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Tar Sands protest in DC

Three People Lock Themselves Inside a TD Bank in DC

Early this morning three people locked themselves inside a TD Bank branch in Washington, DC. TD Bank is one of TransCanada’s largest shareholders and is bankrolling the toxic Keystone XL pipeline.

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53 Kleptocrats

Majority of senators back Keystone XL pipeline

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of more than half the 100-member Senate has urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would connect Canadian oil sands to refineries in Texas.

44 Republicans, 9 Democrats, all kleptocrats. Read below the fold...

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Quinoa: North (demand) v. South (depletion) + Agro-Looters in Paradise

Another "globalization" (Agro-Looting) nightmare. This one hits very close to home, viz., my frequent bowls of quinoa at home, and my love for asparagus.

http://www.alternet.org/print/food/can-healthy-food-eaters-stomach-uncom... Read below the fold...

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Time for Al Gore to get arrested

Millennials Occupy TransCanada Offices Across the US

More than 100 young people stormed a TransCanada office in Houston, Texas on Monday as part of a Tar Sands Blockade mass action targeting company offices across the United States. Blockaders streamed into the Houston office, occupying the space with their own hand-crafted “KXL pipe monster.”

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Court finds in favor of the EPA regulating greenhouse gases

Al Gore

“An appeals court in D.C. today rejected an attempt by the fossil fuel industry to gut a critical EPA pollution rule.”

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Keystone Senators

BI-PARTISAN SENATORS URGE PRESIDENT TO IGNORE SCIENCE

Based on the same publicly available scientific information, the World Bank issues a report calling for prompt action to ward off global warming, a coalition of the world’s largest investors calls on governments to act promptly to ward off global warming, the United Nations reports that greenhouse gas levels reached a new record, and eighteen United States Senators (nine from each party) write a letter to President Obama calling on him to approve expanded fossil fuel exploitation without regard for global warming.

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Nuclear explosion tests

U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Keeps Conducting 'Nuclear Tests' and Mentioning Them Well After the Fact Read below the fold...

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Highly Enriched Stupid

A thousand monkeys, stabbing at keys since the invention of the typewriter, could never come up with a sentence as tongue-floppingly dumb as this one found in comments here:

As for the public input, that was already taken care of in 1849, if you weren't there, then shut your yap!

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Help needed for petition gathering and signing to Ban Fracking in Michigan

Contact the group here.
Please, if you are in the state, or have friends or family here, spread the word! Read below the fold...

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Climate deniers hall of shame

Top US companies shelling out to block action on climate change

Analysis of 28 companies finds cases of support for thinktanks that misrepresent climate science, including Heartland Institute

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One + One = Two (Not Too Wonkish)

After reading one of my rants about the stupidity of policies aiming at a balanced budget, somebody in my Facebook environment, commented by saying: “1 + 1 = 2.” Here's my answer.

Yes, 1+1 = 2.

Now here's an accounting identity from macroeconomics, called the Sectoral Financial Balances (SFB) model:

Domestic Private Balance + Domestic Government Balance + Foreign Balance = 0.

It's like 1 + 1 = 2. But just slightly more "wonkish." Read below the fold...

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Leaky Koch Disease

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So an insider has unceremoniously dumped a number of internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a Koch front group. And it's a doozy. People are making a fuss over the "controversy" based climate denialism, but that's so obvious, it's not what intrigued me. Read below the fold...

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