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The Wonks Who Sold Washington on South Sudan
(credit Reuters, not me)
The Houston janitors strike could use the help, I love and respect them for having the courage to stand and refuse to be disrespected
So I just learned this even though it is a little old. You will need a translator. What is newsworthy about it is that is just was not covered my the press as far as I know. Very large protests in Mexico on their last election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FRY-O4X-k&feature=player_embedded#!
Sen Kissel (D) from NC...Voted with the Republi-"Cons", today, Against the citizens of NC....pathetic...there are alot of us Northerners here in Charlotte...who will make it our Business to make him REgret this!!! ...ObtW Chris Hayes & Staff...we luv your new show...watch you here in Charlotte every weekend! Great Job!! ... from Trish
A Rising Tide of Acid Off California
by Robert F. Service on 14 June 2012, 2:05 PM |
Although this carries the date of June 14 it was just posted on ScienceNow this week.
Here's a sample from the text
Foreboding. Animation of changes in ocean acidification over time in the California Current System. The left side shows the depth of aragonite saturation, and the right side shows the surface ocean pH.
Courtesy of Nicolas Gruber and Claudine Hauri
The buildup of atmospheric CO2 will rapidly increase the amount of undersaturated waters in the upper 60 meters of ocean, where most organisms live, the team reports online today in Science. Prior to industrialization, undersaturation conditions essentially did not exist at this top layer in the ocean. Today, Gruber says, undersaturation conditions exist approximately 2% to 4% of the time. But by 2050, surface waters of the California Current System will be undersaturated for half of the year.
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This phenomenon was unknown to me and as I read the text, a surprise to the scientists too.
I think it's of interest in the ongoing discussion about climate change.
Chris's program last week was important and I watched it carefully.
Should UP decide to use this, the pronunciation of my name is just as it looks.
Thanks for a terrific program. The two members of this household - born 1942 and 1943 are riveted and impressed every week. I keep telling others about it. Thank heavens for the technology of the DVR!
Book is terrific too, as I told Chris when he signed my book in Cambridge MA last month.
Could you post a link? Yes the acidification of the oceans due to atmospheric CO2 is a huge and unreported story. Everyone talks about global warming but CO2 caused other problem as well. I believe there are oyster farmers already in dire straight because of this.
Emergency rooms need to re-evaluate sending patients home before their tests come back
I hope you will mention E Mark Adams sent to Rikers for 45 days days for tresspassing during Occupy movement set to be released on the 15th.
While heading the 2002 Olympic games, Romney commissioned pins with the ironic slogan "We stand united".
They were made in China too. (source thinkprogress)
Interestingly, commentators on the Right are decrying the fact the 2012 US uniforms were made in China. What is the rationale? Consider Romney's choice: If a Chinese company bids lower to make the pins, then taking that contract will deliver the lowest cost of goods and therefore the highest profits for the charity that will benefit from the pin sales. Yet this strikes voters as not right, either in the case of the Ralph Lauren contract or with the pins. Under what conditions is it OK from the conservative perspective that some other factor take precedence over the profit motive?
The objective here is not to look for hypocrisy in the conservative perspective, but to look for common ground. Because whatever language they are using to describe conditions when profit motive does not trump all other factors is possibly an area of common ground between progressives and conservatives on economic issues.