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…governments and global elites pursue short-term economic gain above all else. Their aggressive focus on growth, efficient markets, and robust trade eventually causes financial volatility as a result of poorly organized uncoordinated responses to crises in global health, environmental change, and other international issues. The global economic system appears [...]

General interest readers in America, apparently, can’t be expected to face the fact that our Congress is not only ruining our own country, it is ruining the globe.

Wow.
In addition to the fact that many Americans eat far too many calories (even while others go hungry), we apparently also waste them, to the tune of 1400 calories a day. (h/t Stuffed and Starved)
In a new paper published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS One, Kevin Hall and colleagues at the National Institute of [...]

Late last Wednesday, there was a blockbuster court ruling that got lost in the healthcare and oversight hearing onslaught. However, the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. in the In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far reaching ramifications.

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Howard Fineman

You know that vaunted editorial process that purportedly makes newspapers superior to blogs? Apparently, it comes without any critical thinking.

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Ken Salazar just reversed Bush’s plan to drill offshore.

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Did Bush just get the American taxpayers to pay thousands to Laura to grow natives on her land?

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Kudos to Ken Salazar for his efforts to roll back Bush era abuses in the Department of Interior.

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The business lobbyists who used to run the White House are complaining about the treatment they’re now getting. I know that will make you sob for them.