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Natural Born Drillers →
Republicans say gas would be cheap and jobs plentiful if we stopped protecting the environment and gave energy companies free rein. They’re wrong.
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“Shell chief executive Peter Voser earned more than £10m last year in pay and bonuses at a time of near-record oil prices and in a year when the firm was responsible for 207 oil spills – considerably more than the year before.” “The Anglo-Dutch group has cashed in on surging oil prices – which were more than $30 a barrel higher in 2011 than in 2010 – and booming demand for gas....
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Did you know...
              …that approximately 40 chemicals classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as known, probable, or possible human carcinogens, are used in EPA-registered pesticides now on the market? …that only active ingredients in pesticides are required to be tested for causing chronic diseases like cancer? For example, xylene is used as the inert ingredient in...
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November 2011
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Mississippi voters reject zygote personhood... →
motherjones: Score one for sanity.
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To those saying Occupy doesn't have a clear...
We, as in the American tax payers, gave our money to the big banks on Wall Street. These banks, their executives, engaged in poor  financial decisions which had drastic consequences for not only this country, but the world. And they ended up harming every American citizen.  We gave them over $800 billion of OUR money, our earned income doing jobs quite unlike the jobs of these bankers. If we had...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac executives get big housing... →
Seriously? 
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October 2011
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The Independent - Business as usual: top directors... →
Not only is this happening in the United States, it is happening abroad too. As someone who is rather knowledgable on the politics and economics, I completely support income inequality. But when this happens in a country over the course of 20 years?  Not okay. Great Britain, aside, America’s  Gini Coefficient in on par with Nigeria. Really, America? We’re a First World country, so...
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“The injury of any veteran is a serious concern to the broader veterans...”
– Paul Rieckhoff, director of IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America), issued a statement on the injury of Marine veteran Scott Olsen by a “police projectile” during an Occupy Oakland protest.  (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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Politicalprof: Wall Street Journal lies about... →
politicalprof: Andrew Gelman at the Monkey Cage has a nice piece up about a poll taken by Doug Schoen and discussed in the Wall Street Journal that purports to show the #Occupy movement is filled with radicals. Except, as Gelman points out, Schoen flatly misrepresented the findings of the poll. He didn’t…
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