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Fox News Goes After Media Matters' Tax-Exempt Status
The network has run more than 30 segments calling for Media Matters to be stripped of its non-profit tax status.
This level of coordinated activism by the network bolsters Media Matters' contention that Fox is a political organization. Ironically, Fox's complaint against Media Matters is the latter's claim that Fox is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party:One of Fox's top anchors, Chris Wallace, has said repeatedly that his network will profit from the Republican presidential primaries because the network "owns" so many of the leading candidates.
6/20 The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network
With its bare-bones newsgathering operation – Fox News has one-third the staff and 30 fewer bureaus than CNN – Ailes generates profit margins above 50 percent. Nearly half comes from advertising, and the rest is dues from cable companies. Fox News now reaches 100 million households, attracting more viewers than all other cable-news outlets combined, and Ailes aims for his network to “throw off a billion in profits.”
Fear is precisely what Ailes is selling: His network has relentlessly hyped phantom menaces like the planned “terror mosque” near Ground Zero, inspiring Florida pastor Terry Jones to torch the Koran. Privately, Murdoch is as impressed by Ailes’ business savvy as he is dismissive of his extremist politics. "You know Roger is crazy," Murdoch recently told a colleague, shaking his head in disbelief. "He really believes that stuff."
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Bill Clinton Compares Voter ID Laws to Jim Crow: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,” the former president said in a speech to youth activists about GOP efforts to limit same-day voter registration and block some convicted felons from voting.
What The Military Focused On Instead Of Sex Crimes
From Jezebel:
Sexual assault is infamously one of the most under-reported crimes in America-only 40 percent of victims come forward to police. But in the military, where service-members must often work, socialize and live together, the problem is even more pronounced: The Department of Defense believes that only an anemic 13 percent of victims report assaults. With an estimated 19,000 assaults taking place each year, that's bad, bad news.
Read more here.
Back in 2006, Congress directed the Department of Defense Inspector General (IG) to develop a plan to eliminate military sexual assault and provide oversight of investigations.So did they do it? Nah. According to a scathing government report released last week, the IG office failed to perform those responsibilities, "primarily because it believes it has other, higher priorities."
Here's a neat visualization of the many, many judgements we pass off onto each other, courtesy of Christoph Neimann for the New York Times Magazine. I'll admit to being guilty of a few of the Manhattan-centric neighborhood stereotypes. Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, I guess.
[NYT Via Buzzfeed]EPA Unveils New Standards For Coal-Fired Power Plants
The new regulations will affect power plants in 28 states and are scheduled to go into effect in 2012. They will cut millions of tons of soot and smog emissions from power plants at a cost of less than $1 billion per year to utility companies.E.P.A. administrator Lisa Jackson said the new regulations, known as the Cross State Air Pollution Rule, will improve air quality for 240 million Americans, preventing a projected 30 thousand premature deaths and up to 15 thousand nonfatal heart attacks, as well as hundreds of thousands of cases of asthma and other respiratory ailments.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Environmental impacts of coal power:air pollution
Wastes Generated
Fuel Supply
Water Supply
Coal vs. Wind
( But they flog alarmism too - 'predicting the future' on the basis of a phenomenon known to operate independently of human intervention and in effect selling 'regulation' and 'carbon credits' via prophecy...which distracts attention from other problems )
What is Global Warming?
When CO2 and other heat-trapping emissions are released into the air, they act like a blanket, holding heat in our atmosphere and warming the planet. Overloading our atmosphere with carbon has far-reaching effects for people everywhere. Learn more
- Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution
Millions of Americans suffer from the harmful effects of ground-level ozone pollution, which exacerbates lung diseases such as asthma and can cause breathing difficulties even in healthy individuals. This finds that unchecked global warming could increase ground-level ozone, threatening public health and the economy.
- Nuclear Reactor Crisis in Japan
UCS is following events in Japan and will provide information and analysis on significant developments. We have shifted our focus to using the lessons from the Fukushima crisis to improve nuclear power safety at existing and future reactors.
- Attack on the Clean Air Act
Given the Senate’s inaction on a comprehensive climate and energy bill in 2010, we are now counting on the EPA to carry out its responsibility under the Clean Air Act to reduce the emissions that cause climate change. However, this hallmark legislation is currently under attack in Congress.
At ground level, ozone is an air pollutant that damages human health, vegetation, many common materials, and is a key ingredient of smog.
How Does Ground Level Ozone Form? (back to top)
Ozone has the same chemical structure (O3) whether it occurs miles above the earth or at ground level. At ground level, "bad" ozone is formed when certain compounds react in the presence of direct sunlight.
VOCs + NOx + Sunlight = Ozone
VOCs, (volatile organic compounds) are widely used as ingredients in household products including; paints, varnishes, wax, fuels, cleaning, disinfecting, cosmetic, degreasing, and hobby products. Some VOCs are safe to handle and have little known health effects, while other VOCs are highly toxic. In addition to all of the man made sources of VOCs, natural sources of VOCs exist. For example, trees naturally release small amounts of VOCs.
NOx, (nitrogen oxide gases) is the generic term for a group of highly reactive gases, all of which contain nitrogen and oxygen in varying amounts. Many of the nitrogen oxides are colorless and odorless. The primary sources of NOx are motor vehicles, electric utilities, and other industrial, commercial, and residential sources that burn fuels.
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Ozone’s impact is all about location. High in the stratosphere, ozone shields us from the sun’s harmful UV rays. But beneath that, at the top of the troposphere, it acts as a greenhouse gas and contributes to global warming. In the middle of the troposphere, it plays a key role in a chemical process that cleans the air of certain pollutants. But at the bottom of the troposphere, where we live and breathe, it contributes to smog and is toxic to plants and animals. TES measurements allow scientists to track the abundance, creation, destruction, and movement of this critical chemical at various altitudes throughout the atmosphere.
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NASA Study Tracks Global Sources, Transport of Air Pollution
A NASA and university study of ozone and carbon monoxide pollution ( monoxide - the poison - not dioxide, the plant food which is part of a natural cycle known to vary... )
( Meanwhile, polluting industry has its problems )
Gerald Celente : China kept the Ponzi scheme going too
...let's go back to 2008 when the panic of 08 hit , people are forgetting that China played the same game that the United Stats did that the European central banks did , they pumped trillions of Yuans into the economy to keep it afloat they created a bubble , no one likes to lose so they kept the Ponzi scheme going ...history is already being re-engineered , you know what they call what happened in the middle east and north Africa they call it pro democracy movement , this has nothing to do with democracy it has to do with a lot of people who cannot make enough money to put a roof over their heads clothes on their back and food on their mouth particularly as food prices are hitting all time highs we are seeing revolts happening everywhere ....
How to Green the Planet
a world where undersea volcanoes spew millions of barrels of oil, coal fires choke the skies and 5,000-degree puddles of molten uranium poison the land, air and water.
Google+ an interesting response to Facebook, but will it succeed?
Google+ seems aimed at people who are more interested in sharing things with people or groups with similar interests rather than simply amassing the biggest number of online “friends.” Its seamless integration with other Google services you may use, from search to online documents, makes it easier to share things online.I found privacy settings much easier to manage on Google+ than on Facebook.
Unlike Facebook, Google+ also lets you edit posts after you post them and decide for each post whether to allow comments, a feature I liked.
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