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The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.","authors":"Ted Turner","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"CNN","framebuster":false,"id":"cnn","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.4","num_reviews":"1","title":"Why Is the ACLU Helping the Richest Americans Buy Our Elections?","url":"http://www.alternet.org/rights/154184/why_is_the_aclu_helping_the_richest_americans_buy_our_elections/","date":"2012/02/21","id":8574553,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"The American Civil Liberties Union has earned its reputation as the nation\u2019s foremost legal opponent of government censorship and defender of First Amendment political speech. But increasingly, this national organization with 500,000 members and a $70 million annual budget has another legacy\u2014helping the wealthiest Americans and institutions spend unlimited sums on elections.","authors":"Steven Rosenfeld","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Renewables Are a Reality: How We Can Ditch Fossil Fuels Without Any Help From Congress","url":"http://www.alternet.org/environment/154222/renewables_are_a_reality:_how_we_can_ditch_fossil_fuels_without_any_help_from_congress/","date":"2012/02/21","id":8574554,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"In an interview with Yale Environment 360 senior editor Fen Montaigne, Lovins discusses how business and society can pull off this transformation even if the U.S. Congress keeps failing to act, why climate change need not even enter the discussion, and why the oil industry will ultimately forego fossil fuels and jump aboard the green bandwagon. \u201cOne system is dying and others are struggling to be born,\u201d says Lovins. \u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting time.\u201d","authors":"Fen Montaigne","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Super PACs Overtaking Campaign Fundraising","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/super-pacs-republican-gop-campaign-2012_n_1290442.html","date":"2012/02/21","id":8575384,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New \"super\" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support. For two of the GOP front-runners, their su","authors":"Jack Gillum","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"4","title":"Trapped in unemployment","url":"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57380880/a-new-jobs-program-for-people-trapped-in-unemployment/","date":"2012/02/20","id":8573326,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Meet the new underclass -- the four million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year. With every additional week out of work, their chances of finding a job dwindle. It turns out that many employers don't want to hire the currently unemployed. Enter Joe Carbone , who is determined to return the American dream to the long-term unemployed in Connecticut. And he's succeeding, one job at a time. How's Carbone doing it? 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So why are the Bush era tax cuts creating jobs?\"\n\nBoehner responded that the tax cuts \"created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession.\"","authors":"Louis Jacobson","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"PolitiFact","framebuster":false,"id":"politifact","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"3","title":"Billionaire Bigot Bankrolling Mitt Romney","url":"http://www.alternet.org/story/154206/billionaire_bigot_bankrolling_mitt_romney/","date":"2012/02/19","id":8573042,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"In a column sure to rain lawsuit threats down upon him, Glenn Greenwald exposes many of the scandals surrounding Mitt Romney's national finance co-chair, Idahoan Frank VanderSloot. VanderSloot is a billionaire whose deep pockets have funded no small number of Idaho's political figures. As Greenwald details, his business practices have drawn plenty of unwanted attention, as has his involvement in numerous far-right causes, particularly his anti-gay activism, including running a billboard campaign against Idaho Public Television for running a documentary about teachers talking about lesbian and gay issues in age-appropriate ways. His wife, Belinda, donated $100,000 to California's Prop 8 campaign.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"Daily Kos","framebuster":false,"id":"daily_kos","ownership":"ind","type":"blog","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"2","title":"Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter","url":"http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/africa/kenya-tweeting-chief/index.html","date":"2012/02/18","id":8571229,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.","authors":"Faith Karimi","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"CNN","framebuster":false,"id":"cnn","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Op-Ed Contributor: Chinese Labor, Cheap No More","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/opinion/chinese-labor-cheap-no-more.html","date":"2012/02/18","id":8571256,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"The cheap labor that has made China\u2019s factories nearly unbeatable is not so cheap anymore.","authors":"Michelle Loyalka, New York Times","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"1","title":"Will Chevron case take down trade pact investor-state system?","url":"http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5314","date":"2012/02/17","id":8569552,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"After having lost on the merits in Ecuador and U.S. courts, Chevron has turned to an ad hoc \u201cinvestor-state\u201d tribunal of three private lawyers to help the company avoid paying to clean up horrific contamination in the Amazonian rainforest.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"citizen.org","framebuster":false,"id":"citizen_org","ownership":"","type":""}}]