastal Summit March 9-11 WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of back-to-back coastal storms that hammered...
Read More...Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer, Scientists Warn
A report issued by the International Electromagnetic Field Collaborative and endorsed by 43 scientists from 13 countries has reviewed the evidence linking cell phone use to brain tumors, and...
Read More...Brown Pelicans Washing Up Dead And Dying On California Beaches
In an ocean mystery that is baffling marine biologists, at least 1,000 brown pelicans have turned up dead or in distress along California beaches in January and February,...
Read More...There's A Pot Glut In California
As the state and feds loosen their grip, California's marijuana supply has grown to new heights. Marijuana is worth money, and in case you haven't noticed, there seems...
Read More...- Cell Phone Radiation Bill Clears First Hurdle
- Spring Brings Insect Wars 2010
- Alcohol Tax Initiative Increase Price of Alcohol More Than 5,000 Times
- Coastal Activists Bring Their Concerns To Congress
- Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer, Scientists Warn
- Brown Pelicans Washing Up Dead And Dying On California Beaches
- There's A Pot Glut In California
National News
Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
April 12, 2010 Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. "I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's...
Read More...Sheriff Tells Border Towns To Start Arming Themselves
American Free Press Along our southern border, concerns are growing that the escalating drug violence in Mexico will spill into the United States; and for many, on both sides of the...
Read More...Food Safety in the US: We're on Red Alert
Andrew Kimbrell Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety The United States once had one of the safest food systems in the world, but now, 70 million Americans are sickened,...
Read More...George W. Bush 'Knew Guantanamo Prisoners Were Innocent
London Times George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guant‡namo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing...
Read More...Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists: Bush to Obama
It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli Neo-Conservative Deputy Paul...
Read More...CNN Loses Half Its Viewers In A Year
CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year. ...
Read More...Judea Declares War on America's 44th President
Outspoken Israeli-born critic of Israel Gilad Atzmon put it bluntly in the title of his March 25 Internet essay: "Judea Declares War on Obama." Atzmon-whose candor is unswerving-was referring...
Read More...Good-bye. Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act~~George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed...
Read More...Death threats plague Democrats who supported Barack Obama's health care bill
Death threats plague Democrats who supported Barack Obama's health care bill Democrats who supported sweeping changes to America's health care system have been subjected to death threats...
Read More...Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid siege to and conquered a fictional city, helping build the...
Read More...- Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
- Sheriff Tells Border Towns To Start Arming Themselves
- Food Safety in the US: We're on Red Alert
- George W. Bush 'Knew Guantanamo Prisoners Were Innocent
- Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists: Bush to Obama
- CNN Loses Half Its Viewers In A Year
- Judea Declares War on America's 44th President
- Good-bye. Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It
- Death threats plague Democrats who supported Barack Obama's health care bill
- Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
International News
7 Biggest Environmental Disasters -- Where Are They Now?
EcoSalon Posted, Alternet When the peace of a community is shattered by man-made disaster - an oil spill, a toxic gas leak, a nuclear meltdown - a scar is left that may fade with passing...
Read More...Israeli Tanks and Bulldozers Rolled Into Gaza March 26
Tension has been high all week following the deaths of four Palestinian youths. The youths were accused by the Israeli army of throwing stones at them. The tension reached breaking point...
Read More...Israel Passes Draconian Apartheid Measures To Imprison Palestinians
As a delighted world watched President Obama quietly catch Israel in a perfect nuclear disarmament trap, the Israelis pulled another fast one. On April 14, Ha'aretz newspaper reported...
Read More...Volcanic Ash Cloud: Global Warming May Trigger More Volcanoes
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK Climate change could spark more ''hazardous'' geological events such as volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides, scientists have warned. In papers published by the Royal...
Read More...Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints
New York Times Published: March 26, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan - American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans and wounded 80 others...
Read More...Controlling The World: Bilderberg Found!
American Free Press The Bilderberg group will conduct its annual meeting June 3-6 in Sitges, Spain (a small, exclusive resort town about 20 miles from Barcelona) behind a wall of armed...
Read More..."Coalition to Break the Blockade on Gaza Announced"
Istanbul, Turkey - Following months of preparation, a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel's illegal blockade on Gaza was announced...
Read More...American Jews Seriously Rethinking Their Relationship With Israel
"The Israeli government is clearly unhappy with the current trends within the American Jewish community. It may even be said that it is attempting to interfere in the American political process...
Read More...Israeli Court to Hear Testimonies in the Unlawful Killing of American Activist Rachel Corrie
On March 10 the Haifa District Court will begin hearing eyewitness testimonies in a civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah,...
Read More...Global Warming Makes Trees Grow at Fastest Rate for 200 Years
Independent UK_, AlterNet Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern...
Read More...- 7 Biggest Environmental Disasters -- Where Are They Now?
- Israeli Tanks and Bulldozers Rolled Into Gaza March 26
- Israel Passes Draconian Apartheid Measures To Imprison Palestinians
- Volcanic Ash Cloud: Global Warming May Trigger More Volcanoes
- Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints
- Controlling The World: Bilderberg Found!
- "Coalition to Break the Blockade on Gaza Announced"
- American Jews Seriously Rethinking Their Relationship With Israel
- Israeli Court to Hear Testimonies in the Unlawful Killing of American Activist Rachel Corrie
- Global Warming Makes Trees Grow at Fastest Rate for 200 Years
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Coastal Post Op-Ed
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Bankruptcy Of Zionism Deceit and cheat were part and parcel of the Zionist...
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Bullies: Understanding the Beast The bully ignores decency, compassion, kindness, cooperation...
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Oppose the Freedom-Destroying Dietary Supplement Safety Act New legislation targeting nutritional supplements would...
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Stop Desalination Before It's Too Late There is a voters initiative being circulated that would...
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Democracy... and Treason? How can we react to events thoughtfully when our leaders make government seem like a mental health crisis center on a Saturday night during a full moon? And that's on the better days. After...
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The Schlock* Doctrine As our imperial stature declines the worst aspects of consumption culture show more hazardous and contradictory qualities. Our programmed fascination for new goods to replace old commodities...
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Feed War, Starve Democracy The American public is borrowing trillions of dollars to finance private capital and a military industry that president Eisenhower warned about more than fifty years ago....
Edward W. Miller
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The Supreme Court's Corporate Waltzing "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"...
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Bitten By Our Zionist Parasite "Remember that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. " -Andrew Jackson, March 4th, 1837 Freedom of speech,...
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Tearing at our Social Fabric "Let us Prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly." - President Theodore Roosevelt We as a nation are facing...
Moo Town News - Judy Borello
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"Facts Triumph over Fiction" In my January column, "Through the Looking Glass," I stated that enormous amounts of your tax dollars are going to environmental groups' attorneys to pay their fees and costs, which they've...
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Common Sense And Common Cents It's the economy stupid! And it certainly is! We everyday people have to live within a budget, and as the economy worsens we must tighten our belts. As we struggle to cut back and prioritize...
A Local Skeptic J. M. Pontacq
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Skeptic's Journal - Remembrances Of A Young Catholic Girl In 1966, I graduated from UC-Berkeley, and was on my very first trip on an airplane, to Paris. I had long dreamed about Europe, imagining train trips where I met a handsome spy and fell in...
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Please Respect Point Reyes Station! Some issues we can all agree on: The basis of democracy is that a majority of the people select political representation for the whole, showing via an honest vote (either verbal or in writing)...
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Throw-Aways Forty years ago, when I was someone else and America's government was not yet owned totally by corporate money, the idea of having robots take over the tasks of workers was the 'future.' Disneyland...