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America’s Nuclear Nightmare: Hanford Cleanup Now $112 Billion
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 10, 2012Truthdig – The Great Carbon Bubble
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 10, 2012Syngenta PR’s Weed-Killer Spin Machine: Investigating the Press and Shaping the “News” about Atrazine
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 10, 2012NYT (5): National News
Some exceptions re new homeowner bailout; Rich/poor gap in education growing; Coming soon to your faucet: treated wastewater; Historic moment as Kodak says it will no longer make cameras; OWS protesters interrupt school board meeting.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 10, 2012
NYT (6): National News
Prop 8 is struck down by fed appeals court; Study finds U.S. Muslims no threat re terrorism; PA sets local taxes on fracking; Santorum up, Gingrich down, Romney stable; Manhattan D.A. drops rape charges against Commish Kelly's son; 30-year NYC battle over loitering (homeless) arrests ends.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, February 8, 2012
NYT (5): National News
Initially opposed to it, Obama, seeing reality, relents on SuperPAC; GOP sees politics in Chrysler Superbowl ad, but Eastwood says "balderdash"; Cuomo decision on fracking likely to be postponed; Georgia Supreme Court ruling on assisted suicide likely to rekindle debate; NYS Senate moves to reinstate church services in schools.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, February 7, 2012
NYT (5): National News
Ron Paul sets off firestorm with religious requirement for caucus; Colorado moves to undermine fed law on environment; School-based congregations bemoan new NYC law; NYC defends "scary" health ads; Giants win the Superbowl.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 6, 2012
NYT (6): Foreign Affairs
U.S. closes embassy in Syria; Obama/Clinton fail to get Egypt to rescind legal action against Americans; U.S. drones out of control in Pakistan?; European activists fight their own "SOPA"; Failing French economy leads to gains for far right; Wicked cold snap kills hundreds in Europe.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 6, 2012
Cancer Clusters in America
This is an interactive map from Worldlifeexpectancy.com showing cancer rates by county and state - Black cancer cluster areas cover the south from Virginia to North Florida to Oklahoma to Louisiana. Maine also fares poorly as does Montana, Alaska and Ohio. The group says, "We believe there are many lifestyle factors that contribute to America's cancer problem, but if there were no environmental factors cancer death rates would be more evenly distributed across the country than they are. We [believe] environmental factors have been poorly investigated in the past and strongly support more rigorous testing in the future" - mab .. read morePosted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, February 6, 2012
NYT (3): National News
Can we afford to ignore the economic doomsayers a second time?; It's IL vs. Army Corps of Engineers re safety of levees; NYPD shooting of unarmed boy leads to questionable detention of sole witness: his grandmother.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 5, 2012
Scientist Barred From Revealing ‘Significant Information’ About Dolphin Deaths
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012NYT (4): National News
Fall in jobless rate plays into Obama's hands; Increasingly paranoid Tea Party finds new bogeyman: U.N. "green" plan; NYPD Commish Kelly in hottest water yet; Amid growing opposition, Florida scraps casino bill.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 4, 2012
NYT (6): Int’l Affairs
Post-soccer violence continues in Egypt for third day; Russia and China veto U.N. bill re Syria, right after attack that kills 200; Hacker group "Anonymous" hacks an FBI-Scotland Yard phone call about... "Anonymous"; E.U. looks to create roadblock re Google's new privacy rule; Putin aide says roots of protests are "foreign"; U.N. says Somali famine is over, though violence continues.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 4, 2012
“Gasland” Director Josh Fox on Democracy Now – Part 1
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, February 3, 2012
“Gasland” Director Josh Fox on Democracy Now – Part 2
Josh Fox: Obama’s Support for Natural Gas Drilling "A Painful Moment" for Communities Exposed to Fracking
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, February 3, 2012
NYT (9): National News
SuperPac secrecy - the spawn of Citizens United; Indiana gov signs "right to work" bill; Washington to become 7th state to approve same-sex marriage; Keystone pipeline is central to GOP economic argument; Three states order insurers to have climate change responses; Despite directive, pot arrests are up again in NYC; "Pink ribbon" breast cancer org finds itself red-faced as it ends funding for Planned Parenthood; NRC rejects Indian Point fire safety plan; Company behind exchange students who filed lawsuit re working conditions is barred from further biz.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 2, 2012
At Hearing on “Fracking,” Capitol Police Arrest Director of “Gasland”
Sari Gelzer at Truthout ..On Wednesday, House Republicans ordered Capitol police to arrest Josh Fox, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Gasland," along with his crew. The group was attempting to film a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment that was to discuss hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking" .. Fox faces a court hearing on February 15 on charges of "unlawful entry." As an independent filmmaker, Fox called on congress to make all meetings and hearings accessible to independent journalists. "The truth that fracking contaminates groundwater is out, and no amount of intimidation tactics - either outright challenges to science or the arrest of journalists - will put the genie back in the bottle," he stated.we're being China-fied in the US - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 2, 2012
Pesticides Blamed for Bee Decline
Jonathan Owen reports in The Independent ..Compelling new evidence from the US government's top bee expert that modern pesticides may be a major cause of collapsing bee populations led to calls yesterday for the chemicals to be banned. A study published in the current issue of the German science journal Naturwissenschaften, reveals how bees given minute doses of [Bayer's] widely used pesticide imidacloprid became more vulnerable to infections from a deadly parasite, nosema. Bee experts described this as clear evidence of the role pesticides play in the plight of bees. Although research into the furry insects may seem like a very academic exercise, bees are vital to human survival. More than 70 of the 100 crops that provide 90 per cent of the world's food are pollinated by bees, and Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees died out, "man would have no more than four years to live.".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Truthdig – Corporations Have No Use for Borders – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 31, 2012NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Worst-ever drought plus massive cold snap in Mexico affecting millions; General strike over austerity measures paralyzes Belgium; Wherewith Tunisia, first of the Arab Spring countries?Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Adbusters: Spiritual Insurrection, the Ultimate Culture Jam
We awoke one morning to the dark realization that humanity is being dragged into a black hole of ecological, financial and spiritual catastrophe … that our democracy has been seized by a corporatocracy … that every day two hundred species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become forever extinct … that a deluge of advertising is sleepwalking our civilization to the brink of insanity … and that unless we fight back in the most visceral and creative way possible all will be lost.- Adbusters
And yet, what sets our struggle apart in 2012 is that we are not fighting to save a distant future. We are not trying to prevent some terrible event that is still to come. This is not about our unborn grandchildren. Instead, many of us sense that the threshold has already been crossed; the tipping point has already happened and what we are fighting for is our present. We are living in that tragic moment of eerie stillness where the fatal damage has been done, widening cracks can be seen, yet the edifice still stands and business as usual continues … but for how much longer?
Our days may be shadowed by this dark realization, but there is reason to be deeply optimistic for “where danger is, grows the saving power also.” Never before has the tantalizing possibility of a Global Spring, a worldwide people’s insurgency for democracy, seemed as close. For perhaps the first time in human history, we just might be on the edge of an everywhere-at-once revolution against the financial fraudsters, corporate lackeys and the ideology of consumerism that has brought the Earth to the precipice of collapse.
In this, the era of the total and transcendent indignato swarm, we look to each other, not to the masters above, to find out what it will take to pull off the ultimate culture jam: spiritual insurrection.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition | Consortiumnews
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 30, 2012NYT (6): National News
Did Occupy Oakland initiate the violence this time?; How "deep" will DC allow Schneiderman & Co. to get?; New report shows much less natural gas than originally thought; Which is slower, the post office or a FOIA request?; Barnes & Noble hangs on for dear life; The privacy dangers of social networking.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, January 29, 2012
NYT Op-Eds (5)
"Miktch Daniels did say something thought-provoking — and I mean that in the worst way" (Krugman); "It was only a matter of time before the erratic and unpredictable Newt Gingrich of the ’90s took center stage in the Republican presidential contest" (Blow); "Polls are finding that Americans seem less upset by the existence of income inequality than by the perception that federal policies unfairly favor the rich" (Kohut); "To halt the erosion of the delta wetlands, Congress must give gulf states the billions in penalties expected from the BP oil spill" (Guest Op-Ed); "President Obama seems sure of himself, but where’s the big agenda? It wasn’t in the State of the Union address" (Brooks)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 28, 2012
NYT (8): National News
Schneiderman & Co. get right to work issuing subpoenas; Was victory over SOPA/PIPA the result of "Lobbying 2.0?"; Economy grew faster than expected; Waning subsidies for wind and solar; Comparing pot to alcohol, CO hopes to pass relaxed regs on former; As Bloomberg deals with firestorm over anti-Muslim film, the sordid history of the NYPD vs. the facts; RI teen dealing with backlash over successful lawsuit against prayer posted in school.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, January 28, 2012
