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Increased Wildland Fires; Decreased Slurry Bombers : That's Just Plain Dangerous.

By we are stardust on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 11:50am |
  The first-line defense against wildfires is retardant dropped from air tankers.  It often means the difference between stopping a fire early, or letting it spread, requiring additional ground crews and other kinds of air support.  Western states weather has...
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Reprint of Josh Silver's Hair-on-Fire Op-Ed on Net Neutrality

By we are stardust on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 6:10pm |
Josh Silver, President, Free Press "On Thursday, MoveOn and 34 progressive leaders and bloggers sent a letter to President Obama strongly urging him to keep his campaign promise to support Net Neutrality - the rule that prevents corporations from...
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Key to Success in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy [Gigglers will stay after class.]

By we are stardust on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 11:53am |
  Some of us hoped that when the President fired Stanley McChrystal that there might be a pause to reflect on the Mission in Afghanistan; to consider the advisability of a nine-year war Americans are starting to turn away...
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"This (financial reform) bill is the worst of both worlds." *Please watch this video!*

By we are stardust on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 1:55pm |
That's a quote about the Dodd-Frank bill that will go to the floor of both houses next week.  It's from Josh Rosner of Graham, Fisher and Co., who appeared with Shahien Nasiripour (Huff-po Business) on Dylan Ratigan Friday. They take...
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British Petroleum's Project Liberty...Off the North Slope in the Beaufort Sea

By we are stardust on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 12:37pm |
Petroleum News reports that BP's new Liberty Project off the North Slope of Alaska is not (was not) covered under the Obama Administration's Deep Water Moratorium. Frank Quimby, spokesperson for the Department of the Interior said:   "The deepwater...
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Grab a Headline; Add a Music Video to Illustrate It: New Rule: Snark or Die! (We're Gettin' Pretty Pissy Around the Café Lately; time for a leetle bit o' fun, yes?)

By we are stardust on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 1:29pm |
I stumbled into this headline this morning: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill (an outtake)   "But in Planet BP -- a BP online, in-house magazine -- a "BP reporter" dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even...
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Israel Investigates Herself with a Little Help from Her Friends

By we are stardust on Sun, 06/20/2010 - 10:18am |
The world wants the IDF's attack on the Mavi Marmara investigated, preferably by an international Panel.  Israel wants to investigate itself.  The world demands that non-Israelis be part of the investigative panel.  Israel yields.  You with me so far?  The...
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Soliciting Opinions on an 'Internet Kill Switch' Bill

By we are stardust on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 1:01pm |
I saw this on Raw Story this morning; googled a bit, and saw many tech sites are adamantly opposed, mainly on the grounds that Government doesn't know much about tech, and also from civil libertarian groups worried about freedom of...
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My Little Town Is Scheduled for a Planetary Paradigm Shift Today; or: a little fun here for you, folks

By we are stardust on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 11:55am |
I find I'm unable to let this day pass without sharing it with you. Notification of this event was in the local paper; their web address was included.    Rhythm and Soul: Participate in the Global Shift as We Ignite...
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I Never Wanted to Put Up a BP Blog.....but this quote is spot on

By we are stardust on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 11:42am |
Like him or not, (I've come to more and more), on Keith Olbermann's program June 7, Howard Fineman said: The US cannot be viewed as an appendage of British Petroleum (as it in the UK, he'd said earlier); that's the thing...

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