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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late","url":"http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/22/opinion/turner-keystone-pipeline/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn","date":"2012/02/22","id":8577222,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. 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":"As Calls For Intervention in Syria Grow, Vijay Prashad Urges Re-Evaluation of NATO Attack on Libya","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/21/as_calls_for_intervention_in_syria","date":"2012/02/21","id":8576429,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"as Libya celebrates a new era free of the Gaddafi regime, there are growing concerns the country\u2019s lingering divisions will tear it apart. Libya remains deeply splintered by regions and factions. More than 500 militias exist throughout the country, leading to ongoing human rights abuses that resemble those under the Gaddafi regime.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Spying On Campus: New York Police Caught Monitoring Muslim Student Groups Throughout Northeast","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/21/spying_on_campus_new_york_police","date":"2012/02/21","id":8576428,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"the New York City Police Department monitored Muslim college students at schools throughout the Northeast, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. In one case, the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip in upstate New York, where he recorded students\u2019 names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","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? Scott Pelley reports.","authors":"Scott Pelley","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"CBS News","framebuster":false,"id":"cbs_news","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"2.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"Study: Whites More Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks","url":"http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/","date":"2012/02/20","id":8574552,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.","authors":"Maia Szalavitz","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"Time","framebuster":false,"id":"time","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","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":"3.5","num_reviews":"2","title":"Cardinals' ascension clouded by intrigue","url":"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57380807/cardinals-ascension-clouded-by-intrigue/","date":"2012/02/18","id":8571230,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Pope Benedict XVI elevated 22 men to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican Saturday.\nBut the joyous occasion was overshadowed by difficult days for the church.","authors":"Allen Pizzey","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"CBS News","framebuster":false,"id":"cbs_news","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","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}}]