Showing posts with label Exxon funded climate change deniers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exxon funded climate change deniers. Show all posts
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Friday, October 30, 2015
RSN: Is the GOP Cracking Up?, Bill McKibben | Imagine if Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change, Anonymous Plans to Reveal Names of Up to 1000 Ku Klux Klan Members
Frank Rich | Is the GOP Cracking Up?
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "There were ten candidates onstage in the CNBC prime-time Republican debate, not to mention the other four candidates who appeared earlier in the kiddie-table debate. Did the GOP winnow the field?"
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Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "There were ten candidates onstage in the CNBC prime-time Republican debate, not to mention the other four candidates who appeared earlier in the kiddie-table debate. Did the GOP winnow the field?"
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Sanders Goes Where Clinton Won't: Calling for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "In a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders told his colleagues, 'The time is now for the U.S. to end capital punishment.'"
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Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "In a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders told his colleagues, 'The time is now for the U.S. to end capital punishment.'"
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In Case Highlighting Revolving Door Between Wall Street and Government, Goldman Sachs to Pay 50 Million for Data Leak
Kaja Whitehouse, USA TODAY
Whitehouse writes: "Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $50 million in a case that has ignited fresh criticisms over the revolving door between Wall Street and the government."
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Kaja Whitehouse, USA TODAY
Whitehouse writes: "Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $50 million in a case that has ignited fresh criticisms over the revolving door between Wall Street and the government."
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Anonymous Plans to Reveal Names of Up to 1000 Ku Klux Klan Members
Jessica Eggert, Mic
Eggert writes: "Anonymous, the infamous group of activist hackers that's hacked the Islamic State group and the CIA, announced Thursday on Twitter that it had accessed an official Ku Klux Klan Twitter account - and plans to reveal the names of up to 1,000 Klan members around the anniversary of the November 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests after the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown."
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Jessica Eggert, Mic
Eggert writes: "Anonymous, the infamous group of activist hackers that's hacked the Islamic State group and the CIA, announced Thursday on Twitter that it had accessed an official Ku Klux Klan Twitter account - and plans to reveal the names of up to 1,000 Klan members around the anniversary of the November 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests after the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown."
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Stephen Colbert Challenges Trump: Donate $1M to Charity
Mark Hensch, The Hill
Hensch writes: "Late-night host Stephen Colbert is demanding that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump open his checkbook for children."
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Mark Hensch, The Hill
Hensch writes: "Late-night host Stephen Colbert is demanding that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump open his checkbook for children."
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US Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage
Matthew Cole, The Intercept
Cole writes: "The secret Pentagon program, which dates back to December 2004, continued well into the Obama presidency."
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Matthew Cole, The Intercept
Cole writes: "The secret Pentagon program, which dates back to December 2004, continued well into the Obama presidency."
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Bill McKibben | Imagine if Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change
Bill McKibben, EcoWatch
McKibben writes: "Exxon could have begun the task of finding alternatives to hydrocarbons, and the world could have done the same thing."
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Bill McKibben, EcoWatch
McKibben writes: "Exxon could have begun the task of finding alternatives to hydrocarbons, and the world could have done the same thing."
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
RSN: Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings, Once Again, Corporate Crimes Result in No Jail
Robert Reich | Once Again, Corporate Crimes Result in No Jail
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "I don't understand how corporations can be held criminally liable yet no single person be held responsible. Federal prosecutors just struck a deal with GM for $900 in 'criminal penalties' for GM's failure to disclose faulty ignition systems that may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 people."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "I don't understand how corporations can be held criminally liable yet no single person be held responsible. Federal prosecutors just struck a deal with GM for $900 in 'criminal penalties' for GM's failure to disclose faulty ignition systems that may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 people."
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House Passes Bills to Defund Planned Parenthood Amid Shutdown Threats
Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK
Gambino writes: "Days away from a politically disastrous government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed two abortion-related bills in a move by party leadership to quell conservative hardliners who have threatened to defund Planned Parenthood."
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Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK
Gambino writes: "Days away from a politically disastrous government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed two abortion-related bills in a move by party leadership to quell conservative hardliners who have threatened to defund Planned Parenthood."
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On-Duty Police Officers Have Shot and Killed More Than 700 People This Year
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year."
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Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, America's incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, America's incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000."
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95% of NFL Players Tested Show Signs of Disease Caused by Head Trauma
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation's largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury."
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Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation's largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury."
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In Further Thaw With Cuba, US Relaxes Rules on Visiting, Money and Business
Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Next week, it will be easier for people, money, and goods to flow between Cuba and the U.S., which announced a new round of relaxed sanctions Friday. The changes also allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba."
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Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Next week, it will be easier for people, money, and goods to flow between Cuba and the U.S., which announced a new round of relaxed sanctions Friday. The changes also allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba."
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Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame."
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Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame."
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Monday, July 13, 2015
MoJo: 4 Big Recycling Lies et al
4 Big Recycling Lies
America's recycling programs are in crisis—and those no-sorting-required "blue bins" are to blame for mucking up our stream. At least that's what a recent story in the Washington Post argued. But when we talked to recycling experts, we learned that the truth is a little more complicated. Here are four big recycling myths—and some suggestions for fixing our broken system, to boot.
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Friday, July 10, 2015
RSN: Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says - But It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years, GOP Leaders Fear Damage to Party's Image as Donald Trump Doubles Down, Death, Lies, and Ghost Schools: A Look at the Amazing Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan
Joseph Stiglitz | The US Must Save Greece
Joseph Stiglitz, TIME
Stiglitz writes: "As the Greek saga continues, many have marveled at Germany's chutzpah. It received, in real terms, one of the largest bailout and debt reduction in history and unconditional aid from the U.S. in the Marshall Plan. And yet it refuses even to discuss debt relief for Greece."
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Joseph Stiglitz, TIME
Stiglitz writes: "As the Greek saga continues, many have marveled at Germany's chutzpah. It received, in real terms, one of the largest bailout and debt reduction in history and unconditional aid from the U.S. in the Marshall Plan. And yet it refuses even to discuss debt relief for Greece."
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Sanders to Jeb Bush: Americans Need Better Wages Not Longer Hours
Tim Devaney, The Hill
Devaney writes: "Bernie Sanders says Americans already work longer hours than employees in most other countries and shouldn't be forced to 'work even longer hours than they currently do'"
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Tim Devaney, The Hill
Devaney writes: "Bernie Sanders says Americans already work longer hours than employees in most other countries and shouldn't be forced to 'work even longer hours than they currently do'"
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GOP Leaders Fear Damage to Party's Image as Donald Trump Doubles Down
Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency."
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Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency."
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Warren, McCain Introduce Bill to Bring Back
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Cirilli writes: "Elizabeth Warren and John McCain are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices."
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Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Cirilli writes: "Elizabeth Warren and John McCain are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices."
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All the Due Process Money Can Buy
Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America
Turck writes: "On June 8, California's Judicial Council, which governs the state's court system, ordered judges to stop requiring people to pay bail in order to contest minor traffic tickets."
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Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America
Turck writes: "On June 8, California's Judicial Council, which governs the state's court system, ordered judges to stop requiring people to pay bail in order to contest minor traffic tickets."
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Death, Lies, and Ghost Schools: A Look at the Amazing Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan
Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News
Khan writes: "The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student."
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Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News
Khan writes: "The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student."
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Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says - But It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg writes: ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change - seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm's own scientists. Despite this the firm spent $30 million over the next 27 years to promote climate denial."
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Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg writes: ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change - seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm's own scientists. Despite this the firm spent $30 million over the next 27 years to promote climate denial."
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