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• 60 Seconds to Save the Earth

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Sixty seconds doesn’t seem like a lot of time; however, there are lots of things that can be done in sixty seconds or less.  For instance, an average adult can type 38 to 40 words and blink between ten and 30 times every sixty seconds (sometimes simultaneously).  Furthermore, an elite distance runner can run about ...
  2 days ago

• Liberadio(!) Podcast: December 14, 2009 with Vanessa Beasley, Kevin Leander, Matt Collins, and Karl Frisch

  
  Liberadio(!) — Authority: 463
  Summary: Featuring guests Vanessa Beasley and Kevin Leander , faculty board members for Vanderbilt Student Communications , Matt Collins , Ex-Vice Chair, Davidson County Republican Party , Tyler Slocum , Director of Energy Program for Public Citizen , and Karl Frisch of Media Matters for America . ...
  2 days ago

• Just in case anyone doubts who our President’s boss is, read the following article posted in the Huffington Post…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Look at the last paragraph in particular…; Way past time Americans did something about the crooks in control of our lives and our childrens future… One excellent way to stop these bums cold is quite simple; tomorrow each and every one of us should walk into our bank and withdraw ever penny from every account…, ...
  2 days ago

• Group Wants Meridia Banned Due to Risk of Heart Deaths

  
  Diets in Review Blog — Authority: 527
  The consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, is urging the Federal Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to yank the weight loss drug, Meridia from the pharmacies all across the country because of its potentially life-threatening risks. So far, 84 people taking Meridia have died following heart-related complications. ...
  5 days ago

• Copen-update

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Its already getting tough to keep tabs on everything happening in Copenhagen, so for now I’ll just share what I’ve been reading.  Here’s today’s Copen-digest: Grist , as always, is an invaluable resource (and amusing to boot). Keep an eye on there often-updated series, Grist in Copenhagen: How føcked are ...
  1 week ago

• TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a third smokestack) is painful.  At the very moment that leaders from around the world are meeting to come to an ...
  1 week ago

• Join Public Citizen at the Second Annual Austin Green Holiday Social

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Join Public Citizen Texas December 15th at Barr Mansion (we just can’t get enough) for the Second Annual Austin Green Holiday Social! This event will be co-hosted by seven of Austin’s best and brightest green groups. Join us again at the beautiful Barr Mansion, the first certified organic events facility in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Single Payer Health Insurance | PBS

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 454
  Buy the DVD: www.shoppbs.org BMJL4306_052209:N:DGR:N:N:609:QPBS Washington’s abuzz about health care , but why isn’t a single-payer plan an option on the table? Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program’s Dr. David Himmelstein on the political and logistical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Public Citizen calls on FDA to pull weight loss drug citing serious health issues

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 512
  Atlanta, Georgia (CaymanMama.com) — A consumer rights group is working a petition to the U.S. government asking that the Food and Drug Administration ban the weight loss drug Meridia following a recent study that suggests the pill increases risk of heart attack, stroke and death. Public Citizen sent a letter to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t Let Texas Become the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dumping Ground

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Join us next Thursday, December 10th to help stop Texas from becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump! Please Come: Texas Compact Commission Stakeholder Meeting Thursday, December 10th at 9am Texas Capitol, Extension Auditorium, E1.004 You are invited to attend the press conference as well, held by the SEED ...
  2 weeks ago

• West Texans Question How Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Would Affect Water Availability and Water Quality

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Citizens aware of extreme drought conditions point to potential serious conflict over water if coal plant were built (Abilene) – The Multi-County Coalition, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and individuals from the West Texas areas of Sweetwater and Abilene raised questions about how a proposed Tenaska coal plant ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas Railroad Commission Trying to Block Renewable Energy Lines to Help Big Oil

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Statement of David Power, Deputy Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Seemingly out of concern that competitive renewable energy will damage Big Oil’s bottom line, the Texas Railroad Commission wants to block renewable energy transmission lines that would put affordable energy from west Texas wind farms on ...
  2 weeks ago

• GOP Goes After Quasi-Lobbyist Daschle For Role In Health Care Talks

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 777
  Tom Daschle is taking heat from a good government group for his dual role as a participant in high-level health care reform talks and a quasi-lobbiyst for a law firm -- and the Republicans arent missing the chance to take a shot at Daschle as well. A "senior policy adviser" at DLA Piper, Daschle was the only ...
  3 weeks ago

• Join Public Citizen at the Second Annual Austin Green Holiday Social

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  Join Public Citizen Texas December 15th at Barr Mansion (we just can’t get enough) for the Second Annual Austin Green Holiday Social! This event will be co-hosted by seven of Austin’s best and brightest green groups. Join us again at the beautiful Barr Mansion, the first certified organic events facility in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Capitalism’ the movie calls for consumer action

  
  The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide — Authority: 423
  Having missed the opportunity to see Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” when it briefly played at local movie theaters, I was pleased to see it’s being shown at our local alternative theater. As a consumer specialist who’s written about consumer issues for three decades, I think the movie has a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Watch your wallet on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

  
  The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide — Authority: 423
  "Black Friday is soooo close. It’s my favorite holiday!!!" "Debating whether or not to enjoy Black Friday shopping. Nothing really needed, just enjoy the thrill of the hunt." "Old Navy started their Black Friday sales this morning [Tuesday]!" That’s what three consumers writing on Twitter said about Black ...
  3 weeks ago

• Send Citizen Sarah to Copenhagen

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 556
  If you haven’t heard, Huffingtonpost.com has a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen called the “Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest”. HuffPost in conjunction with Hopenhagen.org is sending one person to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to both represent concerns of people around the ...
  4 weeks ago

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