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God Promises 30 Percent Increase In Global Warming By 2012 While at Copenhagen
Posted by Lee Camp, AlterNet on December 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM.

As the Copenhagen Climate Conference enters its second week, how many of us are paying attention?

Awesome: Pink Glove Dance for Breast Cancer Awareness
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 10, 2009 at 11:45 AM.

The staff at Portland's Providence St. Vincent Medical Center put this together to raise awareness about breast cancer. 

h/t Courtney at Feministing.com

Alan Grayson to Dick Cheney: STFU
Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet on December 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM.

Entertaining political theater, courtesy of Tweety and Alan Grayson. Enjoy [ht: Oliver Willis] ...

Rachel Maddow Takes on Man Who Claims He Can Make Her Straight
Posted by Jan Frel, AlterNet on December 9, 2009 at 3:14 AM.

Maddow's thorough takedown of Richard Cohen, whose teachings on Gay-Straight Therapy have been debunked by essentially all national (and even state) psychological associations and associated peer-reviewed assessments.

Check out AlterNet's recent interview with Ted Cox, who posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs.

Part 1 of the video is to the right.

Part 2 of this video below:

2011? Did We Say 2011? Administration Officials Backpedal on Afghan Withdrawal
Posted by Staff, Think Progress on December 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM.

As administration officials touted the President’s new Afghanistan strategy on the Sunday political talk shows, they underscored that the U.S. troops may not be coming home in 2011:

Gen. David Petraeus: "There's no timeline, no ramp, nothing like that." [Fox News Sunday]

National Security Adviser James Jones: "It is not a cliff. It is a glide slope. And so certainly, the President has also said we are not leaving Afghanistan." [CNN State of the Union]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "Well, first of all, I don’t consider this an exit strategy. And I try to avoid using that term. I think this is a transition." [ABC This Week]

Watch a compilation.

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This Week in Right-Wing Media Crazy
Posted by Staff, Media Matters for America on December 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM.

The video to your right comes to us from the good folks at Media Matters.

The Story of Cap and Trade: More Scam Than Solution
Posted by Tara Lohan, AlterNet on December 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM.

If you've heard anything about how we're going to solve our climate crisis then cap and trade is likely familiar to you. But if you don't know exactly what it is, then this new video from Annie Leonard (who also did "The Story of Stuff") is definitely in order. You can also check out a contrarian perspective from David Roberts at Grist.

Here's the description of Leonard's "Story of Cap and Trade."

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis. If youve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren't sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

President Obama's Escalations in Afghanistan Far Exceed Troop Increases Discussed in Campaign
Posted by ZP Heller on December 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM.

And that's just his latest escalation.

During the campaign, he said he'd send around 12,000 troops. So far, he's sent 50,000. Each of these troops will cost taxpayers in the U.S. $1 million per year.

Learn more at http://rethinkafghanistan.com.

The Tar Sands Suck
Posted by Staff, Agit-Pop on December 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the dirtiest oil on earth. Totally lame.

Activists Strip Down to Their Birthday Suits to Protest Fur
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM.

Tony Kushner: Right-Wing Opposition to Recognizing Climate Change Comes "Entirely From Greed"
Posted by Staff, TheNation.com on November 30, 2009 at 1:25 PM.

In 1991, Angels in America was one of the first major American dramas to take on the impact of human lives on the environment, as the character Hannah Pitt fretted about the hole in the ozone layer. Eighteen years later, the U.S. is on the verge of major negotiations over another, still more intractable instance of environmental degradation caused by humans, in Copenhagen this December. The Nation asked playwright and Editorial Board member Tony Kushner to reflect on the environmental legacy of Angels in America, and to discuss the artistic challenges of coping with an issue like climate change.

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Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet on November 27, 2009 at 6:00 PM.

In the window to your right, see frequent AlterNet contributor discuss Blackwater on Keith Olbermann's show. And if you missed it this Tuesday, be sure to check out Jeremy's piece on the shady mercenary firm's secret war in Pakistan.

Glenn Beck Dividing U.S. into 7 Parts ... Will Offer Americans Right-Wing Education
Posted by Staff, Media Matters for America on November 23, 2009 at 1:57 PM.

Who says conservatives don't value book learnin'?

Check out the video to your right, courtesy of Media Matters.

What Sarah Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel" prediction really means
Posted by Bruce Wilson, AlterNet on November 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM.

There's some acceptance that statements such as Sarah Palin's prediction that Jews will soon be "flocking to Israel" may indicate Palin holds apocalyptic beliefs. What's not understood is that she's closely associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, including one most commonly used by the Third Reich, in the 1930's and 1940's, to whip up anti-Semitic hatreds: the claim that a worldwide cabal of Jewish bankers manipulates the world economy and preys on working classes.

Stumping for her new autobiography, Sarah Palin has made a round of interviews with high profile media figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. In the Walters interview Palin justified her support for expansion of Jewish settler enclaves on Israel's West Bank with a strange prediction. Walters asked, "Now let's talk about some issues - the Middle East. The Obama Administration does not want Israel to build any more settlements on what they consider Palestinian territory. What is your view on this ?" Palin responded, "I disagree with the Obama Administration on that. I believe that, um, the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon because the population of Israel is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead."

Why might Palin's prediction come to pass ?

In the 1920's and 1930's, rising anti-Semitism was propelled, in part, by conspiracy theories alleging that Jewish bankers such as the Rothschild banking family controlled both the German and world economies through the manipulation of global money markets. Leaders in Sarah Palin's religious tendency have for years been promoting extremely similar conspiracy theories. Some of these allege that the Rothschild banking family heads an international conspiracy that dominates much of the world economy and controls the U.S.economy through the Federal Reserve.

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Hmmm ... Why Do So Many Wingnuts Have Such an Obsessive Fear of Being Raped?
Posted by Staff, Media Matters for America on November 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM.

Conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage frequently employ rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. For example, Beck said that New Yorkers are "being raped by [their] government," while Limbaugh, during a discussion of health care, told his listeners: "Get ready to get gang-raped again."

Video to your right; much more after the jump ...

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