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A major report was released this week on the potential impacts of climate change on three major Asian cities. The news isn’t good. These three major coastal cities alone (all with populations of 10 million or more) — Bangkok, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City — could suffer billions in dollars of damage (not to [...]
Sometimes its nice to get a bird’s eye view to visualize who’s funding what and how corporations are related to individual political action committees that are pouring millions to get specific outcomes. Oil Change International has an amazing new interactive web resource that exposes the dirty energy and other money behind California’s Propositions 23, 25, [...]
I’m imagining the scenario in my mind’s eye: Joel Francis, the Cal State senior who challenged billionaire Charles Koch to meet him “anytime, anywhere in the state before election day” to debate California’s Prop 23, shows up Tuesday afternoon at the office of Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. Ding-dong. “Hello?” “Yes, this is Joel Francis, [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people are getting ready to attend the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in Washington D.C. this weekend. The official event is being organized by political satirists John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and hopes to inject some civility and reason back into our nation’s political discourse. Saturday’s rally on the National [...]
Tonight Dr. Rachel Maddow narrates a gripping documentary which chronicles the abuse and brutal murder of Doctor George Tiller in Kansas last year. The film relates in detail how relentless anti-abortion rights religious extremists stalked, threatened and assaulted Dr. Tiller for decades; they not only harassed him, his family and co-workers, but also frequently came [...]
