Andrew Carter and Leslie Chasse shared a link.
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The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the recall election of Russell Pearce, the Republican president of the state Senate, could proceed.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Arizona Supreme Court allows recall of GOP Senate president Russell Pearce | The Raw Story
Arizona Supreme Court allows recall of GOP Senate president Russell Pearce | The Raw Story
Are our laws prepackaged or homegrown? Does it matter? — Maine Politics — Bangor Daily News
Are our laws prepackaged or homegrown? Does it matter? — Maine Politics — Bangor Daily News
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AUGUSTA, Maine — During the 2010 election, Republicans made gains in more state legislatures across the country than in any other election in nearly a century. Maine was particularly friendly to the GOP as voters handed Republicans the House, Senate and the governor’s office. With that power, Maine’...
Occupy Wall Street: Adbusters to Set Up Camp in the Next Tahrir Square? - The ITT List
Occupy Wall Street: Adbusters to Set Up Camp in the Next Tahrir Square? - The ITT List
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
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In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter.
The American Jobs Act — President Barack Obama's Jobs Plan
The American Jobs Act — President Barack Obama's Jobs Plan
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To create jobs, the President unveiled the American Jobs Act – nearly all of which is made up of ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, and that Congress should pass right away to get the economy moving now.
The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans – without adding a dime to the deficit.
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Wall Street's Worst Nightmare: Elizabeth Warren To Run For Senate | Mother Jones
Wall Street's Worst Nightmare: Elizabeth Warren To Run For Senate | Mother Jones
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Elizabeth Warren, consumer advocate and chief architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will announce on Wednesday that she will run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican, Scott Brown (R-Mass.).
Anti-Abortion Leader Suspended Over Financial Suspicions | Mother Jones
Anti-Abortion Leader Suspended Over Financial Suspicions | Mother Jones
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A Catholic bishop suspends Frank Pavone, the head of Priests for Life, citing "deep concerns" over the use of millions of dollars in donations.
Justice Prosser Will Recuse in Campaign Disclosure Case | Center for Media and Democracy
Justice Prosser Will Recuse in Campaign Disclosure Case | Center for Media and Democracy
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Embattled Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has unexpectedly announced he will recuse himself from an upcoming case involving a Tea Party challenge to proposed election disclosure rules. Prosser was asked to step down on conflict-of-interest grounds because his campaign attorney, James T...
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Republicans just... (1)
Republicans just... (1)
Republicans just voted down my motion to bring back the Assembly into session next Thursday to focus on jobs. While Wisconsin families are struggling to make ends meet, Republicans are only willing to work part-time to get our state working again.
The Heat is on Republicans as Outrage Grows - YouTube
The Heat is on Republicans as Outrage Grows - YouTube
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VIDEO: House Republicans continue to take heat from their constituents for their failed budget priorities and for choosing to protect millionaires over seniors' Medicare benefits.
The Heat is on Republicans as Outrage Grows - YouTube
The Heat is on Republicans as Outrage Grows - YouTube
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VIDEO: House Republicans continue to take heat from their constituents for their failed budget priorities and for choosing to protect millionaires over seniors' Medicare benefits.
Paul Krugman's Inappropriate 9/11 Post | Mother Jones
Paul Krugman's Inappropriate 9/11 Post | Mother Jones
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On the tenth anniversary of the brutal 9/11 attacks on the United States, Paul Krugman, in a short but scathing New York Times blog post, elected to use the occasion to remind us of those who have used the event to begin unnecessary wars and further their political careers.
Defend Wisconsin News Round Up: Progressive Historians: History For Our Future
Defend Wisconsin News Round Up: Progressive Historians: History For Our Future
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Welcome to the Wisconsin Protests News Source. Home of the daily Protest News Round Up, Protest Page of the Day, Protest Video of the Day, Prossergate and Vivian's Love Letters! Email news tips and original editorials to DefendWisconsinNews@gmail.com
'Assaulting Solidarity - Privatizing Education' by Noam Chomsky
'Assaulting Solidarity - Privatizing Education' by Noam Chomsky
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There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of years ago already, the big investment firms, like Le...
Peter King Laments First Amendment, Wants ‘Better Controls’ On Facebook, Twitter, And The Internet | ThinkProgress
Peter King Laments First Amendment, Wants ‘Better Controls’ On Facebook, Twitter, And The Internet | ThinkProgress
thinkprogress.orgToday, despite his prior advocacy for terrorism and his smears of Muslims, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) testified before a British parliamentary inquiry into the root causes of domestic Muslim radicalization. At one point, MP Keith Vaz asked King if he supports “better controls on the internet,” on sites ...
New GOP strategy:The Thin Man switches parties; Republicans run as both parties | Uppity Wisconsin
New GOP strategy:The Thin Man switches parties; Republicans run as both parties | Uppity Wisconsin
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Unsuccessful in the State Senate recalls at getting any fake Democrats nominated, the GOP is apparently testing a new technique in the LaCrosse race to replace Jennifer Schilling, who was elected to the Senate. The
Editorial: DOT should reverse misguided free ID direction | The Oshkosh Northwestern | thenorthwestern.com
Editorial: DOT should reverse misguided free ID direction | The Oshkosh Northwestern | thenorthwestern.com
Editorial: DOT should reverse misguided free ID direction | The Oshkosh Northwestern | thenorthweste
www.thenorthwestern.comAbraham Lincoln wisely observed, 'You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.'
Slide Show: Got Koch? Seven Products Fueling the Brothers' Right-Wing Agenda | The Nation
Slide Show: Got Koch? Seven Products Fueling the Brothers' Right-Wing Agenda | The Nation
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The brothers Charles and David Koch have long operated in the shadows of American business—David has even gone so far as to call their Koch Industries “the largest company that you’ve never heard of.” The libertarian brothers—who have had their hand in everything from the Citizens United Supreme Cou...
Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment
Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment
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We are a global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET at Manu Chao concert | Reflections on a Revolution ROAR
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET at Manu Chao concert | Reflections on a Revolution ROAR
We are a global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society.
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#OCCUPYWALLSTREET at Manu Chao concert
Two representatives of the 15-M movement went on stage to call for the occupation of Wall Street and a global day of action against the banks.
Massive thanks to Manu Chao (who is a staunch supporter of the Spanish indignados) for helping us spread the word! Próxima Estación: ¡Esperanza!
More info on #occupywallstreet at Adbusters. For an overview of the different anti-bank actions to be held around the world on September 17, visit our friends and partners at Take The Square.
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BBC News - New emotion detector can see when we're lying
BBC News - New emotion detector can see when we're lying
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A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, researchers say.
Can you handle Reality? | Climate Reality
Can you handle Reality? | Climate Reality
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24 Hours of Reality
24 Hours of Reality
Location: Streamed live at: climaterealityproject.org
Time: 9:00PM Wednesday, September 14th
The conservative game plan on energy subsidies | Grist
The conservative game plan on energy subsidies | Grist
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Some progressives and Democrats think they can work with Republicans to cut subsidies to dirty energy, but they're getting played.
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Defaming Wisconsin, Desecrating Democracy
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Defaming Wisconsin, Desecrating Democracy
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After exterminating any and all public election financing in the state budget and thus handing state elections over entirely to private interests, legislators took steps this week to make it harder for the public to see how special interests are funneling money into political advertising campaigns.
Protesters storm press conference on UW admissions report
Protesters storm press conference on UW admissions report
I will get more"Likes"than Scott Walker and 3 other friendsCindy Hadden
I will get more"Likes"than Scott Walker and 3 other friendsCindy Hadden
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Chanting “power to the people” and “we’re more than our scores,” more than 100 people late Tuesday morning took over
Protests Erupt in the US and Bolivia Targeting 'Progressive' Presidents Who Are Failing to Protect the Environment | Environment | AlterNet
Protests Erupt in the US and Bolivia Targeting 'Progressive' Presidents Who Are Failing to Protect the Environment | Environment | AlterNet
Protests Erupt in the US and Bolivia Targeting 'Progressive' Presidents Who Are Failing to Protect t
www.alternet.orgTogether these two actions highlight important, universal lessons about what it takes to press for protection of the planet, in countries both wealthy and impoverished.
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'It's Getting Hot in Here' Editor, Christine Irvine at Tar Sands Action. Source: Shadia Wood
"In many ways the two protests could not be more different. In Washington two weeks of daily protests by the well dressed and well educated, more than a hundred strong each day, stand before the White House. The participants sit together cross-legged for photos as they display their carefully printed banners. A hemisphere away in Bolivia, more than 1,500 indigenous peasants - men, women, and children - march along a dusty dirt road in the countryside, wearing cheap rubber sandals, faded skirts and tattered pants. They are headed on a weeks-long march to their nation's capital, La Paz.
And yet, on separate sides of the equator the protests share a profound commonality. Both take aim at Presidents labeled as progressive and historic, leaders who have used soaring rhetoric about the urgency of protecting the planet. Both protests involve an important part of the Presidents' respective political bases taking to the streets to hold them to that rhetoric. Together these two actions highlight important, universal lessons about what it takes to press for protection of the planet, in countries both wealthy and impoverished."
A Pipeline for Climate Poison and a Road through the Rainforest
Robert Reich Explains the Credit Downgrade in a Way Even the Tea Party Can Understand | Addicting Info
Robert Reich Explains the Credit Downgrade in a Way Even the Tea Party Can Understand | Addicting Info
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For your Tea Party friends, who believe that the United State's credit downgrade, from AAA to AA+ is a good thing, let the smartest guy in the room do the arguing for you (in a way that even they can understand).
Humans v. Corporations: Unequal Privacy | Truthout
Humans v. Corporations: Unequal Privacy | Truthout
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While the names of only a few of the participants in the Boston Tea Party are known today, more than 220 years later such anonymity is impossible. And without anonymity, the skeptics argue, anybody who would try to shift power away from corporations and back to the people can be neutralized before t...
barbwith's Channel - YouTube
barbwith's Channel - YouTube
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Democracy for America and Rebuild the Dream are running a scholarship competition to send 30 activisists to the Take Back the Dream Conference this October.
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"An explanation of how the crimes being committed in Wisconsin by the republican party could very well fall under RICO Act: Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organization Act. A response to WI Robin Vos, cochair of the joint finance committee, telling us he wants to make it hard to recall, that maybe we might have to prove criminal activity to justify holding a recall."
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Pensioner to display art of her penpals on Death Row | road2justice
Pensioner to display art of her penpals on Death Row | road2justice
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A British pensioner who became friends with some of the world's most dangerous death row rapists and murderers has decided to display a collection of their artwork in the UK. Winchester resident...
Illinois Death Row Shuts Down | road2justice
Illinois Death Row Shuts Down | road2justice
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After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois' death row officially died Friday when a state law abolish...
Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare - YouTube
Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare - YouTube
www.youtube.com
Democracy Now! speaks with MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky about the state of the U.S. economy as Obama calls on Congress to push through his job plan. He also comments on several statements made by GOP presidential candidates at last night’s debate organized by the Tea Party and CNN.
"DemocracyNow.org - President Obama sent his new jobs proposal to Congress on Monday with a plan to pay for the $447 billion package by raising taxes on the wealthy. Democracy Now! interviews MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, who says "huge military spending, a very low taxes by the rich [and corporations] ... those are problems, fundamental problems that have to be dealt with if there is going to be anything like successful economic and social development in the United States." As Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calls Social Security a "ponzi scheme," and Democrats buy into the narrative that the program is in crisis, Chomsky notes that, "To worry about a possible problem 30 years from now, which can incidentally be fixed with a little bit of tampering here and there, as was done in 1983, to worry about that makes absolutely no sense unless you're trying to destroy the program.""
For the complete transcript, to download the podcast, or for additional Democracy Now! reports about the U.S. economic crisis, visit http://www.democracynow.org
"DemocracyNow.org - President Obama sent his new jobs proposal to Congress on Monday with a plan to pay for the $447 billion package by raising taxes on the wealthy. Democracy Now! interviews MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, who says "huge military spending, a very low taxes by the rich [and corporations] ... those are problems, fundamental problems that have to be dealt with if there is going to be anything like successful economic and social development in the United States." As Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calls Social Security a "ponzi scheme," and Democrats buy into the narrative that the program is in crisis, Chomsky notes that, "To worry about a possible problem 30 years from now, which can incidentally be fixed with a little bit of tampering here and there, as was done in 1983, to worry about that makes absolutely no sense unless you're trying to destroy the program.""
For the complete transcript, to download the podcast, or for additional Democracy Now! reports about the U.S. economic crisis, visit http://www.democracynow.org
Fracking Hell: The Untold Story - YouTube
Fracking Hell: The Untold Story - YouTube
n original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains?
Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.
Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.
Waste from Pennsylvania gas wells -- waste that may also contain unacceptable levels of radium -- is routinely dumped across state lines into landfills in New York, Ohio and West Virginia. New York does not require testing waste for radioactivity prior to dumping or treatment. So drill cuttings from Pennsylvania have been dumped in New York's Chemung and other counties and liquid waste is shipped to treatment plants in Auburn and Watertown New York. How radioactive is this waste? Experts are calling are for testing to find out.
New York State may have been the first state in the nation to put a temporary hold on fracking pending a safety review, but it allows other states to dump toxic frack waste within its boundaries.
With a gas production boom underway in the Marcellus Shale and plans for some 400,000 wells in the coming decades, the cumulative impact of dumping potential lethal waste without adequate oversight is a catastrophe waiting to happen. And now U.S. companies are exporting fracking to Europe.
n original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains?
Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.
Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.
Waste from Pennsylvania gas wells -- waste that may also contain unacceptable levels of radium -- is routinely dumped across state lines into landfills in New York, Ohio and West Virginia. New York does not require testing waste for radioactivity prior to dumping or treatment. So drill cuttings from Pennsylvania have been dumped in New York's Chemung and other counties and liquid waste is shipped to treatment plants in Auburn and Watertown New York. How radioactive is this waste? Experts are calling are for testing to find out.
New York State may have been the first state in the nation to put a temporary hold on fracking pending a safety review, but it allows other states to dump toxic frack waste within its boundaries.
With a gas production boom underway in the Marcellus Shale and plans for some 400,000 wells in the coming decades, the cumulative impact of dumping potential lethal waste without adequate oversight is a catastrophe waiting to happen. And now U.S. companies are exporting fracking to Europe.
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