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Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 6:57 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:11 PM | Add Comment

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:10 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:52 PM | Add Comment

Scientists turn stem cells into pork. One day it could be "a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon"

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:44 PM | Add Comment

Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:27 PM | Add Comment

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:40 AM | Add Comment

Bad year for biofuel ends on a dour note

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:21 AM | Add Comment

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2009 3:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 6:59 PM | Add Comment

225,000 Haiti children work as slaves, sold for as little as $128 to work as laborers or prostitutes

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Can eco-friendly fashion be just as stylish?

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Newsweek article: How to Live Happily on 75 Percent Less ... (and photos of the homeless who need our help -- this winter is already very harsh)

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

NHS maternity services in meltdown: former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos as "births are turning into conveyer-belt productions"

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:18 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Photo: workers in a salt field near Ohn-chaung in Burma's Ayeyarwady Delta

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 5:23 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Italian police seize secret stash of masterpieces "by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art"

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

From catwalk to laptop, fashion houses embrace web

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:26 PM | Add Comment

Homeless S. Africans complain ahead of World Cup that they are being forced from the streets to make way for "glamorous events"

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Swahili Fashion Week celebrates Tanzania's kanga fabric: "Just as India has saris and Japan has the kimono, we have the kanga"

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:50 PM | Add Comment

"Vivid pink" diamond sells for record $10.8 million

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:44 PM | Add Comment

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:31 PM | Add Comment

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a scavenger looks for recyclable items in the waters of the River Yamuna in New Delhi

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:05 PM | Add Comment

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:47 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: Indonesian women sell their harvest in a traditional floating market on the Martapura river in Borneo

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Alert from Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha is closing, and the greyhounds need to be adopted!

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 11:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Article from Eco expert Fred Pearce: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:54 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:11 PM | Add Comment

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Slaughter of the horses: More animals will be shot as recession bites. Please help Horse Sanctuaries if you can....

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 4:10 PM | Add Comment

Italian inventor creates electronic holy water dispenser to lessen risk of H1N1/swine flu viral infection of church attendees

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 4:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish "Cinderella" ball, hoping to find a millionaire (the women must first go through "stringent screening of their looks, physique and intellect")

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Kenya's wind power project snagged

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2009 11:43 AM | Add Comment

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

Posted by kluciole at 11/7/2009 2:06 PM | Add Comment

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: children look for coins and other reusable material amid fancy boats offered by devotees at the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Thousands line up for last Big Mac in Iceland

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2009 5:57 PM | Add Comment

Russia's Millionaire's Fair: a chrome Mercedes, fridges wrapped in snake skin, and more as recession still bites deep for most of the population

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2009 5:47 PM | Add Comment

Winds slow repairs after two rods and a 5,000-pound crossbeam fall into traffic lanes on Bay Bridge

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 10:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: welders wear improvised protection masks at a construction site in Hefei, eastern China

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:00 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Australian town back-flips after cutting ties with its Japanese "sister-city" Taiji over its slaughter of dolphins

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Thanks to Luciole contributor Bridget Van Loon for this article link about the practices behind large scale dairy farming. "Please educate yourself on what and who you are supporting with your dollars and diet"

Posted by kluciole at 10/22/2009 10:19 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Only 22 countries are paid-in-full members of U.N.

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 6:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

First woman wins Nobel Economics Prize. Elinor Ostrom: "I won't be the last"

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 12:56 AM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 2:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The 10 least visited U.S. national parks

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 11:47 AM | Add Comment

Geography makes a difference in health coverage

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Reopening the Northeast Passage, Thanks to Global Warming

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:30 AM | Add Comment

One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back?

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:18 AM | Add Comment

DNC launches website to debunk "the outrageous lies and misinformation about health reform"

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:10 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? ("Is he stirring the fears of Americans who feel left out?")

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Wall Street’s New Gilded Age -- A year after the crash, a few financial giants are back to making millions, while average Americans face foreclosure and unemployment

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 11:33 AM | Add Comment

Gov. Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills, after California lawmakers "adopted landmark renewable energy plan"

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:03 AM | Add Comment

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:24 AM | Add Comment

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

(Edit to add second article) First -- The 'You lie!' aftermath, and second --Analysis: 'You lie!' further erodes discourse

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Video shows all male chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery: "there is no federal law that ensures the humane euthanasia of animals on farms or hatcheries"

Posted by kluciole at 9/1/2009 8:20 PM | Add Comment

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2009 1:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles

Posted by kluciole at 8/31/2009 1:25 PM | Add Comment

Nepal villagers on climate change frontline

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2009 1:23 PM | Add Comment

McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall: "one man pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan (than the rest of us)"

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2009 9:38 AM | Add Comment

NYC's 'skinniest' house has fat price tag: $2.7M -- the house is 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:34 AM | Add Comment

Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight: "(they) are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue" ... (let's hope that is not how everyone feels)

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

"His Name Might Be Tommy" -- a message from NativeProgress.org. Please donate what you can for the children at the General Beadle Community School!

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 6:17 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Widely accepted argument against government medical plan is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 1:47 AM | Add Comment
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