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We live in a “time of consequences.” We, as individuals and collectively, are setting the path which will determine the living conditions for millenia to come. This time of consequences is both long term and quite immediate.
This is true for the individual. Do you invest in an energy efficient future life? Will you unplug [...]

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Every Progressive should recognize and incorporate, deep in their soul, the plain fact: Global Warming is the single most serious threat to Progressive ideals, concepts, policies, and aspirations through the 21st century … AND today.
This is not just a let’s wait until tomorrow issue, that should be put in the back of the line [...]

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While too much of the world’s attention turned to the falsehoods from climate deniers (such as Sarah Palin) about ClimateGate (Swifthack), there are people from around the world in Copenhagen seeking to find a path toward a global agreement to mitigate climate change. And, around the world, there are people striving to find and execute [...]

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As laid out in Fast Food Nation, the industrial agriculture/food industry have been able to so pressure the government that school lunch programs represented essentially the lowest of the low of American food quality and safety of supply.  While perhaps that rat-infested restaurant, open because of cash into a crooked inspector’s hands, might be worse, [...]

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Occasionally, it seems worthwhile to resurrect earlier discussions, to try to bring attention to elements that should be part of our national dialogue but which, sadly, seem not ingrained in people’s thinking. No Regrets strategic thinking looks to satisficing — how would this pan out across multiple scenarios. Considering what a No Regrets Strategy would [...]

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In a post discussing FactCheck.org’s take on ClimateGate, Little Green Footballs begins:
FactCheck.org takes an in-depth look at “Climategate,” and notices something: there’s no “there” there.
No conspiracies, no cover-ups, no fakery. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
After extensively quoting FactCheck re ClimateGate/Swifthack, the post concludes:
here’s a pop quiz for LGF readers — who said this?
“It appears from the [...]

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Matt Ortega, Astrotruth.org, caught the American Petroleum Institute photoshopping a stock photo to make the group look a bit more like America. Oops … put a black head on a body but forgot to color in the hands. (Perhaps their graphic ‘artist’ failed color within the lines?)
Rachel Maddow followed up … and provided some more [...]

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Within journalism, there is a real challenge. Are there, truly, two sides to every issue? Should all voices be treated equally? Do journalists have a responsibility to assess statements for truthfulness or is the job simply to be a transcriber and “reporter” of whatever is told to them? How can one be [...]

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Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade [...]

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If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn’t take place, I’m sure we’d have a robust debate about it right now.
This is Al [...]

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