My On Trek To Washington trip!
I will be going to Washington next week I hope to keep you posted on my voyage. You may recall the title of this post it comes from the famous…
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Interior Dept Okays Thousands Of New Unconventional Gas Wells In Utah
kensalazar.jpg Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that his department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are fast-tracking unconventional gas drilling permits in Utah&...
Tom Ridge Claimed "I’m Not a Lobbyist" on Colbert Report, But The Facts Prove Otherwise
Colbert-Tom-Ridge.jpg Tom Ridge, on the Thursday, June 9 edition of the Colbert Report, claimed he is "not a lobbyist." A quick glance at his resume shows that nothing could be…
EPA Again Faults State Department Keystone XL Assessment as "Insufficient"
keystone_img_2801.jpg The controversial Keystone XL project proposed by Canadian dirty oil giant TransCanada was dealt a potentially devastating blow on its quest for federal approval after ...
Will Republicans Attack Climate Preparedness Even at the Cost of National Security?
360px-US_Department_of_Homeland_Security_Seal.svg_.png Recently, House Republicans—constantly trying to frustrate all manner of climate change measures by the administration—took a cl...
First Real Debate!
The race for Obama's opponent is now almost at the beginning. It's not quite there to say many candidates are still not fully in. Candidate's like Bachman, Palin and Giuliani…
Arkansas Families Launch Lawsuits Against Southwestern For Polluting Their Water; New Brunswick Is Open For Drilling
Oilwell (WinCE).jpg Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. is facing more lawsuits because of destructive hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) practices. Southwestern is already accused of conta...
Breaking: TransCanada Keystone I Pipeline Shut Down Indefinitely Due to Safety Concerns
tar-sands-pipeline-state-dept-sued.jpg Following a string of oil spills, TransCanada's Keystone I tar sands oil pipeline has been indefinitely shut down, and banned from restarting operations. To...
Apache Corp Pulls Out Of New Brunswick Gas Fracking Project
Fisk_Hallow_Fracking1-300x199.jpg Halifax’s Corridor Resources Ltd. has announced that Apache Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Houston’s Apache Corporation, is giving up on unconventional...
Does Capitalism Save Lives?
I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also noted that, in…
Illinois Has a Lot More to Go
As of today homosexual couples will now have some of the rights as a heterosexual couple does, but it is no were near enough. It may be a step in…
The Ron Paul Risk?
Ron Paul was a Libertarian for a long time now even ran for president as a Libertarian. Ron Paul surprised many skeptics last election getting a lot of money in…
President Giuliani!
The latest poll in the republican party is that the leader of the pact is Rudy Giuliani (the guy who isn't running just yet). Romney is second and he is…
Huckabee Won’t Run.
One of the most like able and most suggestion as the solution to beat Obama in 2012 was Huckabee, But this Saturday Huckabee said that he wouldn't run. Now the…
The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how…
The Treasury Transfer Effect – You Read It Here First
Munir Sheikh, former head of Statistics Canada and of tax policy at Finance Canada, has an op-ed in today’s Globe: “A Canada-U.S. tax gap means a Canada-U.S. tax transfer.” As…
China: Fear of its Rise is Fear of Ourselves
A recent Economist article, The dangers of a rising China, leads a 14 page report loosely discussing the dangers posed to the world by China’s eclipsing of the USA’s international…
Switzerland: Swiss Franc -ly Under Attack
Separate reports this week in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) are highlighting the difficult choices Switzerland, and by extension other nations, are facing in the continued onslaught of…