Category Archives: Environmentally Ill

Rona Ambrose: Canada’s (inter)national embarrassment

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Sabina Becker

If anyone makes me, as a Canadian, hang my head in shame, it’s this woman: Canada has no chance of meeting its targets under the Kyoto accord and must set more realistic goals for cutting greenhouse gases, the federal environment … Continue reading →

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Buh-bye, Big ‘n’ Ugly…

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And good riddance to bad rubbish. From the CBC: General Motors will drop the gas-guzzling Hummer H1 at the end of the 2006 model year, the automaker said Friday. The final H1 is expected to be built in June. About … Continue reading →

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Happy Earth Day, dear Repugs!

Posted on April 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

You say there’s no such thing as global warming? Ha! Triumph the Insult Dog poops on you!And, on a more serious note, so does Seed Magazine.

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Too true to be truly funny

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This would be a good time to start rethinking all that, yes?

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Another 9-11 first responder has died

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And if you guess correctly what she died of, you win a hunk of asbestos-ridden rubble from Ground Zero: A 41-year-old paramedic who worked at a morgue for months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center … Continue reading →

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Mexico: sneak preview for America’s future

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Hey, Americans…wanna know where your country’s headed under BushCo, NAFTA, the NRA, the whole shebang? Clicky-clicky…but you’ll no likey: In an overwhelmingly Catholic country, abortion is illegal in Mexico unless the woman concerned was raped. However, according to the report, … Continue reading →

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The swiftboating of CITGO

Posted on February 27, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Oil Wars and Juan Gonzalez have both got the goods on Joe Barton, the Texas Repug oil profiteer-cum-congresscritter squatting in the House of Representatives, who’s coming down hard on CITGO for reasons that can only be described as blatantly political. … Continue reading →

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So much for Monsanto’s claims

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…of saving the world with its Frankenfoods. From the Beeb: Sustainable farming methods can help the poorest farmers in developing nations out of poverty, new research suggests. Scientists found that techniques such as crop rotation and organic farming increased crop … Continue reading →

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A cowflop by any other name

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…still smells like bullshit. But hey, don’t let that stop you from calling it “journalism”. From the NY Times: Journalists like to think of themselves as presenting as accurate a picture as they can of the real world. The American … Continue reading →

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Uh-oh, Canada…

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…My home and native land;True patriot loveMay not protect thy sand!We need a much bigger armyFrom sea to sea to sea,Since Dubya, ever so smarmy,Has vile designs on thee!God keep our landOut of BushCo’s hands!O Canada, who’ll stand on guard … Continue reading →