Leaf Blowers, Korea occupiers, Ray McGovern, Lefty Blogs

lmc
Letter to Leichardt Council: 11May06 (tomorrow we see if they publish)

Leaf Blowers an abomination

I am shocked to see Leichardt council forcing its employees to use leaf blowers.

Each leaf blower emits as much pollution as 20 cars. The noise is disturbingly similar to human screaming.
They force dust into the air to a much greater extent than a broom.

As we approach the end of cheap oil, its criminally absurd and wasteful to force council workers to strap petrol engines to their backs. Vibrations, noise, and benzine fumes, means these workers health will be compromised for the rest of their lives.

Some executive made the decision to buy & maintain blowers. Why? My guess is he drives a big car, and feels that engines are wonderful and modern. Whereas they are dated and disgusting.

Bring back the broom.

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travelmatters

City Dwellers produce less CO2 per household
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antiwar 9May06.. Sixty South Korean activists will face criminal after they attacked police as part of a thousand-strong protest against a plan to expand a U.S. military base .. Camp Humphreys in Pyongtaek, ..south of Seoul.
..Thousands of elderly rice farmers will be evicted ..
"During the Korean War, our land was stolen by the U.S. Army," 80-year-old farmer Pong Wan Chul told me .. in 2003. "They drove a bulldozer to kick us out.. I had a barn for my cow. They pushed the barn with their bulldozer.. .. the U.S. military is exempt from most environmental laws.

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antiwar
tompaine
My Meeting With Rumsfeld by Ray McGovern

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Lefty Blogs 11/05/2006
a quick & dirty list, some are greenhouse or peak oil, not strictly leftish
Some wingnut sites may have crept in by mistake
Several are dormant
Some are news sites that only sometimes have lefty columns
Crude rating system ++ = very good + = OK
abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab
annezook +
antiwar ++
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush
drforbush
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
georgemustgo + moved?
halcyondays ++
hammeroftruth +
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
iraqblogcount ++14Apr06 suspended
iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
joevialls dormant
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
malakandsky x
maruthecrankpot +
mediastorm +
melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
mquinn02 DEfunct
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
politicalhumor +
raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
riverbendblog
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
samadams dormant
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
aliveinbaghdad ++
allhatnocattle
almuajaha defunct
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
gbruno ++YT
axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
bushwhackedusa defunct
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
dahrjamailiraqhref="http://www.dailykos.com/
davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hamasonline defunct
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
rall ++ Ted Rall cartonist
ratical
redpepper
rense
robert
rollingstone
scoop
selvesandothers ++
smirkingchimp
snappingturtle
socialistworker
spiked
tblog
theiraqiroulette
theleftcoaster +
thepoorman +
tnr ++ magazine
tompaine ++ mag
traprockpeace ++
truthout +
ucomics ++lefty?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
worldtribunal +
worldwatch ++ $ required
zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
.............
blogads liberal blogs by CPM $ per view
malakandsky ++ stolid?
republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
workingforchange +
leftinthewest +
dembloggers +
talkingpointsmemo +
firedoglake ++
vastleft ++
pamspaulding +
americablog +
washingtonmonthly ++
mydd +
politics1 +
bartcop ++
politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb


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