They Hate You, Mr. President

by FishOutofWater

Mr. President you are everything that frightens them, everything that threatens their order, and everything they hate. You cannot win them over. They will always hate you. They hate you because your father was black, your mother was a white intellectual woman, because you are educated and because you are successful. Your very existence threatens their world.

At a blood red precinct in a small North Carolina town, I handed out Democratic voter information sheets to all who would take them. Out of the hundreds of white voters who walked up to vote, I was hard pressed to hand out a dozen. Blacks and Hispanics gladly took them. I chatted with the Republican candidates for local office and listened to what they said to their supporters. They hate you Mr. President. Evangelical white voters came united by hatred for you on a mission against you and Democrats who supported you.

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Politics: The Fashion Section (humor)

by mwmwm

This season's in thing? Aggressive stance!

It's not just a win, with extra-wide shoulders, very specific codpieces, and bald-man big-package whiteness, it's also causing conflagration on the catwalks.

That new style is hot, hot, HOT.

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Texting on the Farm: Mobile Technology Provides Farmers with Useful Information in India

by NourishingthePlanet

According to the U.N. Population Division, over 70 percent of Indians live in rural areas and over half of all Indians are farmers. Yet access to technology and information in many areas is limited, meaning farmers are often left uninformed and at the mercy of erratic weather and disease and pest outbreaks. And even in good growing conditions, farmers may not have access to price information that could help them negotiate with buyers or decide which markets to bring their products to.

But across rural India, mobile phones are quickly becoming an indispensable tool for farmers, helping to shrink the information gap.

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/...

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Coal Industry Continues its Shady Practices

by Bruce Nilles

My colleague said it well yesterday in his response to Tuesday's election results - we will not cede our future to polluters, who again poured tens of millions of dollars into various campaigns.

No surprise here, the coal industry is part of those polluters throwing money around to support candidates who will keep the loopholes and handouts in place and help them block any action on global warming.

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It’s Not the Climate Bill, Stupid

by Heather TaylorMiesle NRDC Action Fund

The role of federal climate legislation in the mid-term Congressional elections, to paraphrase Mark Twain, is being greatly exaggerated. For instance, Politico was quick to blame last year’s vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) for the defeat of House Democrats.

In reality, 160 Democratic representatives who voted for the House climate bill won their elections yesterday. (This does not include four races that are still too close to call as of this writing.) On the other hand, 19 of 34 representatives who voted against the bill went down in defeat. (This excludes two races that were not decided as of this writing.)

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The F*** America Project: Climate Change Denial.

by LaFeminista

So here we are with a whole new batch of climate change deniers coming to Washington DC early next year. Tired that the US is no longer number one in pollution and seeing China's problem as a threat to US supremacy and the idiots way of life; they mean to assure that this is only temporary.

But there was a decisive power shift in Congress towards those who deny the existence of manmade climate change or who oppose government action on global warming. An investigation by Think Progress, a website run by the liberal Centre for American Progress think tank, found 50% of the more than 100 Republican newcomers deny the existence of man-made climate change. An overwhelming majority, 86%, oppose legislation that would raise taxes on polluting industries. That could spell the end for progressive energy legislation and could herald a return to the George Bush era of environmental deregulation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

The one bright spot is California, but the GOP and the corporations may decide that life is so much 'better' in the increasingly deregulated 'heartland'.

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