Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
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John Stauber, adviser to the Food Rights Network, talks about spinning toxic sludge as biosolids.
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John Stauber, adviser to the Food Rights Network, talks about spinning toxic sludge as biosolids.
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The AFL-CIO posted a YouTube video featuring out-of-work Americans pleading for Congress to extend their "lifeline" by extending their unemployment benefits. Benefits for about two million unemployed Americans expired on November 30, and Republicans in the Senate are blocking their renewal. About two million people nationwide will lose their unemployment benefits by January 1, 2011. Without another Congressional extension, more than 7 million people nationally will lose their unemployment income by November, 2011. One year's worth of renewed benefits is expected to cost about $56 billion. Republicans are demanding that spending cuts be made elsewhere in the budget to offset an extension in unemployment benefits, and are demanding that the expiring Bush-era tax cuts be renewed for everyone, including the country's wealthiest citizens, before they will agree to vote on renewing unemployment benefits. Extending the tax cuts is expected to cost the country $700 billion, but Republicans have not proposed a way to offset that amount from the budget. Democrats have tried several times to renew unemployment benefits, but the 42 Senate Republicans have blocked their efforts.
A banquet of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) grossed $1.47 million at the Waldorf-Astoria Nov. 23 with the profits going to oppressed reporters and their families throughout the world.
It is a noble effort supported by many blue chip corporate and media companies. Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, chaired the banquet. It was held on the first anniversary of the massacre of 57 people, including 32 journalists, in the Philippines. A video commemorated the tragedy.
CPJ has tracked the deaths of 840 journalists since 1992, most of them murdered in cold blood.
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