by Matthew L. Schafer This week, the BBC announced the opening of a new United States website. The BBC is a public funded media outlet in the United Kingdom that garners traffic from upwards of 17 million United States citizens. Despite many American’s reliance on the UK’s public media, any suggestion of increased public media […]
Furs Return To Fashion: Defining ‘Humane’
by Sonam Ongmo, originally published in GlobalVoices If you thought that wearing fur was outdated – what with all those green movements and animal rights activists who put this cruel sense of fashion in its right place with the likes of Cruella de Vil – fashionista’s say, think again. Last month the fashion world went […]
Senate Extends Patriot Act On Voice Vote, House Affirms Also
UPDATE: According to mainstream news sources, the one year extension on the Unpatriot Act was also passed overwhelmingly in the House, and also without changes addressing such measures against non-Americans, if any such measures should be taken at all in this country due to the negligence of Washington instituting far stricter immigration and visa policies, rather than less so post […]
Health Care Deform: Another Stimulus for Financial Sector, Personal Injury Lawyers, Corporate Medic
While Barack Obama is enjoying his vacation in Copenhagen along with the other world leaders in the name of saving the planet from its eventual demise due to carbon emissions (and in which the carbon emissions from the private jets of those world leaders beats the average citizen of all those countries by about 100 […]
Egypt: When did Saudi Arabia become Switzerland’s role model?
On Sunday, November 29, 57.5% of Swiss voters approved a ban on the construction of new minarets atop mosques, paving the way for a constitutional amendment. The referendum will affect the building of new minarets–not mosques–and will not effect Switzerland’s four existing minarets. Jillian York covered the initial reactions from the Arab and Muslim blogosphere. Between support and opposition the ban is […]
Thank You, Jeanne-Claude
I had the honor to work as an installer on the Gates Project in February 2005. It was a transformational moment for me and the City that I love. There is something magical about spending an entire week in Central Park, especially in the frost of winter, surrounded by nature and sky, laboring to raise […]
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