Headlines - Monday August 29

The Tea Party is the Christian extremist, and full-bore racist, wing of the Republican Party. Except for the 27 percenters, normal people now hate them.

 

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Common Dreams: Cesium in Incinerator Dust Across East Japan

 

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There is No Moral Case for Tax Havens: They are the epitome of unfairness and injustice, leaving ordinary citizens to foot the bill for multinational corporations

 

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In the latest example of worthlessness, The Drudge Report puts up a headline decrying Hurricane Irene as a "phony hurricane." If you want to make yourself stupid, just drink. It's more fun.

 

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Via Kevin Drum, here's a chart showing peak oil production throughout the world.

How an eventual decline in oil production will create mayhem with the world economy:

Global production of oil has hit a ceiling — or, at best, will grow very slowly for the next few years on its way to a ceiling in 2015 or 2020 or so — and this is going to cause severe volatility in the global economy. As world GDP grows, demand for oil increases and bumps up against the supply ceiling, prices spike upward, and the world goes into recession. Demand for oil then decreases a bit, the economy recovers, rinse and repeat.

The sooner we shitcan fossil fuels as an energy source, the sooner we'll be on the vanguard of an all new green energy economy.

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Don Davis: Cheney insists on doing book tour through Hurricane Irene

"IN ORDER FOR READERS TO REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT I STAND FOR, THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN TO HAVE THEM FEEL AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO BEING WATERBOARDED."

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Skippy's environmental news stories Sunday.

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Fuck this guy

Republican Barack Obama says filthy tar sands pipeline is great

The difference between the environmental policies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush? You expected it to be bad with Bush Jr. Today, the White House is surrounded with people protesting the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. Here's how Rep. Henry Waxman described it: "This pipeline is a multi-billion dollar investment to expand our reliance on the dirtiest source of transportation fuel currently available." He was one of 50 in Congress to officially protest to Hillary Clinton, who as secretary of state has jurisdiction over this dirty nightmare being extended from Canada's filthy earth-raping tar sands extraction pits to the American Midwest. Says the Politico just now: "The Obama administration is working overtime to fight the perception that it's dissing green groups and rubber-stamping a controversial 1,700-mile oil pipeline." Well that sounds about right for Obama, working at the last minute on the perception of something rather than its reality. READ MORE »

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Proven lies Fox news has reported in the past year 

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Hey! Who likes white people?

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Maureen Dowd, self-appointed Queen Bee Mean Girl of the Villagers' lunchroom, is the perfect reviewer for Darth Cheney's new book

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Why, yes, readers! That is in fact an op-ed piece in the Politico by… Chuck Norris.

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Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-Moron) told The Associated Press Sunday that as president, she would approve drilling for oil and natural gas in the Everglades

Oh, and she also suggested God used the hurricane and last week's earthquake to tell politicians to cut spending: 

"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."

It's ironic that God would use a hurricane to send a memo about cutting government spending, considering that the damage it causes it likely going to increase government spending. Meanwhile, religious leaders from disparate faith organizations have come out against further spending cuts on services for the poor.

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Pastor Mikey wants to put people on some kind of twisted perversion of an enemies list.

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For the right, ideology trumps common sense.

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House Republicans plan to hold votes nearly every week this fall to repeal environmental, health, and labor regulations they claim are stifling job growth. The main targets will be new rules from the National Labor Relations Board and pollution regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) memo to GOP members.

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Craig Ferguson joked last week about Hurricane Irene: "Our thoughts, of course, are with everyone on the East Coast preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Irene. In Washington, D.C., thousands have been left with no power. They're called Democrats."

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Random muslim becomes millionth 'al Qaeda #2' after robot kills him

Anything besides hurricane news today? Yes! The Pentagon or the CIA or whatever corporation runs the robot death drone planes that constantly rain bombs on brown people throughout the world just announced that about a week ago, one of those robot death drone planes dropped a couple of million-dollar bombs somewhere and one of those bombs blew up a random Muslim or Arab (both?) somewhere, and this guy … let's see, "Atiyah Abd al-Rahman," yep he turned out to be the latest "Number Two Al Qaeda," perhaps the Assistant Chief Financial Officer or whatever, on August 22, when he was apparently killed. READ MORE »