The Dimock Fracking Study: Result Summaries - Hazardous

Thursday 22 March 2012

About That Dimock Fracking Study: Result Summaries Show Methane and Hazardous Chemicals
Christine Shearer, Truthout: "Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 issued a statement last week that its preliminary tests of water samples near drilling and fracking sites in the Pennsylvania town of Dimock showed no health concerns, the group Water Defense and 'Gasland' director Josh Fox went to Dimock to look at the EPA summaries themselves, which they say do report high levels of explosive methane, heavy metals and hazardous chemicals."
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The Invisible Poverty of "The Other America" of the 1960s Is Far More Visible Today
Peter Dreier, Truthout: "Fifty years ago (in March 1962) Michael Harrington wrote a book, 'The Other America: Poverty in the United States' - a haunting tour of deprivation in an affluent society - that inspired Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to wage a war on poverty. This slim, 186-page volume became a best-seller and became required reading for social scientists, elected officials, college students, members of study groups sponsored by churches and synagogues, reporters and intellectuals, the new wave of community organizers and the student activists who traveled to the South to join the civil rights crusade."
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ALEC Ratified NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin's Killer
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: "A Florida law that may protect the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February is the template for an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 'model bill' that has been pushed in other states. The bill was brought to ALEC by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and fits into a pattern of ALEC bills that disproportionately impact communities of color."
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Documents Detail Widespread Confusion on DHS Involvement in Surveillance, Crackdown on Occupy
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Documents obtained by Truthout through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show a lack of clarity about DHS's role in the surveillance and eviction of Occupy movements - within the agency itself.... The question of whether the Occupy movements are considered security threats and can therefore be surveilled by the agency is detailed in internal memos that show the developing strategy toward the Occupy movement, which DHS employees affirm is 'constitutionally protected activity.'"
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Lockheed: The Ultimate Pay-to-Play Contractor
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "Loren Thompson is one of those people in Washington, DC, circles that wears several hats.... He is an unabashed promoter of Pentagon contractors and wrote a disturbing article this week for AOL Defense talking about how Lockheed has not only survived the most recent defense cuts, but actually has set itself up to be the most successful defense contractor despite the cuts."
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Exposed: Inside the NSA's Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "A new expose in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed 'Stellar Wind.' We speak with investigative reporter James Bamford, who says the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas."
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Truthout Talks With Thom Hartmann About His Legacy as an Author
Mark Karlin Interviews Thom Hartmann, Truthout: "Thom Hartmann: I've been writing since I was 12 years old. When I left my parents' home when I was 16, I'd wallpapered my bedroom with 56 rejection slips, mostly for bad poetry, and had published one short story in a men's magazine. I love to write, and think I've gotten reasonably good at it. Arthur C. Clarke famously said, 'Your first million words are practice.' That would be about ten novels, and I have seven or eight unpublished novels and several unpublished nonfiction books I wrote decades ago, as I was learning how to write."
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Bradley Manning Prosecution Incurably Infected by Government Misconduct
Kevin Zeese, Bradley Manning Support Network: "Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that showed widespread unethical and illegal behavior by the Department of Defense and State Department. Manning has suffered the fate the Queen put on Alice when she was in Wonderland, 'Sentence first - verdict afterwards.' By the time his court martial is actually held he will have been incarcerated for more than two years, one of those years was spent in solitary confinement. But, that is only one of many obvious injustices Manning is being subjected to."
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The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn't Set Gas Prices
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress: "The public understands Obama isn't to blame for high gasoline prices, as recent polls make clear. Even the Wall Street Journal and Cato Institute agree: 'It's not Obama's fault that crude oil prices have increased.' But as the NY Times pointed out Sunday, facts don't stop the GOP."
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Calls Grow for Leader of Komen to Step Down
Natasha Singer, The New York Times News Service: "Calls for the resignation of Nancy G. Brinker, the founder and chief executive of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the breast cancer charity, grew Wednesday amid news that a second high-profile executive was leaving the group. On Tuesday, Dr. Dara P. Richardson-Heron, the chief executive of Komen's Greater New York City affiliate, said she had made a 'personal decision' to resign effective April 27."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Announces Fast-Track Approval of Keystone Pipeline Segment, and More
In today's On the News segment: Only five banks control more than half of all the industry's assets, President Obama announced the fast-track approval of the southern leg for the existing Keystone pipeline today in Oklahoma, Democrats try to curb influence of SuperPACs, and more.
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Paul Krugman | Spain's Economy, Front and Center
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I've always viewed Spain, not Greece, as the quintessential euro crisis country. With Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government balking - rightly - at further austerity, the focus is now where it arguably should have been all along. And with Spain now front and center, the essential wrongness of the whole European policy focus becomes totally apparent. Spain did not get into this crisis by being fiscally irresponsible; see the little comparison on the chart on this page."
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After Bales' Arrest, Military Tried to Delete Him From Web
David Goldstein and Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers: "Besides waiting nearly a week before identifying the Army staff sergeant who's accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers, the US military scrubbed its websites of references to his combat service. Gone were photographs of the suspect, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, as well as a recounting in his base's newspaper of a 2007 battle in Iraq involving his unit that quoted him extensively. But not really."
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If Zimmerman Were Black and Trayvon Martin a White Teenage Athlete, Zimmerman's Ass Would Be in Jail
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Let's face the racial politics simmering in the Trayvon Martin murder head-on: if Zimmerman were black and Martin a local white high school teenage athlete, then Zimmerman would be in jail facing a homicide rap, regardless of Florida's license to kill."
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