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Lights-out Los Angeles: Are you in?

Saturday, October 20, 2007 is the date of the Lights Out Los Angeles. This is a city and county wide effort to reduce our carbon footprint for just one hour. This effort is supported by a myriad of organizations ranging from Southern California Edison to big name retailers like Gap Inc. to Rainforest Action Network.
Sydney, Australia home to 2.2 million residents turned off the lights for 1 hour and reduced 25 tons of carbondioxide which is equivalent to taking 49,000 cars off the road for 60 minutes. Los Angeles is joining San Francisco's effort and it is estimated that the combined effort will remove ten times more carbon emissions as Sydney's. KPCC's Pat Morrison interviewed Lights Out America director of operations Brian Scott (listen to interview) who provided insight into the purposes behind this effort.........read FULL STORY

Blackwater: Shadow Army

Local law enforcement beware. There is a new threat to your employment and it isn't coming from street thugs and criminals where you work. This new threat is the the privatization of law enforcement.....read FULL STORY