"Last week, President Obama visited a plant in Iowa that builds wind turbine blades to promote his campaign for green jobs and renewable energy — and to hammer the Republicans for not helping the cause. It was the right venue. Iowa is a leader in wind power, which provides about 20 percent of the state’s total electricity, as well as the thousands of jobs that go with it"
May 27, 2012
May 13, 2012
Mitt Romney, from his Cranbrook senior yearbook: “Give a guy enough rope and he’ll hang himself.”
May 12, 2012
"China’s central bank announced late Saturday that it would loosen monetary policy in a clear effort to stimulate the economy after the release on Thursday and Friday of a batch of economic indicators for April that were considerably weaker than most economists had expected."
— After Disappointing Figures, China Will Try to Stimulate Economy - NYTimes.com
May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a grim report on Thursday with a pretty simple message: We’re eating our seed corn. Over the past two decades, the number of California high school students completing the state’s most rigorous curriculum—known as the “a-g requirements”—has risen by a third, and the number of high school grads admitted to the state’s CSU and flagship UC systems has risen by a similar amount. That should be good news in a world that increasingly depends on educated workers. But there’s a problem: It hasn’t translated into more students going to college. (via California Committing Educational Suicide | Mother Jones)
May 12, 2012
There’s a new low in the highly charged Trayvon Martin case. According to a report from Florida TV news station WKMG, an unidentified entrepreneur aimed to profit by selling paper gun targets depicting the unarmed teenager slain in February. The targets, which were advertised for sale online until Friday, feature a hoodie with crosshairs over the chest—the place where George Zimmerman shot Martin at point-blank range. While there’s plain black in lieu of Martin’s face, tucked into the hoodie’s arm are a bag of Skittles and can of iced tea like the kind Martin was carrying on that fateful night. (via Selling Trayvon Martin for Target Practice | Mother Jones)
May 12, 2012
Industry giants say their case is misguided. But that isn’t stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands. (via An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts - Katherine Ellison - National - The Atlantic)
May 12, 2012
"An unsettling new investigation by the Sacramento Bee found that the federal Wildlife Services agency, an obscure bureau within the USDA tasked with “resolving wildlife conflicts,” has in the last decade accidentally killed over 50,000 animals that posed no threat to people or the environment (in addition to nearly a million coyotes killed intentionally). The execution roster would make John Muir roll over in his grave: wolverines, river otters, migratory shorebirds, bald and golden eagles, and more than a thousand dogs (averaging eight a month!), including family pets."
May 12, 2012
"A secretive right-wing group, Veterans For A Strong America, is attempting to do to President Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to Sen. John Kerry in 2004. And they aren’t shy about it. The group’s leader and sole employee, Joel Arends, told Mother Jones, “Yes, it’s the swift boating of the president."
May 12, 2012
This May Day brought the explosive global resurgence of Occupy, one of the most significant social movement in decades. In New York City, the heart of global capitalism and center of the movement, the New York Civil Liberties Union estimated that 30,000 demonstrators took part in a massive rally and march down Broadway, led by a score of city taxicabs. As has become alarmingly common for a country that constantly proclaims its zealous devotion to democracy, the day ended with brutal police violence and arrests. (via The Corporate Media’s Attempt to Kill the Occupy Movement)
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