Tony K’s got something to say

The Washington Post reports this morning that the office of the Vice President edited testimony on climate change before its submission–isn’t this illegal (or did those rules change while I was sleeping)?
Members of Vice President Cheney’s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former […]

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My friend, Sarah Jane Hise, has been following the Global development agendas, or lack thereof in the presidential debates on the Center for Global Development’s Blog. So far it looks like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both developed platforms on Global Development issues. Of course there is a shout out to John […]

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This is a pretty good account (login mat be required) of where things stand with the “top 3″ Dems in the race.  What I would like to know is–what it will take to get Bill Richardson up in the ranks of the media darling elites.
Change is needed–but just noting we need change is not making […]

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(HT:  mi amiga Ruth)
Check out Free Rice.  The site is a English vocab game that donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to developing countries for every answer you get correct.  The funds are provided by the companies advertising on the site.  Take a look at the current tally.
The genius is the spin–turning charity […]

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But not for voting rights–for gun rights….
Obviously I am missing the point here; we don’t have the right to a representative vote in the Federal government BUT the case to repeal the hand-gun ban makes international news and gets a date with the Supreme Court.
The Second Amendment states: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the […]

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Today’s WaPo has a short article detailing the recent statement from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that notes we (humans) have seven years to reduce our carbon emissions in order to save 1/4 of the species that inhabit the Earth. YES one-quarter…
The stark choices laid out yesterday by the agency’s Intergovernmental Panel […]

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Congrats to CGD on launching Carma.org: Carbon Monitoring for action. The data collection is incredible and the visual display does a great job of showing this as Global issue.
So go check out the site, grab some data and go make a difference!

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