'Nuclear Pork' Cut Out of Final Recovery and Reinvestment Package

Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:13 PM EST (Environmental News Service)

NO NUKES NO COAL NO KIDDING

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How Did $50B High-Risk, Job-Killing Nuclear Loans Get in the Stimulus?

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:29 PM EST (AlterNet.org)

Adding a twist on double taxation, nuclear energy industry slides to new lows on doublespeak, expecting people to be taxpayers, rate payers and stupid.

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The Future of Nuclear Power

Seeded on Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:37 PM EST (Sciam)

This report, although written well, attempts to confuse technology with commonsense. I especially enjoy the contradiction in the report "How long will the world's uranium supply last." The scientist states that it takes 10 metric tons of "natural" uranium to make one ton of LEU.

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Department Of Energy Faces EPA Fines For Lawrence Livermore Lab Violations

Seeded on Thu Jan 8, 2009 10:07 AM EST (KTVU)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has notified the U.S. Department of Energy that it could face escalating fines if it doesn't immediately resume cleanup of toxic waste at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Sundance continues drinking-water ban

Seeded on Thu Jan 8, 2009 8:57 AM EST (Casper Star Tribune)

Drilling contaminates drinking water supplies, even though state regulations are in place. Now that their water supplies is poisoned, where will they find a suitable replacement?

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6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us

Seeded on Wed Jan 7, 2009 2:58 PM EST (AlterNet.org)

This Alternet article is short but is causing ruckus throughout the Internet.

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The Story of Stuff: Your Relationship to Environmental Destruction

Seeded on Sat Jan 3, 2009 4:01 PM EST (Annie Leonard)
Seeded by Brandon Hill (Clipped by igmuska)

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

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Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw

Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:40 PM EST
By Associated Press (Clipped by igmuska)

Microsoft Corp. is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers.

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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

Seeded on Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:56 PM EST (projects.flowingdata.com)

This is a very fascinating graphic illustrating the viral growth of Walmart through time.

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Forecasters: tough road ahead for the economy

Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:01 AM EST
By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writers (Clipped by igmuska)

The country is sinking deeper into the economic doldrums, and it's likely to stay there for a while.

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Time for a U.S.-Iranian 'Grand Bargain'

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:22 PM EDT (New America)

Escalating the Middle East War to include Iran is like testing football helmets by laying your helmeted head on the tracks of an on-coming train. We need peace for our future. Besides if Iran was such as bad place, why don't we see massive refugee migrations to our county? The  …

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Energy versus Water: Solving Both Crises Together: Scientific American

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:04 PM EDT (Sciam)

Water is sacred. Without water, our civilization ends, wasting water on our luxuries deprives our future of their right to clean water.

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Union officials laud Congress for limits

Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:24 PM EDT (Portsmouth Daily Times)

Union officials lauded Congress for acting to limit the amount of cheap commercial grade uranium Russia can ship into the United States, saying it will protect more than 1,000 jobs at Piketon and Paducah, Ky.

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Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to evaluate the impacts of wind energy development within Upper Great Plains

Seeded on Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:18 PM EDT (plainswindeis.anl.gov)

This is the first step in taking back our energy policy from the hands of foreign corporations. We need real and safe alternatives than those proposed by the current administration under GNEP (which will only lead to nuclear combat).

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Discipline Awaits for Indian Trust Officials Snagged in Corruption Scandal

Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:56 AM EDT (www.indiantrust.dom)

In June 2008, the Department of Interior Inspector General (DOI-IG) issued a report describing how an employee at the Office of Special Trustee (OST) for American Indians steered lucrative contracts to an accounting firm whose principals lavished him with gifts, golfing trips, an …

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Emotions run high at NRC meeting

Seeded on Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:13 AM EDT (Gallup Independent)

Cradling her infant daughter, Lynnea Smith of Crownpoint — who helped push the Navajo Nation's ban on uranium mining and milling — tried to hold back her emotions as she spoke, but the tears of frustration came anyway.

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Interior Dept. scandal: Sex, drugs, energy deals probed at Denver office - The Denver Post

Seeded on Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:47 PM EDT (The Denver Post)

I was wondering why the price of oil kept going up

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Pickens Plan Looking for New Members

Sat Sep 6, 2008 11:04 PM EDT
By PickensFan (Clipped by igmuska)

T. Boone Pickens is a long-time oil man and billionaire from Texas who has come up with a plan to change America's dependence on foreign oil. His concern? America is sending $700 billion to enemy countries to feed an increasing oil dependence.

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Washington Times - ABOVE THE LAW: America's nuclear angst

Seeded on Sat Sep 6, 2008 4:28 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

Nevadans willing to lay on train tracks, preventing nuclear waste to be stored in Yucca Mountain. Sen. Reid, NV states he will never allow Nevada to become America's nuclear dump ground.

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Commercial Banking and Bank Failures - Seeking Alpha

Seeded on Wed Sep 3, 2008 8:05 PM EDT (Energy Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha)

Relating his banking experience with the current small bank failures, the author notes that many of the failures could have prevented, provided that the federal government denied those small banks relying excessive loan speculation balanced against the small account holder equity.

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Web firms acknowledge tracking behavior without consent - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:55 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

In response to a bipartisan House inquiry, Google says it uses technology to more precisely follow Web surfing across affiliated sites.

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Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes

Seeded on Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:33 PM EDT (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said. The Government...

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Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Seeded on Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:06 AM EDT (In These )

The nuclear energy solution to global warming has a skeleton in its closet.

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22 years after Chernobyl, the nuclear industry remains mired in accidents, cover-ups and incompetence | Greenpeace International

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:59 PM EDT (Greenpeace News)

While it is commonly held that the mainstream media is another energy giant corporate lackey as are most governments, parroting whatever greenwashed solution to the global warming issue, the nuclear issue is far different as its poisons last for generations.

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Spinning the Atom

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:07 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Exposing born-again environmentalists Patrick Moore and Christine Todd Whitman as two-faced availability entrepreneurs, aka token shill slingers

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