How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

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BREAKING: A Good Laugh for Us Fellow Viners (includes funny links to The Dictator)

Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we  …

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A Risky Chase Bet Gone South, a Lack of Oversight, and JPM Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon

While President Obama and his Hollywood apostles broke fundraising records at a sumptuous $40,000 per plate dinner at George Clooney's place, word of JPM Chase's 'mistake' rippled through the news. Not long ago, Dimon's name was batted about to become Treasury Secre …

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BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren, Can She?

It will be entertainment, Brown versus Warren, though with very serious consequences.  The ordinary Massachusetts voters—the kind who doesn't tune in until the last minute—will have to choose between two story lines.  They will talk about it this way: he's a small-town Wren …

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Colonized by Corporations it is Time for Us to Rise Up with the OWS Movement

We are controlled by tiny corporate entities that have no loyalty to the nation and indeed in the language of traditional patriotism are traitors. They strip us of our resources, keep us politically passive and enrich themselves at our expense.  The colonized are denied jo …

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How Obama Gave Rise to the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Obama is twice over responsible for Occupy Wall Street's existence. On the one hand, the failures and disappointments of his administration have been well documented and have totally undercut his campaign promises of hope and change, leaving former supporters completely disil …

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Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second base

The Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game wasn't played Thursday night because Mesa Prep's second baseman is a girl. Paige Sultzbach, a freshman, is playing baseball because her high school doesn't offer girls softball. But the school Mesa Prep wa …

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Obama's presidency a disappointment around the world

Continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama's failure to close Guantanamo Bay in the face of vehement congressional opposition have dashed European support for Obama. In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack  …

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JPMorgan Chase's $2 Billion Loss: Bank Hubris, Inadequate Regulation, and Nothing to Prevent another Meltdown

JPMorgan, like the nation’s other big banks, is still engaged in activities that can provoke catastrophic losses and, as things now stand, luck is the only thing preventing another meltdown. Bank regulators should start by adopting a forceful Volcker Rule. Proposed by Paul …

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Israel: strong economically, roughly 200 nucs, little threat from Iran, more US aid, Netanyuahu government very much in control

The obsession with victimhood has prevented people in Israel and the United States from focusing on the gravest threat to Israel's existence as a Jewish and democratic state: demography. If there is no progress toward a two-state solution, at some point Israel will not to …

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Making Chemical Giants Happy and Wealthy at Our Financial, Health, and Environmental Expense

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BREAKING: Support for Fracking from UK Environment Agency head Lord Smith; claim is fracking produces clean energy and is environmentally safe

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Truth is a major obstacle to Obama's reelection

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BREAKING: The People's Bishop is Arrested as an OWS activist calls it a Badge of Honor

''Arrests are not arrests anymore," Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard said. ''They are badges of honor. They are, as you are taken away with your comrades, exhilarating. The spirit is calling us now into the streets, calling us to reject the old institutional order …

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Bayer challenges India cancer drug ruling - Yahoo! News

 India's patents chief ruled in March the price Bayer charged for the drug, Nexavar, was "exorbitant" and ordered the firm to give a so-called "compulsory licence" to make the medicine to Indian company Natco Pharma. Bayer AG has challenged a ground-breaking Indian ruling t …

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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. Close to a million people live on the US' …

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Brilliant pupil's 'logical' suicide - News - The Independent

A BRILLIANT schoolboy shot himself in the head after carefully calculating the benefits of life and deciding it was not worth living, an inquest was told yesterday.

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33 Quotes About Conservatives/Republicans That Liberals Should Know About | Addicting Info

We all know what conservatives/Republicans are like. It’s just unfortunate that they don’t know it themselves. And if they do, that’s just sad. Many things have been said about conservatives, Republicans, and conservatism. Most of it, of course, is bad but tr …

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Citing security, U.S. abandons consulate site in Afghanistan and $80M spent - The Washington Post

After signing a 10-year lease and spending more than $80 million on a site envisioned as the United States' diplomatic hub in northern Afghanistan, American officials say they have abandoned their plans, deeming the location for the proposed compound too dangerous. The emba …

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New Police Strategy in New York - Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protesters

On March 17 there were numerous reported cases of police intentionally grabbing women’s breasts, and in later nightly evictions from Union Square, the practice became so systematic that at least one woman told me her breasts were grabbed by five different police off …

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Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity - NYTimes.com

Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentration of income at the top had reached levels not seen since 1929. Often, someone in the audience would ask whether this meant  …

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BREAKING: US health care spending highest, Japan lowest: United States most expensive but not superior care for the money

"Japan operates a fee-for-service system, while offering unrestricted access to specialists and hospitals and a large supply of MRI and CT scanners," said the report. "Rather than containing costs by restricting access, Japan instead sets health care prices to keep total h …

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