Americans protest fracking for contanminating water and spewing carcinogens while Obama cheers fracking on

Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Uni …

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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Are the Dems blowing it? Barrett trails Walker by 6 points in Wis. recall poll

UPDATE 7:51 PM CDT: Ed Schultz reporting on MSNBC that Walker is outspending Barrett 25-1, and polling shows that 39% of union members are backing Walker.  --------------------------- Read the linked story in conjunction with the following comments and answer the question: …

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The Chamber of Commerce's Dark Money Days May Be Over | Mother Jones

In the annals of loopholes, one that the Federal Election Commission, the nation's election watchdog, created in 2008 could rank as one of the most absurd. The FEC's Republican commissioners decided that shadowy nonprofits running political ads (think: the US Chamber of Commerce) …

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The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See - Democratic Underground

The George Carlin & Scott Walker Clip Every American Needs To See It’s almost like George had a pair of magic, look-into-the-future glasses.Warning: A little bit NSFW.

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The Real Fraud: Second 'Non-Citizen' In James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Naturalized In 2011

In conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe’s latest video, he features two “non-citizens” who have supposedly committed voter fraud in North Carolina. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, one of the men, Zbigniew Gorzkowski, has actually been an American citi …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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Koched Up Scott Walker Invents His Own Reality with Deceptive Jobs Numbers

You might suddenly be hearing all about Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker’s “adjusted” job numbers, post the ignoble recognition of having presided over the most job losses in the nation. Remember, Romney praised Walker’s labor polici …

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The U.S. Department of Double Standards -- In These Times

On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top exe …

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