Greenpeace Australia activists painted coal ships waiting in a queue at Hay Point port in Queensland with messages saying “Stop coal expansion”, “Barrier Reef Gone”, “Ice caps gone” and “Rudd exporting CO2″.     Full Story…

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After successful campaigns in New Zealand and the Philippines, the Rainbow Warrior spent 21 days in Thailand as part of the “Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution Tour” promoting solutions to climate change. The tour included human banners, port blockades and a visit to the Ministry of Energy.     Full Story…

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This is a nice little case report from the European Journal
of Psychiatry.  The translation is a little rough,
but the information is good.

Neuroleptic
malignant syndrome: Possible relationship between Neuroleptic Treatment
And Smoking Cessation Mª José Martín Vázquez PhD MPsych*, Teresa Jimeno
Beltrán MD** Eur. J. Psychiat. v.21 n.4  Zaragoza
oct.-dic. 2007

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I just can’t escape them. Even when I want to, even when I’d like to take a break, they’re there.
The anti-vaccine nutcases.
This time around, they showed up at, of all places, Netroots Nation, where the deceptively named National Vaccine Information Center, an explicitly antivaccination group that spreads nothing but lies, set up a booth. Fortunately, […]

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