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| As Texas Withers, Gas Industry Guzzles | |
| Published on 1 Sep 2011 by MotherJonesVideo As wells run dry and homeowners shut down their sprinklers, fracking operations are slurping up a bigger and bigger share. Reporter Josh Harkinson follows one fracking company's pipes from the source. | |
| Date: 01 September 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 822 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| Thom Hartmann: CEOs rewarded for tax dodging? | |
| Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on 1 Sep 2011 What do General Electric - EBay - Coca Cola - Verizon - Boeing - Prudential - and Capital One all have in common? They all paid their CEOs more than they paid in US taxes last year. According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies - 25 of the biggest, multi-billion dollar corporations - cut huge checks to their chief executives while dodging Uncle Sam and not paying their fair share in federal taxes last year. | |
| Date: 01 September 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| As Grim Details Emerge, Guatemalan Victims Seek Justice for US Medical Experiments | |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 31 Aug 2011 DemocracyNow.org - A White House bioethics commission has revealed gruesome new details about venereal disease experiments from 1946 to 1948 in which U.S. medical officials intentionally infected Guatemalan sex workers, prisoners, soldiers and mental patients with syphilis in order to study the effects of Penicillin. The commission concluded that nearly 5,500 Guatemalans were subjected to diagnostic testing — without their consent — and more than 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by contact or inoculations. At least 83 people died as a result of the U.S.-led research that was approved by the Guatemalan government. President Obama has apologized for the program, and Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom has described it as a "crime against humanity" and ordered his own investigation. Democracy Now! speaks with commission member, Dr. Anita Allen, a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Also interviewed is Piper Hendricks, an attorney collaborating with Guatemalan lawyers on a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who were unknowingly infected with syphilis. Since the case was filed in March, one victim has passed away. "This is something that has happened many years ago and people are waiting for decades to receive justice," notes Hendricks. "Time is of the essence to address the horrifying things that people went through back in the late 1940s." Watch Part 2 of the interview: http://youtu.be/7zhPj6z9yig | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 863 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Obama's MLK Problem | |
| This is no dream. This is a nightmare. | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 781 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Tool Time: Bill O'Reilly Has Police Investigate Wife's Lover | |
| Uploaded by TheAlyonaShow on 31 Aug 2011 "How Bill O'Reilly Tried to Get His Wife's Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops". This was a Gawker headline. According to Gawker O'Reilly used the promise of a donation to a Nassau County police charity in hopes of getting police to investigate a detective he suspected was dating his wife. So is Bill O'Reilly actually using the Nassau County Police Department as his own private investigators? Is he actually wasting tax payer dollars and resources just to find out if his estranged wife is dating a cop? | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 852 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Daryl Hanna: Why I Joined the Tar Sands Action | |
| Uploaded by StopKeystoneXL on 30 Aug 2011 http://www.tarsandsaction.org/ Video by Steve Liptay | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 809 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Global hacktivism, MLK's legacy & racial inequality in the U.S.: With former computer hacker Kevin Mitnick | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 30 Aug 2011 Former computer hacker Kevin Mitnick on hacktivist movements, plus a look at racial inequality in the U.S. | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 818 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| Radioactive waste swamps Japan sewage plants | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 30 Aug 2011 Environmental experts in Japan are warning of new fallout from the country's nuclear crisis. Radioactive waste is piling up at several sewerage plants, well away from the crippled Fukushima reactor. Months after the tsunami and earthquake that triggered the nuclear meltdown, the government still has no policy on what to do with the waste. Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Saitama. | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 861 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Fox Rips Huntsman On Global Warming | |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 29 Aug 2011 Brian Kilmeade (host of Fox & Friends) on Fox News harshly disagreed with 2012 Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman while defending candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry on global warming. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur sets the record straight. | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 859 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Syrian deaths behind bars reaching massive proportions [Warning: Distrurbing Images] | |
| Uploaded by AmnestyInternational on 31 Aug 2011 At least 88 people are believed to have died in detention in Syria during five months of bloody repression of pro-reform protests, a new Amnesty International report reveals today. Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria documents reported deaths in custody between April and mid-August in the wake of sweeping arrests. The 88 deaths represented a significant escalation in the number of deaths following arrest in Syria. In recent years Amnesty International has typically recorded around five deaths in custody per year in Syria. | |
| Date: 31 August 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 807 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |