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LETTER: Governor Walker Serves the Rich

LETTER: Governor Walker Serves the Rich

” … Walker collected $12.1 million between January 2011 and mid-January 2012. Fourteen of Walker’s top 20 donors are from outside of Wisconsin. … “ Superior Telegram, May 14, 2012 To the Telegram: Where oh where can the governor be? Why, he’s in California, New York, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee. What’s he doing there, you ask: Raking in millions and millions in cash. He’s a “Rock Star” you see! As we can see, being a “Rock

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DWU Professor Publishes Article on Court Decisions Regarding US Eugenics in the 1920s that Anticipated Nazi Atrocities

DWU Professor Publishes Article on Court Decisions Regarding US Eugenics in the 1920s that Anticipated Nazi Atrocities
DWU prof publishes essay on eugenics News release, Dakota Wesleyan University May 11, 2012 Jesse Weins Years before the atrocities of the Nazi regime, the United States introduced sterilization laws for the “mental defectives” within state institutions all across the nation. The move arose from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1924 in the case Buck v. Bell. Jesse Weins, assistant professor of criminal justice at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, published an essay called “Buck v. Bell” in the Twenties in America encyclopedia released in April. The Twenties in America encyclopedia is a three-volume series which serves as a student resource covering a variety of subjects including movements, trends in popular culture, literature, science, technology, economics and politics in both the United States and Canada. Weins discusses the Buck v. Bell case in depth with the history of not only the case but of the events surrounding it and

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Congress Lends Statuary Hall to Religious Right Activists

By Steve Benen The Maddow Blog, May 8, 2012 In Washington, DC, events, rallies, and protests are exceedingly common, especially around Capitol Hill and the National Mall. What’s far less common are events in Statuary Hall. And yet, as my friend Rob Boston reported, that’s one of the things making a prayer rally on Capitol Hill today interesting. On May 8, a group called Come Pray With Me plans to hold a prayer service in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. This is kind of a big deal. Statuary Hall isn’t some sort of public facility that anyone can use.

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Mafia Boss Breaks Silence over Roberto Calvi Killing

Mafia Boss Breaks Silence over Roberto Calvi Killing

By Tony Thompson The Guardian, May 12, 2012 Financier Roberto Calvi was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London in

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US is Drilling its Way to Zero Net Oil Imports – Horizontal Drilling, Multi-Stage Fracturing Drive Surge in Onshore Volumes

Analyst: Numbers show that US is drilling its way to zero net oil imports Horizontal drilling, multi-stage fracturing drive surge in onshore volumes, key to reversing decades-long production decline By Katherine Scott, editorial coordinator Drilling Contractor, May/June, 2012 An increasing US crude production coupled with declining oil demand is resulting in a sharp reduction in the nation’s oil imports, according to Raymond James and Associates. They believe that US oil and gas companies have already worked toward reversing a nearly four-decade-long decline in oil supply. Source: EIA, RJ estimates Horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing are working hard for the industry, and the results are paying off. According to research by Raymond James and Associates, by opening the door to vast resources of unconventional liquids, the industry has radically reshaped the trajectory of US oil production. This is reversing a nearly four-decade-long decline in oil production. Coupled with declining US oil demand due in part to better vehicle efficiency, the shift is moving the country toward energy independence. Owed to fact that US oil and gas companies have already overcome

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The Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism? (Video)

The Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism? (Video)

Summary: Investigative Reporting on the Web panel featuring panelists Jonathan Landman, The New York Times; Sharon Tiller, Frontline/WORLD; Paul Grabowicz, UC Berkeley; Jeff Leen, The Washington Post; Stephen Talbot Moderated. This event was a part of a conference entitled The Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism? sponsored by the Investigative Reporting Program, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California Berkeley. http://fora.tv/2008/04/26/The_Crisis_in_News_Investigative_Reporting_on_the_Web

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Process of Extermination: ‘The Spanish Holocaust,’ by Paul Preston (NYT Book Review)

Process of Extermination: ‘The Spanish Holocaust,’ by Paul Preston (NYT Book Review)
Re: THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain By Paul Preston Illustrated. 700 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. By ADAM HOCHSCHILD NewYork Times, May 11, 2012 Miners captured by General Franco’s forces in 1936, before their execution in Seville. In “Homage to Catalonia,” his memoir of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell remarks that Francisco Franco’s military uprising against Spain’s elected government “was an attempt not so much to impose fascism as to restore feudalism.” Paul Preston’s magisterial account of the bloodshed of that era bears this out. Fascism may belong to the 20th century, but

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Rupert Murdoch in the News – Fair and Balanced Vilifications of the Most Reviled Man in Media

Rupert Murdoch in the News – Fair and Balanced Vilifications of the Most Reviled Man in Media

Murdoch Confidante Recalls Chummy Ties With British Leaders New York Times Blogs, May 11, 2012 Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics and practices of the media at the High Court in central London on Friday. … So chummy were the relations between Britain’s political leaders and Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper subsidiary, that at one point Ms. Brooks found herself cheekily lecturing a future prime minister, David Cameron, about how to avoid humiliating himself by text message, she said. “Occasionally he would sign them LOL — ‘lots of love,’ ” Ms. Brooks told the Leveson Inquiry on media ethics and practices, speaking

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