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Feds failing in duty to protect water from oilsands development

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Canada.com - By Mike De Souza - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - The Harper government is failing to enforce federal law and exercise its constitutional authority in at least 10 different aspects of monitoring the exploitation of Alberta’s oilsands and its impact on water, says a new report to be released Monday.

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Some businesses waste more than £1m a year on excess energy, carbon trading trial finds

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

yorkshirepost.co.uk - By Tom Palmer - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - A PIONEERING carbon trading programme in Yorkshire has revealed some businesses are wasting more than a £1m a year on excess energy and would face six figure fines under future legislation.

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Unrest mounts as China mine death rises

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Manila Times - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Relatives of victims angrily demanded answers Monday as hopes of finding more survivors after China’s worst mining disaster for two years took a blow with the death toll rising to 104. Rescuers recovered 12 more bodies, a spokesman for the mine in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province said, leaving four miners still unaccounted for after the weekend blast.

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House Proposal Would Allow Feds To Break Up Biggest Banks

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Shahien Nasiripour - Nov. 18 (News Report) - A key House Democrat released on Wednesday his much-awaited proposal to end "too big to fail": Let the federal government break them apart. Paul Kanjorski's amendment would give federal regulators the authority to force the country's biggest financial firms or those that pose the biggest risk to the financial system to sell assets or entire divisions.

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Docudrama

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By Jonathan Cohn - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - Sometime in August, McKinsey & Company created a PowerPoint document called “Health Care Reform and Implications for Key Stakeholders: What this Could Mean for Client X.” Over the course of 44 slides full of charts and graphs, the firm examines the potential impact of reform on insurers, doctors, hospitals, and the drug industry. McKinsey tells Client X that the presentation’s purpose is to “help inform your understanding of the broader healthcare system impact and what this might mean for your key customers and Client X going forward.” After a source supplied me with the document--which is marked “confidential”--I contacted McKinsey. A spokesperson told me that “Client X” is not a particular company. Instead, he explained, the document is a broad overview of how McKinsey expects health care reform to play out. (It also appears to be a presentation that McKinsey consultants could adapt based on a client’s particular situation.)

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GOP Blocks Freeze On Credit Card Interest Rate Hikes

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Nov. 18 (News) - Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic effort Wednesday to immediately freeze increases in credit card interest rates, fees and finance charges. Shortly after Democrats passed credit card reform legislation in May, the card companies began jacking up rates in advance of its implementation. Major parts of the act won't take effect until February and August of 2010. Earlier this month, to combat the rate hikes, the House passed legislation to move the effective date up to December 1st. The Senate moves much more slowly

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The Dirt on Worms

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

agweb.com - By Pam Smith - Nov. 18 (News Report) - The earthworm has long been considered the farmer’s friend. Their burrowing has always been thought to aerate the soil while their droppings provide fertilizer. No-till farmers count on these tireless workers to improve soil tilth. And on their worst day, earthworms sacrifice everything to land us a lunch from our favorite fishing hole

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Costco Stops Carrying Coca Cola Products

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Costco says it is no longer carrying Coca-Cola products in its stores nationwide due to a pricing dispute with the beverage maker.

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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his proposals to Nazi death camps or Soviet gulags — there's little overtly expressed racism. Aside from the occasional slip by Republican officials in South Carolina,...But implicit racism — prejudice unacknowledged in public and, in many cases, hidden from conscious awareness — is a factor in opposition to Obama's health policies

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Liberals cry ‘unfair’ after Fox orders unbalanced YouTube purge

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Nov. 13 (News) - The channel provided clips from all news networks, but often focused on Fox's controversial commentators.

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India eNews - Psychologists see images of brain's response to

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

indiaenews.com - By India eNews Staff - Nov. 12 (News Report) - For the first time psychologists were able to see exactly how the human brain responds to unexpected or traumatic events. The study could lead to procedures that could help identify people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Anti-Statism In America

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By John B. Judis - Nov. 11 (News Analysis) - Liberals and progressives have fared poorly in the face of this staunch anti-statist tradition, but there have still been periods when they have broken through and enacted major reforms--during Woodrow Wilson’s first term, Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, Lyndon Johnson’s first two years, and Richard Nixon’s first term. They succeeded for different reasons at different times, but several conditions recur.

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NEW YORK POST LAWSUIT: Shocking Allegations Made By Fired Employee

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Nov. 10 (News) - The New York Post editor fired after speaking out against a cartoon depicting the author of the president's stimulus package as a dead chimpanzee has sued the paper. And as part of her complaint, Sandra Guzman levels some remarkable, embarrassing, and

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Energy Lobbyists Seek Support From Veterans

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jenna Staul - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Environmentalists on both sides of the fight for climate change legislation are hoping to enlist veterans groups as a powerful lobbying tool.

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Protesters Return To Lieberman's Office, Five Arrested

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Five demonstrators were arrested after spreading fake dollar bills throughout the building showing Lieberman's face and the words "Insurance Money Kills Democracy."

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Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By John Nichols - Nov. 09 (News) - The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with ... support from progressive Democrats ... and from a president ... elected with the ... support of progressive voters. But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.

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Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By John Nichols - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Many sincere progressives in the House, and outside of it, chose to back the bill as the best that could be gotten. Others supported it on the theory that flaws could be fixed in the Senate and in the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills. But those repairs will only be made if activists are conscious of what ails this bill.

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Why I Voted No

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthDig - By Rep. Dennis Kucinich - Nov. 08 (News Report) - We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem.

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Stimulus for Cotton Candy, Tango and a Fish Orchestra? Wacky, or Actually Worthy?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Michael Grabell - Nov. 07 (Investigative Report) - Breakfast at Fuddruckers: $19.24. Snow cone and cotton candy machine: $146.89. Six extra preview performances of “Little House on the Prairie – the Musical”: $50,000. Benefit to the economy? According to the recipients of this stimulus money: Priceless.

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Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

mentalfloss.com - By Linda Rodriguez - Nov. 07 (Special Report) - the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one’s bum? That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A. In less than a century, Uncle Sam’s marketing genius turned something disposable into something indispensable.

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The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katherine Goldstein Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/exposed-the-worldwide-eff_n_346110.html?grist&cp&cp - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective global treaty from being reached at the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen in December, and to halt efforts in individual countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Helen Thomas: What has changed in the digital press corps ? My Register Experience

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

My Register Experience - By Michael Bugeja, Helen Thomas - Nov. 05 (Other) - In preparing the post, “Deadline Every Login,” I also received a reply from my former colleague and role model at United Press International, Helen Thomas. She wrote in the staccato of the teletype machine, in bursts that read like poetry–so much so, that I reprint her message as a “found poem” (all I did was cast her e-mail into lines and stanzas) in response to my question about what has changed in the digital press corps.

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The Greenest Place in the U.S. May Not Be Where You Think

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Yale Environment 360 - By David Owen - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - Green rankings in the U.S. don’t tell the full story about the places where the human footprint is lightest. If you really want the best environmental model, you need to look at the nation’s biggest — and greenest — metropolis: New York City.

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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, the UN Human Rights Committee said Friday.

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FCC Fine Print Could Undermine an Open Internet | Save the Internet

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

savetheinternet.com - By Tim Karr - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Buried in the fine print of the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules is a potential loophole that if left open would undermine the future of Internet freedom.

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