March 2009
BBC NEWS | Wales | Shepherds reveal viral ad... →
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David Bowie - See Emily Play (Pink Floyd cover)
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from: Cinda Baxter @ The 3/50 Project :...
Thanks for the post; as the founder of The 3/50 Project, I can’t begin to tell you how much the visibility is appreciated. It’s amazing how picking 3 stores, then spending a tiny $50 per month can have such a huge impact…especially when you consider that $68 per $100 spent in locally owned businesses returns to the local community through taxes, payroll, and related expenses (compared to an...
G20 protesters face police with Tasers →
—via jhnbrssndn:
SCOTLAND YARD is to deploy officers armed with 50,000-volt Taser stun guns to deal with violent demonstrators planning to disrupt this week’s G20 summit in London.
The centrepiece of the security plan will be hundreds of officers from the Metropolitan police territorial support group, who are routinely armed with speedcuffs, extended batons and CS gas spray.
The Met...
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers →
By John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, for The Nation
Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived. The crisis of which we speak involves more than mere economics. Journalism is...
Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6... →
—via The New York Times
A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level Bush administration officials violated international law by providing the legal framework to justify the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an official close to the case said. The case, against former Attorney General Alberto...
David Bowie - See Emily Play (Pink Floyd cover)
David Bowie - Days
The 3/50 Project →
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Simple and effective idea for impacting our local economies. (via Seth Godin)
vruz: well I’ve been doing this for years it’s really a no-brainer, but it’s great Godin is a great communicator and hopefully people will start paying attention and realise they’re killing their own neighbours when they buy from the big markets.
Godin should have this...
