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Rob Ickes :: Road Song

A great Jazz album featuring Rob Ickes (Dobro), Michael Alvey (Piano) and Robinella (vocals). Lovely fusion of jazz with country, bluegrass influences. Soft, mellow and different!
Love it!

BBC – 5 live Breakfast: President Blair?

Interesting Interesting use of Social Media interacting with other media. Radio 5live changed the phone in today in response to tweets and texts about the idea of Blair (aka Billy Liar) becoming president of Europe.
The very idea of that miserable manipulative lying excuse for a democrat getting the job makes me want to vomit.
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Boycott Nestlé – and other action to protect infant health: Nestlé-Free Week 26 October – 1 November

This week is Boycott Nestlé Week.  For years Nestlé have been pretending that they don’t put profits before people despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary supplied by the World Health Organisation, Baby Milk Action and many other organisations.
Nestlé themselves have just started their own small boycott. the snippet below is from ethicalperformance.com:
Nestlé has vowed to [...]

Louder is the new online home for campaigners

Louder is the new online home for campaigners.
Months in development and still well short of where it needs to be but LOUDER has finally been launched.
It was an odd feeling heading on Friday heading for London on the train to the soft “progressive beta” launch of the site.
It’s good but not great yet.  Lots more [...]

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Scary’ climate message from past

‘Scary’ climate message from past
via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Scary’ climate message from past.
One of the more perplexing things about the whole Climate Change debate is that so few people seem until recently to have wondered where all the crap that we throw into the atmosphere goes.
In the mid ’70s I recall [...]

Another amazing success in our Amazon cattle campaign | Greenpeace UK

Great news arrived in an email this morning about the Amazon from Greenpeace:
In the last few months our campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest has gone from strength to strength. Today I’m writing to share with you the most significant victory yet.
Four of the largest players in the global cattle industry just announced their collective [...]

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