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Rare Bears Endangered by Oil Pipeline There are only an estimated 400-1,000 Spirit or Kermode bears left in the whole world. They live in an undeveloped, beautiful forested area of coastal British Columbia. Now a proposed tar sands pipeline from Enbridge corporation could disrupt and eventually devastate their last remaining habitat if it is approved and constructed. “Under the plan, huge oil tankers, some as tall as an NYC skyscraper, would wend their way up winding, narrow waterways to Kitimat, which is coastal but not on the open sea, and load up on the viscous liquid, ” wrote the Indian Country Top Media Staff.
John Nichols Protesters in Wisconsin, 2011, where communities are voting to amend the constitution. (Darren Hauck/Reuters) Even as the US Supreme Court attempts to expand the scope and reach of the already dangerous dominance of our politics by billionaires and their willing servants, Americans are voting in overwhelming numbers against the new politics of dollarocracy. The headline of the week with regard to the campaign-finance debate comes from Washington, where a 5-4 court majority has—with its McCutcheon v.
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Supreme Court Case Could End Corporate March To Reinstatement of Slavery The title is striking but very accurate. It describes the march that America is on with corporations encroaching on our individual liberties. They do this even as they use propaganda to mislead Americans into believing that government is the infringer and that government regulation is impeding corporations to execute effectively to promote a good economy. Of course they should cherish said “infringement” since they are making record profits and the nation’s wealth is migrating towards those that are the corporate masters.
Amy Goodman: The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Amy Goodman Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia November 18, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Altercation Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) My new Nation column is called "The Right Loses It Over Russia—Again" and it notes that "Conservative hysteria over Putin's aggression in 2014 is eerily reminiscent of right-wing reaction to a previous Crimean adventure, at the dawn of the Cold War. Alter-reviews: Spring Quartet at Rose Hall Reed and I did not post last week so I have a number of shows to discuss. Projector Disguised as Camera Flashes Images Into Others’ Photos German inventor Julius von Bismarck refers to his potentially very disruptive brainchild as an “image fulgarator.” The verb, “fulgurate,” means, “to flash or dart like lightening.” According to Herr von Bismarck, himself, it works like this: Technically, the Image Fulgurator works like a classical camera, though in reverse.
Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin On Reinhart And Rogoff In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt." Their "main result is that...median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP are roughly one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean) growth rates are several percent lower." Countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above 90 percent have a slightly negative average growth rate, in fact.
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