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Oscar-Nominated 'Gasland' Director Calls Latest Attack on His Film 'Outlandish' and Tells Why the Industry Is Getting Desperate | | AlterNet

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Brad Jacobson - Feb. 25 (News Report) - When the gas industry sent an open letter this month to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences demanding it revoke its best documentary nomination for the gas-drilling exposé Gasland, many seemed surprised by this brazen missive. Gasland director Josh Fox wasn't one of those people. "What this points to is the culture of that industry, which is bullying, which is aggressive, which is outlandish in their tactics, which will stop at nothing," Fox told AlterNet during a nearly hour-long interview.

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Greenpeace blimp buzzes Koch brothers’ strategy meeting

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Jan. 31 (Opinion) - Attendees of the billionaire Koch brothers' strategy session in Rancho Mirage, California, this weekend were met with an unusual sight: A blimp overhead declaring "Koch brothers -- dirty money." The blimp was the work of Greenpeace, the environmentalist group that last year brought attention to the prominent role that Charles and David Koch, owners of [...]

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Senate Democrats ‘likely’ to pass new 9/11 health bill

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Eric W. Dolan - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - Legislation to improve health care services to rescue workers who became ill as a result of breathing dangerous fumes and dust at the World Trade Center may receive a second chance after being blocked by Senate Republicans last week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid intends to bring up a scaled-down version of the 9/11 first responders health bill for another vote during the lame-duck session. The bill is expected after the Senate votes on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on Tuesday. Forty-one of the 42 Republican Senators voted against considering the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 last week, with one Republican, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kentucky, abstaining. At the last minute, Democrat Sen. Reid also voted against the bill in a parliamentary move which allowed him to bring the legislation up for a second vote.

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Extended exposure to Fox News makes voters stupid, university study finds

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - The troublesome record of spin by conservative television station Fox News has long been a cause for concern to many Americans, who frequently allege that the nation's most viewed "news" network has the effect of dumbing down voters. Turns out, they were right. A University of Maryland study (PDF) published earlier this month found that [...]

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‘Bank Run 2010′ aims to end ‘criminal, corrupt’ financial system

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - In what may be the most subversive reaction yet to global outrage over the financial crisis, a European soccer star has inspired an international "bank run" protest aiming to collapse the global financial system. The organizers of "Bank Run 2010" have chosen December 7 as the day when protesters are meant to withdraw their money [...]

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Woman gets death threats after being targeted by Glenn Beck

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - An Illinois woman who volunteered to moderate a congressional debate received numerous threats of violence and death threats after being targeted personally by Fox News personality Glenn Beck, according to a report a colleague filed last week with the FBI. League of Women Voters Illinois Executive Director Jan Czarnik filed a report saying she and [...]

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Fox News editorial: WikiLeaks employees should be declared ‘enemy combatants’

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - Leading the attack on whistleblower web site WikiLeaks, Fox News editorialist and former Bush-era US State Department official Christian Whiton said on Monday that the US should classify the proprietors of WikiLeaks as "enemy combatants," opening up the possibility of "non-judicial actions" against them.

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Journalist: Women raped at Abu Ghraib were later ‘honor killed’

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Sep. 11 (News Report) - "In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than the men," Lima Nabil told The Independent. "One woman said she witnessed five girls being raped. Most of the women in the prison were raped – some of them left prison pregnant. Families killed some of these women – because of the shame."

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Offshoring math? School ‘outsources teaching to India’

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - Offshoring math? School ‘outsources teaching to India’

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Economic forecaster: 'Greatest Depression' coming

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - The US economic recovery in recent quarters is little more than a "cover-up" and the world is headed for a "Greatest Depression," complete with social unrest and class warfare, says a renowned economic forecaster.

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Kucinich, Ron Paul: Get US troops out of Pakistan

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Agence France-Presse - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - Two US lawmakers -- a Republican and a Democrat -- proposed a bill this week demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against militants. "We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval," Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich [...]

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BP CEO ordering media to get away from oil-coated beach

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - May. 25 (News) - Walking along a Louisiana beach yesterday, the chief operating officer of British Petroleum was caught on tape ordering subordinates multiple times to "get 'em out of here," apparently referencing media personnel who were swarming the scene prior to a press conference.

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Latina professor jeered, threatened for speaking against immigration laws

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - May. 25 (News Report) - Professor Sandra Soto, welcome to civil rights notoriety. Last week, Arizona University's professor of Latina studies took the stage to address 2010 graduates of the school's Social and Behavioral Sciences program. Naturally, her words were timely and touched upon the state's recently passed immigration laws that allow police to question and detain anyone who they suspect [...]

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UN judge calls for prosecution of Pope Benedict

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned human rights lawyer and United Nations jurist, wants to see Pope Benedict put on trial for allegedly protecting predator priests. In a Guardian UK piece making its rounds this week in Catholic circles, Robertson demanded the pope be "put in the dock" so that the church might "feel the full weight [...]

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CIA’s top spy: Intelligence hasn’t ’suffered at all’ from waterboarding ban

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Andrew McLemore - Apr. 04 (News Report) - President Obama's ban on waterboarding hasn't hampered US intelligence efforts "at all," one of the CIA's top officials said to an audience of students last week.

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Turley criticizes Justice’s wife for ‘injudicious’ Tea Party activism

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - Mar. 16 (News) - Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley on Monday assailed the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas for her growing role in Tea Party political activism. "It's, in a word, injudicious," Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, said on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. "The fact that this is news is an example of the self-restraint [...]

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Kucinich willing to be the vote that kills health reform

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By David Edwards, Sahil Kapur - Mar. 09 (News Report) - Labels it a 'bailout' for the insurance industry Facing razor-thin margins in the House, Democratic leaders are hoping to convert the sole liberal who opposes their health care bill, but it seems they have their work cut out because he isn't budging. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Monday defended his opposition to the proposal in an appearance [...]

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Afghanistan: Media ban on attack coverage is ‘to protect journalists’

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Raw Story - Mar. 03 (News Report) - The government of Afghanistan sent out mixed messages on Tuesday about its plans to restrict media coverage of insurgent attacks, at once denying that it was banning live coverage of attacks while defending the plans as being "to protect journalists."

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US teen pregnancy rate up for first time since 1990: study

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - Jan. 28 (News Report) - The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools.

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Ron Paul suggests ‘agenda’ to expand terror war, attack American liberty

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - How does a massive, costly security apparatus fail to stop a known terrorism threat from boarding an airplane and wrecking devastation? It happened on Sept. 11, 2001, and again on Dec. 25, 2009. "There must be an agenda," suggested Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) in a recent video message to supporters. "It seems ironic that there is so much excitement about this and now talk about attacking Yemen," he said, noting recent bombing raids by Saudi forces, carried out with the explicit blessing of the United States.

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Kucinich: 'Class War Is Over, Working People Lost' |

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Sahil Kapur - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - Kucinich, who voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (also known as the Wall Street bailout), lamented it as a catalyzing force for the rising inequality of income in the United States. "The wealth of this nation is being accelerated upward," Kucinich said. "That’s one of the problems that I had with the bailout."

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Blue Cross in hot water over North Carolina letter campaign

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is under investigation for possible violations of the law in a letter and robo-call campaign it launched to oppose health care reform. As Raw Story reported last month, the insurer -- the largest in the North Carolina market -- sent out letters to its customers informing them of an [...]

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Liberals cry ‘unfair’ after Fox orders unbalanced YouTube purge

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Daniel Tencer - Nov. 13 (News) - The channel provided clips from all news networks, but often focused on Fox's controversial commentators.

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Fleischer: Birthers just like ‘loony’ liberals who thought Gore won

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Diana Sweet - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - On CNN's Larry King Live Show Tuesday evening, as King and Democratic strategist James Carville try in vain to get Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann to answer a question about the 'birthers,' former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer chimes in claiming hypocrisy by the left because there were those who questioned the legitimacy of the [...]

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Government admits filming torture of Gitmo inmate, alleged 9/11 plotter

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Stephen C. Webster - Oct. 06 (Opinion) -

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