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Jan 17, 2011, 5:47 am
Opponents to Fracking Disclosure Take Big Money From Industry by Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica, Jan. 14, 2011, 2:46 p.m. 5:28 p.m.: This post has been corrected Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2011, 8:28 pm
Truer words were never spoken…….. Source: Media Matters| David Brock TRANSCRIPT: BROCK: This morning you released a video condemning your critics for highlighting the danger posed by the Right’s stoking of anti-government anger and violence. You attacked those who, like me, are concerned that ... Comment - Like
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Dec 7, 2010, 11:45 am
About The Video: Source: LewisforWV Caught this guy dumping Frac Fluid on Rt 19 approximately 4 miles north of Washington, PA. He was parked and out of the truck with water running when I drove by. I had my video camera because I was on my way to my son’s hockey game at Bethel Park. When Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2010, 1:57 pm
Source: by Jennifer Mueller | Causes This weekend 60 Minutes aired an investigative story about the dangers of a largely-unregulated method of extracting natural gas from shale miles below the Earth’s surface – known as “fracking” – and the dangers it poses to drinking water, our health, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2010, 2:54 pm
Heads-up folks the Leonid’s are here, don’t know where to look? View sky-map here Video below has some historical background on the Leonids: Even more here and Happy watching! Filed under: Astronomy, Education, Entertainment, Fun, International News, Local, Nature, News, Night Sky, North Car... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2010, 12:33 pm
This must be the same Ad firm T. Boone Pickins uses. Two advertising geniuses come to help the Chevron executives plot to trick you into thinking they are going green when they are doing the exact opposite. Funny or Die: Anatomy of a Greenwash , posted with vodpod For more information please go... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 11:31 pm
All but one of the hydraulic fracturing companies that received voluntary information requests in September have agreed to submit timely and complete information to help the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conduct its study on hydraulic fracturing. Halliburton is the only one that failed t... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 8:28 pm
Every once in a while a dialogue comes through (via comments) on a post that is worthy of further debate. Below is just the kind of dialogue I’m refering to. I hope you will agree. Save_PIADC writes: Thanks for your coverage. The internal DHS Study Committee (SSRA) was about as close to an Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 7:12 pm
Source: by Marie C. Baca | ProPublica Citing health and environmental concerns, the Pittsburgh, Pa., city council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban natural gas drilling within the city limits. It is the first such ban in a Pennsylvania city. The 9-0 vote received a standing ovation, according to the... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 12:42 am
A report released today by the National Research Council, solidified concerns brought forth by two grassroot, non-profits who opposed and fought the placement of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) from being sited in North Carolina and Georgia. Both groups, the Granville Non Viole... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2010, 10:30 pm
A FREE showing of the Sundance Award Winning Documentary film Gasland co-hosted by Clean Water for NC and the Granville Non-Violent Action Team (GNAT). The showing will include a brief discussion of how hydraulic fracturing for natural gas from deep deposits could effect your region of North Carol... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 2:39 pm
Sources: NOW ON PBS | GASLAND Will the boom in natural gas drilling contaminate America’s water supply? NOW talks with filmmaker Josh Fox about ‘Gasland’, his Sundance award-winning documentary on the surprising consequences of natural gas drilling. In the debate over energy resources, natura... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2010, 12:38 am
Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab Source: By Scott Thill | AlterNet Posted on November 2, 2010, Printed on November 3, 2010 Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an ep... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2010, 11:09 am
Would it surprise you to learn that Natural gas deposits, lie buried less than a mile deep throughout parts of Southern Granville, Durham, Wake and Orange counties? Moreover, according to Clean Water for NC, 14 counties in NC have Natural gas deposits trapped in prehistoric geological formatio... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2010, 2:23 am
Source: By Silvia Ribeiro La Jornada | Pravda A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwa... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2010, 11:20 pm
Source: Washington’s Blog The FDA is close to approving genetically modified (gm) salmon. See this and this. We know that at least some genetically modified foods may harm the environment. See this. And serious questions have been raised about whether some gm foods might increase allergies or cau... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 3:07 pm
Hydro-Fracking aka Hydraulic fracturing is an industry-wide process in which large volumes of unknown chemicals, water and sand are injected at extremly high pressure to extract natural gas from underground rock formations. Basically, the process creates fractures in bed-rock formations such as... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 1:44 am
Filed under: Entertainment, Media, Music, Video Tagged: Anastacia, Not that knid of Girl Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2010, 1:45 am
Kudos goes to Robert K. Schaeffer of Manhattan, Kansas for a moment of critical thinking regarding the National Bio and Agro Defense Factiliy, (NBAF) and it’s risk to the community of Manhattan,KS. NBAF risk Proponents of National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility argue that the risk is low of... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2010, 6:55 pm
I can’t help but think, if we (the media) stop talking about this coalition of mouth-breathers they will go away…….far away. Moreover, this is just another example why these so called “Churches” should lose their tax exempt status. Tax payers should not be forced t... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2010, 12:21 pm
Bob Cesca, Host of the Bob and Elvis show, recently wrote an Op-Ed over at the Huffington Post that supports the reasoning behind the photo to the right; The goal is simple re-write history and scare the white people by manufacturing the racial boogie man. You know “a guy who has a deep-s... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2010, 5:02 pm
By Rady Ananda Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton ... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2010, 4:53 pm
This case has been on going for 5 years (Delay was indicted in 2005)! If it was one of us common folk, we would all ready be sporting an orange jumpsuit, not to mention what it has cost the taxpayers. Source: RawStory|AP DeLay heads to Texas court in money laundering case, days after DOJ ends p... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 11:50 am
Source: Indiana University Media Relations Every three years, the same phase of the moon happens on about the same date of each month. The annual Perseid meteor shower of August last happened in a moonless sky in 2007, so this year if the sky is clear when the Perseids peak before dawn on Aug. 12... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 9:43 am
Source: Barbara O’ Brien | Guest Contributor Americans assume the new health care reform act will benefit mostly the poor and uninsured and hurt everyone else, according to polls. As Matt Yglesias wrote, “Basically, people see this as a bill that will take resources from people who have h... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 6:42 am
Source: WRAL The North Carolina Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation Monday to shutter hundreds of new businesses that bill supporters argue are offering just another form of illegal video poker where people buy phone or Internet time, then play games on computer screens to win cash and priz... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 11:18 pm
Source: BBC The bio-tech company Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds before safety tests on them are completed, the US Supreme Court has ruled. A lower court had barred the sale of the modified alfalfa seeds until an environmental impact study could be carried out. But seven of the nine Sup... Comment - Like
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Jun 18, 2010, 1:45 pm
I just ran across this story by Maya Rodriguez of WWL4 – Eyewitness News in Louisiana, that peaked my curiosity. Did you catch the response from the chemist, who is a local environmental consultant? Wilma Subra, a chemist who heads up a lab and environmental consulting firm in New Iber... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2010, 10:13 am
Hurricane, Berm? which will win? Filed under: Activism, Agro News, Bi-partisan stupidity, Blogging, BP, Civil Rights, Environmental, Environmental Justice, Government, Green, Legal, Media, Nature, News, North Carolina, Oil, Opinion, Political propaganda, Politics, Public Health Tagged: BP spill, Rac... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 12:33 pm
Video Transcript below: MADDOW: Tom Costello from NBC News got a one-on-one interview with Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP, on board a BP helicopter. And Tom asked a bunch of what I have been dying to ask BP. Among his great pointy questions was one about the mythical Caribbean w... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 2:12 pm
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) appeared unreceptive to the question of an anonymous reporter this weekend, when he grabbed the self-identified “student” after he asked the congressman if he “fully supported the Obama agenda.” In the video, the North Carolina lawmaker is seen app... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2010, 11:34 pm
Additional charges have been filed against the “girlfriend”, who according to Granville County Sheriff Brindell B. Wilkins, accompanied suspected burglar Clayton “Clay” Michael Ellington, 29, during a recent attempted home invasion on Dove Road in Creedmoor, NC. According to co... Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 12:06 pm
This is what happens when engineers own dogs. more about "Automatic Fetching Machine, For the d…", posted with vodpod Filed under: Uncategorized Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 10:14 am
Dennis Miller has truly drank the koolaid and Jon Stewart pipes in on Gaza. more about "POLITICO Payback 6/3/10", posted with vodpod Filed under: BP, Chuck Grassley, Congress, Dave Camp, Jake Sherman, Johnny Isakson, Mike Coffman, Mike Crapo, Oil, Pat Toomey, Richard Burr, Roy Blunt, Texas Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 6:56 pm
“Yes, you heard that right. Drilling projects in the entire central and western Gulf of Mexico have what the government calls a “categorical exclusion” from detailed environmental studies. The Gulf, by the way, is where most of the nation’s offshore drilling takes place. (Here’s a hand... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 11:43 am
Update As of last evening (June 2) sources close to Richard, tell BBS he continues to be in stable condtion at Duke University hospital but has not yet had surgery to address the injuries he suffered during the home invasion. ... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2010, 5:08 pm
Source: Huffington Post Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the nation’s worst oil spill, and BP lost billions in market value when shares dropped in the first trading day since the company failed yet again to pl... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 6:17 pm
more about "Funny or Die’s Coverage of the BP Oil…", posted with vodpod Filed under: Uncategorized Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 1:29 pm
Safety Rules Can’t Keep Up With Biotech Industry Source: By ANDREW POLLACK and DUFF WILSON | New York Times They are the highly trained, generally well-paid employees in the vanguard of American innovation: people who work in biotechnology labs. But the cutting edge can be a risky place to work. T... Comment - Like
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May 22, 2010, 6:59 pm
Enjoy Filed under: Audio, Entertainment, Fun, Media, Music, Video Tagged: Laura Love Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 5:08 pm
In a Press Release this past week, Congressman Tim Bishop of New York stated that it is “highly unrealistic” that the sale of Plum Island (PIADC) at an ”estimated value of $50-80 million could possibly cover the over $650 million cost of constructing NBAF”. “Highly Unrealistic&... Comment - Like
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