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The Oklahoman, Ogle Mock Occupy OKC
If they want to know what they're up against locally, the Occupy OKC protesters need to look no further than a recent scathing editorial in The Oklahoman that labeled them "idiots."
Of course, you can also read the editorial as a collective expression of deep fear among the local, corporate oligarchy, and in that sense it serves as a form of flattery, showing the protests are working on some level. The rhetorical attack, coming from one of the most conservative newspapers in the country, indicates the entire "Occupy" movement has the throughout the world unnerved.
In a Wednesday editorial ("Occupy Wall Street movement: Raging against what exactly?," Oct. 12, 2011), The Oklahoman plays on the term "useful idiots" in describing the protesters here and across the nation and then makes these mocking, outlandish claims:
Jobs: Obama Administration Announces Selection of Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project and 13 Others to be Expedited Through Permitting/Review Process
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Yesterday, the Obama Administration announced the selection of 14 infrastructure projects around the country that will be expedited through permitting and environmental review processes. The administration says it's an important next step in its efforts to improve the efficiency of federal reviews needed to help job-creating infrastructure projects move as quickly as possible from the drawing board to completion.
One of the 14 selected for expedition is the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project, which will build two water treatment plants and deliver water through approximately 280 miles of pipeline, 24 pumping plants and numerous water regulation and storage facilities bringing a clean and sustainable water supply to the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation will work to improve coordination between Federal and non-federal entities and to expedite land acquisition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Land Management.
Congressman Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District applauded the move by the Obama Administration.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Another
document dump - - the
second in the last few weeks - - shows cozy relationship among the players, including American regulators now reviewing whether a major new pipeline from Canada to Texas should be approved.
With
most of the oil ticketed for export via Houston, and not for domestic usage.
Not a good development for the White House and the public interest.
Compared Worldwide, Milwaukee, Madison Air Relatively Clean, But...
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
There are new international air quality data bases on the web. You can download them
here. (Go to "Urban outdoor air pollution database, by country and city," top right, for two separate tables of comparisons.)
Little surprise that cities in newly-industrialized India, for example, or less-developed countrues with inefficient vehicle exhaust systems and smokestacks have less healthy air.
Let's just say
we're way better on
an air quality scale than Ulan Bator, far better than Paris, somewhat better than Pittsburgh and Houston, but we don't do as well as other US cities with industry such as Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Dallas, Denver, or New Orleans, for example.
And yes, I know some of our pollution comes from Chicago, where the air is dirtier than ours, but let's own our situation.
So - - room for improvement.
Death Certificates For The Executed Read "Homicide"
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Just so you know, capital punishment is a nice way of say "killing," plain and simple, and I don't care if the executed person was
Troy Davis in Georgia or Lawrence Brewer, the white supremacist in the
Texas dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.
State killing is state killing. Wrong is wrong.
It's brutal, ugly,
solves nothing, and deters no one.
And no one anywhere is any safer now than they were yesterday.
I had a bit more to say about this a few years ago, after having witnessed an execution in Texas - - George W. Bush's 1st, in 1995 - - and long before Rick Perry started to run up his bigger Texas execution toll, now numbering 244.
The Capital Times
© Copyright 2006, Madison Newspapers, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, October 07, 2006
SECTION: EDITORIAL
PAGE: A9
BYLINE: James Rowen
TEXAS-STYLE JUSTICE LOOMS IN STATE VOTE
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