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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

22 June - Blogs I'm Following II

www.nationofchange.org
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline running 

The week in wildlife – in pictures

By The Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry

A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme. The detention business goes beyond just criminal prisoners.

As a Huffington Post investigation pointed out last month, nearly half of all immigrant detainees are now held in privately run detention facilities. Just this week, the New York Times delved into lax oversight at industrial-sized but privately run halfway houses in New Jersey.

 

Two-Thirds of America Doesn't Really Know What Fracking Is

Knight News Challenge

 CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria

- by Tony Cartalucci - 2012-06-22
The West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, while berating the Syrian government for "violating" a UN mandated ceasefire and for "failing to protect" its population.

America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago -- What Happened?

4 Things Obama Has in Common With Dick Cheney

Virginia Attorney General Oversteps His Role, and the Law, In Asserting “Veto” Power in TRAP Regulatory Process

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