We already know that the Keystone XL pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen. But, it turns out that the impact of that tar sands pipeline could be even worse than we thought. According to a new study by the Stockholm Environmental Institute, Keystone could add four times more carbon pollution to our atmosphere than the State Department originally estimated.

 

EcoWatch.com explained that the State Department's Environmental Impact Statement only considered Keystone's effects on the US, as if oil consumption and carbon pollution somehow magically stops at our borders. The new report from Stockholm considered how the tar sands pipeline would reduce oil prices in the global market, and how those lower prices would effect oil consumption and pollution.

 

The authors wrote, "for every barrel of increased production, global oil consumption would increase 0.6 barrels [because of] the incremental decrease in global oil prices." Although the final approval of the Keystone XL has been delayed, building this toxic tar sands project shouldn't even be a possibility.

 

We should be investing in clean energy and green infrastructure, not enabling further destruction of our environment. From job creation to so-called "American Energy Independence," - every supposed benefit of the Keystone pipeline has been debunked. The only things we'll get from the tar sands pipeline are more pollution, more oil spills, more global warming, and more environmental disasters.

 

President Obama has all the evidence he could possibly need to reject this toxic pipeline, so there's no reason to delay. It's time for our nation to invest in a cleaner, greener future, and say "No" to Keystone XL once and for all.

 

-Thom

 

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Militarization vs. community policing
- Ron Hampton, Institute of the Black World / National Black Police Association  

 

World Premiere..
- CARBON, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

       

Community Square  

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 "Bernie busts some billionaires' balls"
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "James Foley beheading video is authentic, US says" by BBC.

Article: "Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S." by CNN, November 2, 2004.

Article: "Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech ", 01 Nov 2004.

Article: "How Ferguson exposes the racial bias in local elections" by Brian Schaffner, Wouter Van Erve and Ray LaRaja.

Movie: "Charlie Wilson's War".

 

The good: Brandon Merriweather and the rest of the team: "NFL Players Just Took a Powerful Stand in Support of Ferguson" by Abdullah Saeed.

The bad: "CSIS tells Amnesty International "suck it" over Ferguson tweet" by Ishbel Macleod.

The very, very ugly: "KKK 'Raising Money' For Cop Who Shot Unarmed African-American Teen Michael Brown".

Article: "FBI Raids of Charter School Operators Jump" by Ruth Conniff.

Article: "For-Profit College Grads Have The Same Shot At A Job Interview As People Who Never Went To College" by Alan Pyke.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868

Site: "Mondragon Corporation".

Video: President Obama Statement on James Foley.

Speech: "Transcript: President Obama's remarks on the execution of journalist James Foley by Islamic State, August 20 2014.

Hour Two: Militarization vs. community policing
- Neil McCabe, Guns and Patriots Newsletter 

 

Site: Green World Rising.

Video: Carbon.

Article: "Tomgram: William Astore, The Bomber Will Always Get Funded -- and Used" by William Astore.

Article: "Ferguson poll: Race gap on issues" by Kendall Breitman.

Article: "The Ghost of Ronald Reagan - The Mulford Act" by phantom power.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Luke Vargas 

Article: "World Is 'Appalled' By Foley Execution, Obama Says" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Brutal beheading of James Foley an attempt to provoke ground invasion of Iraq and Syria" by Tom Allard.

Article: "Liberia fights Ebola in capital, W. Africa toll tops 1,200" by Clair MacDougall and Stephanie Nebehay.

Article: "Ebola crisis: Liberia confirms West Point patients missing" by BBC.

Article: "Ebola: UN health agency reports encouraging signs in Nigeria, Guinea" by UN.

Article: "Sierra Leone's 365 Ebola deaths traced back to one healer" by Agence France-Presse.

Article: "Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano alert raised to orange" by BBC.

Article: "North Korea Insults John Kerry Over His Looks" by Hyung-Jin Kim.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 8/20" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 8/19" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Conservatives push out myth on immigration
- Bishop Council Nedd II, Project 21  

Article: "Influx of Illegal Immigrant Children Likely to Strain Public Schools" by Project 21.

 

Article: "McConnell's plan to shut down Obama" by Manu Raju.

Article: "German journalists arrested in Ferguson " by The Local.

Article: "Don't lecture people on 'due process' when you're pointing guns at their heads" by Hunter.

Article: "Paul Ryan thinks it's the police's job to shoot unarmed teens" by kos.

Article: "David Jolly working on bill that would require local law enforcement to be trained to use military equipment " by Mitch Perry.

Article: "Five Children Murdered After They Were Deported Back To Honduras" by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee.

 

Article: "The Best and Worst Places in America to Educate Your Child" by Elizabeth Hines.

Article: "This Coffee Shop Is Staffed By Homeless People - And It's Working" by Scott Keyes.

Article: "Federal judge rules that U.S. can keep surveillance court orders secret" by Reuters.

Article: "American Banks Just Posted Their Second-Highest Quarterly Profit On Record" by Alan Pyke.

Article: "Starbucks Changes Scheduling Practices To Make Them More Humane For Employees" by Bryce Covert.

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