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• The First Rule Of Chuck E. Cheese Is ‘You Do Not Talk About Chuck E. Cheese…’

  
  A Bowl of Stupid — Authority: 115
  From the 8 December edition of the Chicago Tribune comes this gloriously ironic story, talking about how Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatres have become the new Fight Club. From the story:in the past few years Chuck E. Cheeses has developed a reputation as a sort of impromptu fight club, a place where fisticuffs break ...
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• The Longwave Group On Why The Fed Must Be Abolished

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  THE LONGWAVE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CYCLE - WINTER WARNING, December 7, 2009 Who’s In Charge? – The Regulators Big Brother is alive and living in Washington, D.C. but he is not well.   A malaise of weaknesses and failures, unearthed during the recent credit crisis, continues to permeate through various ...
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• Human Rights: Carter-Ruck - Toxic Silence

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 445
  "Legal advice to the Speakers Office has further compunded fears for free speech in the Commons" The Guardian.Caroline Davies of The Guardian has an excellent article about the attempt by London lawyers Carter-Ruck to stifle reporting of Trafigura and the Ivory Coast toxic waste scandal. The article focuses on ...
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• World Science Forum: Preventing future Bhopals

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 609
  A quarter century after the disaster at Bhopal, toxic chemicals continue to threaten lives in the developing world. Chemical spills poison Chinese rivers. Toxic waste sickens people in West Africa. What can be done to safeguard the public in developing countries? What role can consumers and investors in the developed ...
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• Rallies, meets to mark 25 years of Bhopal gas leak

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Bhopal, Dec 1 (IANS) Meetings, rallies, demonstrations and conferences will mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster which killed over 3,500 people instantly and maimed several thousands for life on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984.A torch rally will be taken out to the Union Carbide factory on Wednesday by the ...
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• Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy demand arrest of Warren Anderson

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Bhopal, Nov 29(ANI): The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy staged a protest in Bhopal on Sunday and burned effigies of Warren Anderson, Chairman of the Union Carbide when the disaster took place in 1984, demanding his arrest. With a few days to go for the 25 anniversary of the gas tragedy, the victims [...]
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• Survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy launch weeklong protest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Bhopal, Nov.28 (ANI): Ahead of 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, survivors of the tragedy have launched a week-long protest to vent their ire against the inaction of the State government to remove the toxic waste from the vicinity of Union Carbide’s plant where the gas leak took place.The survivors of the ...
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• Court allows government to open Union Carbide factory to public

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Bhopal, Nov 25 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court Wednesday permitted the state government to open the defunct Union Carbide factory here to the public, 25 years after the lethal gas release from it killed and maimed for life thousands of people on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.The government had moved ...
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• THREE INDIE-HORROR FILMS EACH GET A NO SKULL RATING: SATANIC PANIC-MIDNIGHT MOVIE-LATE FEE

  
  NECROTIC CINEMA — Authority: 104
   I have been away from Necrotic Cinema for a while due to technical issues and am but for the time being and need to make up for lost time. I have quite a few films I have I seen that needs commenting on and in particular the hillbilly-mutant family trilogy Wrong Turn and Jennifer’s Body. But before getting into ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ecuadors Amazonians sue Chevron over poison waterways

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans living in the Amazon rainforest are suing Chevron the US oil company for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental lawsuits in history.
  3 weeks ago

• Troops sue KBR over toxic waste in Iraq, Afghanistan

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  Kellogg Brown and Root and its former parent company Halliburton, which at one time was led by former vice president Dick Cheney, had a government contract to destroy waste at US bases and camps in Iraq and Afghanistan.   »  noticia original
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• Thank You for Vacationing in North Dakota

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 125
  Hazardous Waste Site Map: Posted in Life Tagged: America the Beautiful, Hazardous Waste, Toxic waste, Waste not want not
  4 weeks ago

• Bhopal Disaster Site Opened for Publicity Stunt

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 590
  A little under 25 years ago, before midnight on December 2nd 1984, a major venting of lethal methyl isocyanate occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Thousands were killed, and toxic waste continues to contaminate the local water supply to this day. To mark the anniversary and to "dispel ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 720
  By Gbemisola Olujobi The port of Lagos in Nigeria receives about 400,000 used computers every month, out of which only one in four is useful. The rest end up in landfills, garbage dumps and, in a curious twist, as resources for scammers. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 6, 2009 Dems Make ...
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• Coke going colorless: How could a naked can help the planet?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  Designer Harc Lee has some innovative and cool ideas when it comes to saving the planet and making that small contribution towards a future that could eventually make a world’s difference. One of the simplest and most attractive ideas that he has come up with is to profess the usage of softdrink cans in a ...
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• The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...
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• Ivory Coast: Toxic Waste Payout Blocked

  
  AfricanLoft — Authority: 123
  Thousands of victims of a toxic sludge dumping scandal could fail to receive their share of a 45 million dollar compensation package due to corruption in Ivory Coast, a British lawyer claims. Tens of thousands of people fell ill after a contractor for Dutch oil trader Trafigura dumped 500 tonnes of toxic waste in ...
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• Phosphate mining continues a toxic tradition

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 567
  If Simplot goes ahead with plans for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho, the Stewart familys long ranching lifestyle will never be the same.
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• will i get an economic stimulus package in may?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 133
  I’m 23, a student, and have filed a return this year with the fed. government. My parents claim me as a dependent still and I was wondering if I should expect to get a refund from the economic stimulus pack or not. I would imagine I don’t qualify.Related ArticlesEconomic stimulus money could breathe [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Shipwreck - an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 426
  Faux Cap, Madagascar – Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF.The Turkish vessel Gulser Ana grounded near Faux Cap in the [...]
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