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This morning, January 14, the show ran a segment on why the mainstream press has decreased coverage of global climate change. David Roberts of Grist.org was a panelist. You can watch the entire video here. One resource mentioned is a new geographic tool for locating greenhouse gas emitters. Try it out.

These aren't the gasses you're looking for

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Insensitivity, gaffes dog Romney

Narrative from Irish Times

AMERICA: MITT ROMNEY, who is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee, is hounded by the memory of Seamus the Irish setter.

My friend Orla reminded me of the story when I was in New Hampshire this week. It was history, I thought, underestimating the doggedness of US reporters.

Rachel Maddow devoted a long segment of her Thursday-night show on MSNBC to Seamus. The Dogs Against Romney website, founded in 2007, has been revived and is hawking T-shirts stamped with paw prints and the slogans “Mitt is mean!” and “Never Forget Crate Gate”. The subject is again being addressed by serious newspapers.

The incident occurred in 1983, and was first reported by the Boston Globe in June 2007, when Romney made an earlier bid for the presidency.

As recounted by the Globe , Romney, his wife and five sons set out in their Chevy station wagon on a 12-hour holiday journey to Ontario, Canada. Romney placed the family pet, Seamus, in a dog carrier, which he strapped to the roof of the car.

The eldest son, Tagg, watched out the rear window, “where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘Dad!’ he yelled. ‘Gross!’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

“As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station,” the Globe report continued. “There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back on to the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”

Romney’s detractors have created a “Google bomb”, a method of redefining a name and pushing it to the top of Google searches. If you enter “spreading Romney”, the first thing that pops up is: “(rom-ney) v. 1. to defecate in terror”.

In August 2007, Fox News presenter Chris Wallace asked Romney how he could do such a thing. “This is a completely airtight kennel and mounted on the top of our car,” Romney said. “Love my dog. We’ve had a lot of dogs over the years. Love them. Seamus, as his name is, climbed up there all by himself, enjoyed his ride . . . it was a good ride.”

Wallace failed to ask the obvious follow-up question: why Romney put Seamus back on the roof after the dog’s distress became apparent.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins has retold the Seamus story more than 30 times in five years, and the Wall Street Journal recently asked Romney to rebut Collins’s insinuations. “Uh . . . Love my dog,” Romney replied. “That’s all I’ve got for ya.”

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Lobby Firm Plans to Undermine Occupy broadcast Saturday, November 19, 2011.

A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”

The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.

Balance of MSNBC story here

My take? MSNBC, a division of Comcast – NBC Universal – General Electric, brings us notice of this plot. Makes for great television but then they have to pause every few minutes to play a commercial saying hydraulic fracking is good for you or that tar sands pipeline means jobs.

I would feel better about this if General Electric was paying [any] corporate income tax. Still, thanks to Chis Hayes for uncovering the information. Further proof that Washington is broken.

Si vis pacem, para bellum ~~Vegetius

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The debate revolves around net neutrality, which in the broadest sense holds that Internet users should have equal access to all types of information online, and that companies offering Internet service should not be able to give priority to some sources or types of content.

See Web Plan is Dividing Companies

Keith Weighs In

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Tea Party Weighs In

Congressional Representative Michelle Bachmann [R-MN] said recently that network neutrality is a plot by the Obama administration to censor the Internet so that criticism of the President is squashed.

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Debunking the Internet apocalypse

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Senator Al Franken comments on August 19, 2010. Click for video Video here

DAILY FINANCE ARTICLE

See Google, Verizon and the FCC:Inside the War Over the Internet’s Future. This article was published on September 8, 2010. It was a high-stakes gamble gone terribly wrong.
See full article from DailyFinance: here

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Santa loading toys produced by slave labor.

Senator Max Baucus [D-MT] has introduced a bill, S1631, which among other things would ban the import of goods produced by child labor, convict labor, or slave labor.

The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley [R-IA] the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Business groups and the Heritage Foundation are working to relax this ban. A story by David Sirota gives the details. Search the Library of Congress website for text of the bill and its status.

Thanks to Rachel Maddow TRMS for bringing this to our attention.

The American people are smart enough to know that the goods they buy come from the store. So how could they be produced in any of these bad ways?

If you have moral objections to goods produced with child, convict, or slave labor, you might want to support this bill. If you believe goods produced this way compete unfairly with American workers, you might want to support this bill.

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Marilyn rambled all the way to New York’s 23rd Congressional district to endorse a candidate who does not live there. See the video for details.

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News about the ACORN Act which is different from the defund
ACORN Act. Goes with the Rachel Maddow Show continuing series about the war against ACORN

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This is episode five in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show. Washington ‘gunslingers’ are available to say anything if you will pay them. Meet Rick Berman

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Will the next target for the right wing smear machine be SEIU? Episode four in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

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