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To Serve and Protect… or Not

The "About LAPD" page at JoinLAPD.com tells us: In 1955, a contest was announced in the Los Angeles Police Department's internal magazine, BEAT. The contest involved devising a motto for the Los Angeles Police Academy. The motto needed to be something that would succinctly express the ideals to which those who serve as Los Angeles Police Officers are dedicated. The winning entry, "to protect and to serve", was submitted by Officer Joseph S. Dorobek and served as the LAPD academy's motto until, by City Council action, it became the official motto of the entire Los Angeles Police Department in 1963. It continues [...]

By nicolesandler|August 13th, 2014|Tags: Arctic, brutality, climate change, Desi Doyen, Ferguson, fracking, Green News Report, ice melt, LAPD, Little League World Series, Methane, Michael Brown, militarization, Mo'ne Davis, Nicole Sandler, police, Radio or Not, Susie Madrak|Comments Off

Saving the Planet – And Ourselves (04/22/2014)

It's Earth Day, and the prognosis for our planet isn't great. We've passed 400 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere, high above the 350 ppm from which 350.org took its name - signifying the maximum levels we can sustain if life is to survive on earth. As Dr. James Hanson, former head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. and one of the most respected climatologists in the world, said of our situation: “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that [...]

By nicolesandler|April 22nd, 2014|Tags: 350 ppm, climate change, Desi Doyen, Earth Day, GottaLaff, Green News Report, journalism, Keystone XL, Randi Rhodes|2 Comments

False Equivalencies (Yes Ed Schultz, I’m Talking To You)

Regular listeners of my show know that I've, at times, been critical of Ed Schultz. But nothing I've seen or heard from him before raised my ire as his segment last night on the Keystone XL pipeline. I happened to catch him shilling for the project with former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer on a couple of occasions, and was incensed when he basically concluded that even if the US acted responsibly with regard to the future of the planet, other countries like China and India won't, so we might as well reap the monetary profits from raping the earth. But [...]

By nicolesandler|March 5th, 2014|Tags: Desi Doyen, Ed Schultz, false equivalency, Green News Report, hypocrisy, Keystone XL pipeline, media fail, renewable energy, shill, Susie Madrak, tar sands, Ukraine|1 Comment

To Serve and Protect… or Not

Saving the Planet – And Ourselves (04/22/2014)

False Equivalencies (Yes Ed Schultz, I’m Talking To You)

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