:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.22.2003 ::
:: Earth Day: Bushwhacked ::
From The Gainesville Times:
Activists: War lets Bush aim at environment
With the nation's attention still riveted on the war in Iraq, most Americans probably aren't aware that today is Earth Day.
Some area environmentalists say the Bush administration has taken advantage of the public's distraction, pushing through an anti-environmental agenda without anyone noticing.
ALSO:
Lieberman Slams Bush On Environment
3:23 PM EDT,April 22, 2003
An AP report
VERPLANCK, N.Y. -- President Bush's record on environmental issues is "the worst since the modern environmental movement began," Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said Tuesday.
The president "wants to protect the power plants that make out air dirtier instead of protecting the people that are hurt by that pollution," said Lieberman, a Democratic presidential candidate, at an Earth Day news conference. "He wants to open up more and more of our public land to drilling and logging and mining. ... He tried to roll back the protections to keep our water safe from arsenic poisoning."
An editorial from Florida Today:
Earth Day brings little cause for cheer
The natural resources we need to survive are increasingly threatened by human greed, ignorance and, shamefully, the anti-environmental agenda coming down from Washington.
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