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BREAKING: Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 4:01 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.
Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:08 PM EDT (The Center for Public Integrity)
By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …
House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To Veto
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:51 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …
House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:48 PM EDT (Center for American Progress)
One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …
All-White Jury Acquits Houston PD Caught on Camera Beating Black Teen, Community Protests Ruling VIDEO
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:22 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Police officers were caught by a security camera apparently beating a black teen as he lay prone with his hands behind his head. Chad Holley, then fifteen, was running from police after committing burglary . Despite the video and expert testimony that …
The Republican Party believes that women are trying to defraud the government. - Slate Magazine
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:08 PM EDT (Slate)
The author,Dahlia Lithwick, states that underlying all of the GOP legislation against women is the belief that women are trying to defraud the government and must be stopped. Women lie to get around rules and get what they want.
A Sad Tale of Two Families and a Little Girl
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 12:15 PM EDT (CNN)
A 7-year-old girl is at the center of an international custody dispute. She is a child with two identities, in two countries, with two sets of parents who claim her as their own. Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken. What began as a simple …
Rep. Darrell Issa: Oversight Chairman? In name only. « American Rights at Work's Blog at Work
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:35 AM EDT ()
The U.S. House Oversight Committee plays an important role in holding our government accountable. Unfortunately, the current committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), has been overlooking real issues of concern to America’s taxpayers and workers in favor of witch hunts …
Race Issues Return With Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 9:51 AM EDT (Politico)
The renewed focus on President Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is reviving the issue that neither presidential campaign wants to discuss directly: race. But the differing reactions Thursday from Obama aides and Romney officials to revelations about a planned …
How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 9:46 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
The demented project of endless capitalist expansion, profligate consumption, senseless exploitation and industrial growth is now imploding. Corporate hustlers are as blind to the ramifications of their self-destructive fury as were Custer, the gold speculators and the railroad …
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