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Sanders Calls for Repeal of Tax Breaks for Oil, Gas Industry

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Nicole Gaudiano

WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing a measure to end more than $35 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.

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Rob Los Ricos: Fascists on the move in Cascadia

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Wed, 2010-06-09

From Vancouver to Eugene, fascists have been boldly stepping forward. They have been holding weekly public events at the University of Oregon – the...

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Immigrant youths riot in Sweden, burning down school

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Wed, 2010-06-09

Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances. The tr...

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Food & agriculture - June 9

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

-Energy Use in the US & Global Agri-Food Systems: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture
-Advisers walk out in fury over £500,000 GM food PR exercise

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Special Advisor's Report on the Vancouver School Board

Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-06-09

Over on Policy Note, Keith Reynolds has outlined some of the problems with the recent report on the Vancouver School Board prepared by the Comptroller-General. Like, for example, the fact that the comptroller was appointed as a "special advisor" to carry out this review, and was instructed not to consider any issues related to provincial government funding for education... Hmm.

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Fixing Planet Earth: A Not-So-Modest Proposal

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

Mahatma Gandhi is widely regarded as the father of the Indian nation, which he was. But the founding of the nation was not his only aim.

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Watching the Protesters: The Spies Who Know Too Much

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Rick Anderson

SEATTLE - Phil Chinn's Ford Taurus moved along with the traffic on Highway 12,
heading west in Grays Harbor County and beneath the Devonshire
Overpass, where Washington State Patrol trooper Ben Blankenship was
waiting.

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Dissecting those ‘overpopulation’ numbers: Part Two: the perils of per capita

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

Continuing our examination of the misuse (deliberate or not) of numbers and statistics by advocates of the "too many people" explanation of environmental destruction.

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The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) oil spew demonstrates that we just don’t get it

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

The GOM oil spew reinforces the extent to which Americans “just don’t get it” regarding
the unsustainable nature of our American way of life.

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This oil spill, too, shall pass

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

You have been warned. This is a politically incorrect article.

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Can You Look Her in the iPad?

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Nick Harding

Even the most unenlightened consumers have a vague
ethical awareness when it comes to clothes and food.

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The Oil Drilling Moratorium

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-09

As catastrophes go, the flood of oil in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) ranks right up there. Today I'm going to look at the effects of the 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.

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After BP, A Closer Eye on Shale Drilling

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Jeremy Moule

NEW YORK - As the BP oil spill saga enters its
second month, the country continues to struggle with questions: how to
stop the leak, how to contain the environmental damage, what can be
done to make sur

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Arizona Blocked from Subsidizing State Candidates with 'Clean Election' Funds

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Robert Barnes

The Supreme Court stepped into another campaign finance controversy on
Tuesday when it blocked Arizona from distributing campaign subsidies to
publicly funded candidates facing big-spending opponents.

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Iranian Nuclear Scientist in Video Riddle

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-09

by Alex Spillius

Tehran summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents US interests in Tehran,
on Tuesday and handed over documents which it said showed Shahram Amiri, a
university researcher working for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, was
taken during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia an

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