Rubin points to the Canadian prairies as one area that will benefit from warmer temperatures. Photo from Pixabay By Lloyd Alter Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and gas would be $10 a gallon by 2012. In 2012, he explained[…]
Jeff Swensen via Getty Images By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.01.2016 Bernie Sanders won 81.6% of the Democratic caucus vote in Alaska, yet Kim Metcalfe – a Democratic Party superdelegate from Alaska – is firm that she will still cast her vote for Hillary Clinton. Levi Younger, a recent political science graduate, had a conversation[…]
Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to her supporters during her Primary Night Event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center on March 15, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) are battling for the Democratic presidential nomination. March 15, 2016| Credit: Joe Raedle /[…]
The Antiquity Amphitheater might be the most famous of Plovdiv’s numerous impressive archaeological monuments. Photo: Old Plovdiv Municipal Institute By Ivan Dikov / 04.01.2016 Archaeology in Bulgaria Possibly the most famous cultural landmark of the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, its well preserved Antiquity Amphitheater, will be renovated as part of a project which also[…]
Not long after ten Lancashire residents were found guilty of witchcraft and hanged in August 1612, the official proceedings of the trial were published by the clerk of the court Thomas Potts in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster. Four hundred years on, Robert Poole reflects on England’s biggest witch[…]
From Greenpeace on YouTube / 04.01.2016: At a Hillary Clinton rally at SUNY Purchase campus today, the presidential candidate lost her patience with a Greenpeace activist who thanked her for her commitment to climate change then asked her whether she’ll reject fossil fuel money moving forward. Pointing her finger at activist Eva Resnick-Day, Clinton claimed[…]
Here are a few of the brochures the Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers will be distributing Friday. From Joey Stipek at KFOR News in Oklahoma / 04.01.2016: A rural Colorado school district is standing by their policy of allowing atheist and satanic brochures, despite recent protests from some Christian parents. On Friday, members of the[…]
Starbucks News Release: During Starbucks 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Starbucks chairman and ceo Howard Schultz expanded on a question he posed two years ago: What is the role and responsibility of a for-profit company? Schultz asked partners (employees), shareholders and customers: “What is the role and responsibility of all of us, as citizens?” Schultz[…]
From Seth Abramson at The Huffington Post / 03.31.2016: On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points. By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points. And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, released a poll showing that Sanders leads Clinton among African-American[…]
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.01.2016 Following the ban on official government travel by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York to North Carolina for its anti-LGBT legislation, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has done the same and prohibited official government travel from that city to the state. Other governors and mayors are slated to join,[…]
Photo Courtesy of Creative Commons Image By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.01.2016 Returning to his native Brooklyn, Senator Sanders told a gathered crowd, “You are the heart and soul of this revolution.” Indeed, coming from their number, his days growing up in Brooklyn and conditions under which he lived set his course for the future[…]