Posted by 747btrfly, at 02:48PM 08/22/08 :
The T. Boone Pickens Profile You Haven't Read | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
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FTP: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who once said he considered Pickens his "mortal enemy," will host him this month at a clean-energy summit in Las Vegas, along with Bill Clinton. Even Al Gore, who has his own proposal to wean the U.S. power grid from fossil fuels within a decade, pronounced the Pickens Plan "respectable" last month."
tags: environment
groups: in Energy, All things on US.Politics, Political Opinion , Global Warming, Environment, Nuclear Age
Posted by walkertr, at 10:45AM 08/22/08 :
CNN Finds That Web Focus Pays
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While CNN typically trails Fox News on cable television, CNN.com maintains a wide lead over its cable competitors online. More than 33 million people went to CNN.com in June, spending a total of 1.3 billion minutes getting news and information from the site. CNN’s Web site has occupied Nielsen Online’s top spot for news for 11 months in a row.
tags: cnn
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Posted by phoebus__221, at 06:20AM 08/22/08 :
TSA Martinet Claims Her Unpublished Rules Trump Real Ones
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TSA, can you at least train your agents to do their jobs properly? Wed appreciate it even more if youd discipline those who go all stupidly power-mad and think they have to win every encounter, even when it means making up new rules on the spot. Heres a story of a soldier who lost a day of leave because one of your agents caused him trouble.
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Posted by 747btrfly, at 05:05PM 08/21/08 :
Why are Corporate Media Giving Fat Paychecks to Former Bush Aides? | PEEK | AlterNet
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FTP: "Former Counselor to President Bush, Dan Bartlett, has joined CBS News as a political analyst. Bartlett will provide on-air analysis on a variety of political issues, “including at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and beyond,” according to the press release."..............Do read more. Media is run by the government or, better to say that they are told what to present as "truth" to the American people.
tags: bush
· media
· politics
· corporations
· bush aides
groups: in All things on US.Politics, Politics, U.S. Politics, Political Opinion , Opinionista, Election 2008, US Presidential Election 2008, Media and Content, NBC-ABC-CBS