Friday, 8 October 2010
Monday, 4 October 2010
From Rolling Stone
Tea & Crackers
How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
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Tea & Crackers
How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
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Sunday, 3 October 2010
Saturday, 2 October 2010
The efforts to save a species from BP oil oblivion;
The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade
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The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade
...The hatchlings from this season’s first nests, however, were on schedule to scramble into the Gulf of Mexico only a few months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, at what looked to be the height of one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. By June, the sargassum in that part of the gulf was heavily oiled. Soon, it appeared to be largely gone: incinerated in controlled burns, maybe, or hauled up by skimmer boats. And so state and federal wildlife agencies came up with a radical plan. Sea-turtle eggs laid on beaches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle would be dug up during their very last days of incubation, packed into Styrofoam coolers and shipped to a climate-controlled warehouse at the Kennedy Space Center on the opposite coast of Florida. There, after hatching, the baby turtles would be released into the oil-free Atlantic. When I arrived in Alabama in late July, tens of thousands of turtle eggs, from hundreds of nests, were already in the process of being relocated — all during a point in their development when even a slight jolt to the egg could be lethal. In short, America was orchestrating the migration of an entire generation of sea turtles, slow and steady, overland, in a specially outfitted FedEx truck...
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Friday, 1 October 2010
5 Ways Dems Can Turn It Around
-Michael Moore
Sure, they brought this on themselves, but they’re still worth saving. Michael Moore on five ways Democrats can pull off an upset in November—starting with criminal charges for Wall Street.
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-Michael Moore
Sure, they brought this on themselves, but they’re still worth saving. Michael Moore on five ways Democrats can pull off an upset in November—starting with criminal charges for Wall Street.
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