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Virtually Speaking tonight
Tonight Dec 29, Thursday Double Header 5pm/8pm – Virtually Speaking A to Z. Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman on competing economic theories and economic recovery. 6pm/9pm – Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd. Jay hosts Eve Gittelson. Reviewing 2011 in health care policy. Listen Live and Later. Bookmark It
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Bipartisan Wet Dream
Once again
What Digby said. Bookmark It
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Media The Shadow Knows Worshipping Mammon
New reason to ‘unlike’ Facebook
Any corporation running a venue that prompts you to “like” something is looking to violate your privacy, probably in order to make money but possibly for more sinister reasons. Only the truly naive will be shocked by Facebook’s latest transgression: Bookmark It
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Blind Justice Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Disastrous
BP
What do you suppose are the odds of substantial charges being brought? And this pisses me off, anyway, because you know that these guys are given the unreasonable standards (low budget, short deadline) and told “do what needs to be done.” Of course, the people at the top never pay: U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP PLC employees stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, which killed 11 workers and caused the worst [...]
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My So-Called Life
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
I’m eating a chicken breast for lunch. It tastes like heaven. Welcome back, real food. Bookmark It
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Corporate Statism Environmental
GMO
Oops! (AP) One of the nation’s most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected. The U.S. food supply is not in any immediate danger because the problem remains isolated. But scientists fear potentially risky farming practices could be blunting the hybrid’s sophisticated weaponry. When it was introduced in 2003, so-called Bt corn seemed [...]
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#OccupyWallStreet Class War Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Media Police State
O’Donnell: Fire ‘outlaw’ cops
It’s about time somebody on TV other than Keith Olbermann expressed outrage about the NYPD’s good-squad tactics regarding Occupy Wall Street members and reporters: On the “Rewrite” segment of his show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said the only way for the New York Police Department to remain respectable was for the department to terminate officers who prevent reporters from covering protests. NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly had ordered officers to avoid interfering with media access. But in December police [...]
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‘Any Major Dude Will Tell You’
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