TODAY:
Brazil's new oil spill; Supercommittee FAIL, Big Oil WIN; Extreme weather is New Normal; Bye-bye oysters; PLUS: Surprise! Fox deceives on climate...
Haunting Twilight Zone-like video of Linda Katehi walking through silent student protest in wake of Friday pepper spray torture...
UPDATE: 2 UC Davis cops place on 'Administrative Leave'...
Demonstrator at Occupy Portland receives face full of pepper spray during march on 2-month 'anniversary' of OWS. Just the latest appalling display by alarmingly militarized cops around the nation...
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'... PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
And this comes from the New York Times, of all places, which Climate Progress' Joe Romm recently slammed for having "Abandon[ed] the Story of the Century and Join[ed] the Energy and Climate Ignorati," suggesting that "it is now worth seriously contemplating canceling your subscriptions to the one-time paper of record."
Republicans made huge gains in the 2010 elections, promising to improve the economy. Isn’t it funny that the economy is now going back down? What isn’t funny is that 33 states — all with Republican controlled legislatures — have passed laws that make it more difficult to vote.
How can you tell that these laws are politically motivated? Well, in Texas, you can use a concealed handgun permit to identify yourself to vote, but you can’t use a student ID. And in Florida, they also restricted efforts by the League of Women Voters to register new voters. Proponents say the new laws are necessary to prevent voter fraud, but election law experts say that there is little evidence of voter fraud in US elections.
Tonight: Tom Tomorrow, Egypt & the U.S. Chamber Attacks!...
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POST-SHOW UPDATE:Wow. Learned during the show that I (and my family) was personally targeted by the U.S. Chamber. That made an already wild show, even more insane. The commercial-free audio archives now follow below... (You can read the chat room archives below as well!)...
If American politics and political discourse is going to devolve into little more than a bad Disney cartoon --- and it has, as this election season demonstrates in spades --- why not just cut out the middle man and cut straight to the cartoon chase?
Our thanks to Stephen C. Webster at RAW STORY for drawing our attention to the latest escalation in the Glen Beck Toon Wars (so far, a one-sided war, in truth).
In response, Fox' finest fantasist has seemingly become convinced the whole thing is a Big Government conspiracy out to get him. "Some of these remix videos, I believe, get federal funding," declared Beck on his radio show last week. "We're looking into the funding of this gentleman, and the incredible propaganda against me," he said. "We'll find out if it's been federally funded, ya know, as part of the stimulus package."
Well, apparently Mickey Mouse isn't taking Beck's latest goofy conspiracy theory lying down, as YouTube poster "ikat381" helped us to learn over the weekend...
Keep it comin', Glenn! We're lovin' these toons! So, we'd be outraged if we were you!
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