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An excellent article in the New York Times
Carolyn Tamler …
www.moveon.org and www.whidbey.net
The article and link below is from a 2007 New York Times, but it still seems very relevant and timely.
The Price of Free Airwaves By MICHAEL J. COPPS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/opinion/02copps.html?pagewanted=print
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U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
05/29/2013 03:06 PM EDT
FRUIT TREASURE of CHULA VISTA, CA is recalling 43 boxes (25lb) of fresh THAI PEPPERS, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
05/29/2013 06:17 PM EDT
Lowlite Investments d/b/a Olympia Pharmacy (“Lowlite”) today announced a voluntary multi-state recall of all sterile drug products compounded by the pharmacy that have not reached the expiration date listed on the product. The recall is being initiated due to concerns associated with prior quality control procedures that impacted sterility assurance.
05/29/2013 06:54 PM EDT
Today, Lightlife Foods in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is voluntarily recalling a limited number of packages of its Lightlife Farmer’s Market Veggie Burgers that may contain an undeclared allergen, milk. Certain packages of the Farmer’s Market Veggie Burgers may have inadvertently been filled with Lightlife Kick Black Bean Burgers, which contain an allergen, milk. The milk allergen is not declared on the Farmer’s Market Veggie Burger product label. This product was shipped to food stores and distributors nationwide.
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Stay out of Syria
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 in favor of arming and training the Syrian rebels.
This is a misguided and dangerous idea.
I helped to train the Iraqi Army during my second tour, and their concern is that many of the anti-Assad forces are the same terrorists they’ve fought before and who continue to target them.
Plus, as Senator Tom Udall noted, once we introduce weapons, we have zero control over them. The United States “could turn over the weapons we’re talking about and next day they end up in the hands of al-Qaida.”
Three Senators voted against the bill in committee, but we need you to send a strong message to the other 97 that you oppose intervention in Syria’s civil war. You can do that here:
http://action.votevets.org/syria
Moreover, there is no winning scenario when we get involved in other nations’ civil wars and proxy wars.
On this point, Senator Chris Murphy said it best: “We have failed over and over again in our attempts to pull the strings of Middle Eastern politics.”
Let’s not make the same mistake again.
Jon Soltz
@jonsoltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets.org
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67 Million tons of global warming pollution
The Department of the Interior is about to let a coal company dig up 67 million tons of global warming pollution on public lands. There are just two days before the first public comment period closes. Submit a comment today.  |
There are only two days left in the first public comment period on a decision that determines whether 67 million tons of global warming pollution stays in the ground.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) is about to let an Australian company called Ambre Energy dig up hundreds of acres of public lands to expand its West Decker Coal Mine. All for more of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuel on the planet.
The impact of this one mine is astonishing. Coal produced from the mine’s expansion would release as much carbon pollution as 14 million cars do in a year.
Ambre wants to keep these processes with the DOI quick, quiet and out of the public eye. But if we flood the DOI with public comments, we can shine a spotlight on this climate disaster to stop it from moving forward.
With only two days remaining before the first public comment period deadline, every comment counts. Make a comment now to keep millions of tons of coal in the ground where it belongs.
This coal mine isn’t just bad news for the climate. It’s also an exploitation of our public lands for corporate profits.
The federal coal leasing program run by the DOI has already given coal companies $29 billion in subsidies by selling the rights to publicly-owned coal for a fraction of what it’s worth.
Ambre Energy wants to mine more publicly-owned coal at low costs, and then sell that coal overseas at inflated prices for bigger returns. Coal companies like Ambre win, people and the climate lose.
It’s time to stop the exploitation of our public lands and the climate for the benefit of Ambre Energy’s bottom line. There are just two days left to add your voice.
Thanks to supporters like you, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has heard from the public about the problems with the DOI’s coal leasing program since day one of her term. But our campaign won’t stop until she takes action to end it permanently.
The West Decker Coal Mine expansion – like the entire DOI coal leasing program – is undermining the Obama administration’s commitment to reduce global warming pollution.
If we’re going to be serious about fighting climate change, then we have to get serious about the biggest sources of global warming pollution. We can’t be drilling for oil in the Arctic or building the Keystone XL pipeline. And we certainly can’t be opening up new federal lands to coal mining.
New fossil fuel projects like the West Decker Coal Mine threaten to send our climate past a point of no return. Together we have to stop them.
Thanks for taking action and for all that you do.
For the planet,
Kelly Mitchell Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner
Be a Seed for Change 
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