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| Texas Towns Tap Toilets to Beat Drought | |
| Published on 11 Aug 2011 by AssociatedPress After years of diminishing water supplies made worse by the second-worst drought in state history, some West Texas communities are resorting to a plan that might have seemed absurd a generation ago: turning sewage into drinking water. (Aug. 11) | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 10:29:11 - Added by: KMC | |
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| UN: Hundreds of Thousands Face Starvation | |
| Published on 11 Aug 2011 by AssociatedPress The United Nations warned that the famine in East Africa hasn't peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response. (Aug. 11) | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 09:56:00 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Japan's nuclear crisis & the roots of the London Riots | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 10 Aug 2011 Is social media more reliable than the Japanese government? And what role did race and class have in the London riots? | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 09:39:03 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Darcus Howe & Richard Seymour on UK Massive Social Unrest and Riots | |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 10 Aug 2011 DemocracyNow.org - Unrest continues to spread across England after protests erupted Saturday in London when police shot to death Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man. Mobs firebombed police stations and sets shops on fire in London, Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. After waiting for several days, Prime Minister David Cameron has cut short his vacation and recalled Parliament from summer recess. Scotland Yard has ordered its officers to deploy every available force to stop the unrest, including water cannons and possibly the use of plastic bullets. London has been flooded with 16,000 officers, the largest police presence in the city's history. Democracy Now! interviews journalist Darcus Howe, a longtime critic of police brutality in black and West Indian communities across the U.K., and author and blogger Richard Seymour of the popular British site | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:51:30 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Ratigan Blasts US Political-Banking Ties; Corrupt Congress | |
| MSNBC—Aug. 9, 2011--Dylan Ratigan unleashes his anger against a system that he says stacks the deck against the American middle class. | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:50:30 - Added by: KMC | |
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| John Nichols Knows Something About Wisconsin That Fox News Will Never Tell You | |
| Uploaded by democracynow on 10 Aug 2011 DemocracyNow.org - For analysis on the Wisconsin recall vote, Democracy Now! speaks with John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine based in Madison. Although Republicans hold onto a slim 17-to-16 majority after the election, Nichols says the Democrats' pickup of two seats, coupled with the moderate stance of Republican State Sen. Dale Schultz, amounts to a new | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:41:40 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Police tactics wrong during riots in English cities | |
| Published on 11 Aug 2011 by Euronews Was it protest, politics or sheer criminality which sparked the riots and looting in London and other cities in England? After a quiet night on the streets and amidst criticism of the planned cutbacks in police numbers, parliament met to consider the causes. The government outlined its response to MPs recalled to Westminster from their summer recess. | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:35:21 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Debtmageddon | |
| Uploaded by markfiore on 10 Aug 2011 Dogboy & Mr. Dan are back at it, this time a little closer to the precipice of US default on the debt. Dogboy doesn't quite understand what's going on so Mr. Dan helps him out. Learn all about Congress, Obama and the Great Depression! A Mark Fiore political animation. | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:22:22 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 857 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| SpongeBob Global Warming Agenda! (Fox News) | |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 4 Aug 2011 Fox News hosts are claiming that the Nickelodian show SpongeBob Squarepants is pushing a liberally biased position global warming. Cenk Uygur breaks it down. | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 07:09:52 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Bachmann Institute For Curing Gayness (UNDERCOVER VIDEO) | |
| Uploaded by TheSecondCityNetwork on 10 Aug 2011 We went undercover at the Marcus Bachmann Institute For Curing Gayness, and what we found was disturbing... Starring Second City Alumni Michael Bertrando & Brad Morris Written by: Michael Bertrando Directed by: Joshua Funk Editor: Chris Dandridge http://dandridge.relentlessfilms.com Producer/DP: Mike Damanskis Music: Kevin MacLeod | |
| Date: 2011-08-11 06:53:39 - Added by: KMC | |
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