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| == News == | | == News == |
| === Wednesday | November 17, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Rip-tompig.jpg|thumb|R.I.P.]]
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| '''R.I.P. City'''<br />
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| '''Q.''' Why is Portland, Oregon nicknamed [[Rip City]]?<br />
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| '''A.''' [[Trail Blazers]] guard, [[Jim Barnett]], ripped the net in 1970 causing the sports announcer to hyperventilate and coin the phrase "[[Rip City]]."<br />
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| ''Go to story'': [http://www.chacha.com/question/why-is-portland-oregon-nicknamed-rip-city Why is Portland Oregon nicknamed rip city?]
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| === Tuesday | November 16, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Peta proud body scan.jpg|thumb|Proud body by [http://www.peta.org/ PETA].]] | |
| '''Pouting <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.peta.org/ PETA]</span>philes Ponder "Proudbody Patdowns" @ PDX'''<br /> | |
| The success of [http://www.peta.org/ PETA]'s "proud body" campaign depends on ubiquitous distribution of [http://www.tsa.gov/ TSA]'s full-body scanners at all major airports. Unfortunately, the scanners slated for Portland International Airport ([[PDX]]) have failed to materialize and "Portland is not on TSA's deployment list" for the remainder of the year. Can PETA's "proud body" campaign successfully exploit any furtive gropings and fondlings TSA's "handlers" inflict upon Portland's air travel victims?<br />
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| :''Go to stories'':<br />
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| *[http://www.katu.com/news/local/108007129.html Researchers sound alarm over radiation from body scanners]
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| *[http://wewontfly.com/ WE WON'T FLY: Act Now. Travel with Dignity.]
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| === Monday | November 15, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Springtime-hitler.jpg|thumb|'''Full Disclosure''': Not every bully who beats up on poor folks is a <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtime_for_Hitler dancing Nazi]</span>.]]
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| '''America's "Moral Majority" Blame Poor Folks For Economic Blight Imposed By Wall Street'''<br />
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| "Political conservatives (continue) to blame poor African-Americans and Hispanics for the very act of being poor even as 43.6 million Americans of all racial stripes, 12.3 percent of them white, are living in poverty and collectively struggling to survive the fallout of an economic downturn (characterized by) widespread layoffs, massive home foreclosures and loss of retirement savings and other assets."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.theskanner.com/article/2010/11/13/Conservatives-Blame-the-Poor-for-being-Poor Conservatives Blame the Poor for being Poor]
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| === Sunday | November 14, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Condi-kick-out.jpg|thumb|Unwelcoming committee.]]
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| '''"Queen Of Terror" Denied Entry'''<br />
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| [[Rose City]] "radicals" question their own "victory" after realizing they just bolstered Portland's reputation as bastion of monochromatic pseudo-liberalism by compelling a [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/condoleezza-rice-cheney-a_n_190340.html conservative black woman] to take refuge in "(Dick) Cheney's bunker."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/11/403627.shtml VICTORY?]
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| === Saturday | November 13, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Coal-fired power plant.jpg|thumb|Coal-fired power plant. Image: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rs_butner/4193880822/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Scott Butner]]]
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| '''Coal Controversy Heats Up'''<br />
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| [[PGE]]'s [[Coal-Fired Power Plant|coal-fired power plant]] in [[Boardman]], [[Oregon]] "puts toxins into the air and water (that are) responsible for four of the five leading causes of death in the United States. These are serious toxins. If we wait another 10 years (to close the plant) the impacts could be disruptive and permanent."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/nov/13/debate-flares-over-coal-fired-power/ Debate flares over coal-fired power: Environmentalists at odds over when is best time to close pollution-causing plant in Boardman, Ore.]
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| :''Go to info resource center'': [http://www.ilovemountains.org/ End Mountaintop Removal Action and Resource Center]
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| === Friday | November 12, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Conflict-Minerals-101.gif|thumb|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-sJgcoY20 Conflict Minerals 101]]]
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| '''Clearcut Cell Towers; Leave The Trees'''<br />
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| Perhaps you're one of the dozens--if not hundreds--of folks across [[Consumertopia]] who has permanently switched off your cell phone because you can no longer feel good about our culture's "insatiable demand for electronics products such as cell phones and laptops" that "fuel waves of sexual violence" in places "that most of us will never go." No more trade in [[conflict minerals]] for you! And you're no longer overheating your brains with [[cell phone radiation]] and looking foolish by pressing an electronic gadget up against your head while chattering aimlessly as you hurtle down the highway or stumble along the sidewalk. But wait; there's something more: cell phone towers. They gotta go. Good news! You're invited to attend a workshop that'll show you how to get rid of 'em.<br />
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| :''Go to stories'':<br />
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| *[http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2010/11/a_workshop_on_cell_towers_in_p.html A workshop on cell towers in Portland neighborhoods]
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| *[http://www.enoughproject.org/publications/can-you-hear-congo-now-cell-phones-conflict-minerals-and-worst-sexual-violence-world CAN YOU HEAR CONGO NOW? CELL PHONES, CONFLICT MINERALS, AND THE WORST SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD]
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| *[http://organicode.net/consumertopia.html Consumertopia]
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| *[http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phone-radiation-levels/ Cell phone radiation levels]
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| === Thursday | November 11, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Homeless-vet-worthless-bum.jpg|thumb|Supporting our troops.]]
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| '''Today Is Veterans Day; Do You Know Where Your Veteran Is?'''<br />
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| "More than 10 percent of Oregon's homeless are veterans. There are 19 separate squatter villages populated primarily with homeless veterans in Central Oregon alone, and that's only the ones the Central Oregon Veterans Outreach group knows about. Many of them are addicted to drugs, or suffering from PTSD."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/veteran-assistance-programs-aid-more-homeless-veterans-in-the-winter-1.1748145 Veteran assistance programs aid more homeless veterans in the winter]
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