Video: The Kochtopus

  Uploaded by mrpolity12 Jun 2011 The Koch Brother are super-rich global warming sceptics. Which would all be fine, except for the names and fronts they seem to hide behind. The Koch’s are a case study in faking it on a massive scale. The Koch’s are pro-free market, except when they benefit. Every year they […]

Image of the Day: Master bedroom in the polygamy lair of Warren Jeffs

August 11 (The Daily) – The Daily has obtained from prosecutors a range of evidence from the trial of Warren Jeffs, including thousands of pages of documents and photos seized from his compound during a 2008 raid by Texas Rangers. A court reporter provided eight audio recordings in the case: six that were played during […]

Deer, pronghorn numbers in severe decline in Colorado, Wyoming as demands on public lands rise

August 10 (NWF) – Populations trends are declining for mule deer and pronghorn antelope herds on both sides of the Colorado-Wyoming border and herds may not be able to fully recover unless federal and state agencies act to protect core habitats, according to a report released today by the National Wildlife Federation. “We are seeing […]

Video: Texas town runs out of water

KEMP, TEXAS, August 8 (ABC) – Water conservation has been turned up a notch in one North Texas community: The water has been cut off. Kemp Mayor Donald Kile says water was turned off to residents Sunday for 48 hours. KDFW-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth reports that two weeks ago, excessive heat caused the soil to […]

Nouriel Roubini: ‘Can we avoid another severe recession? It might simply be mission impossible’

  By Nouriel Roubini7 August 2011 The first half of 2011 showed a slowdown of growth – if not outright contraction – in most advanced economies. Optimists said this was a temporary soft patch. This delusion has been dashed. Even before last week’s panic, the US and other advanced economies were odds-on for a second […]

Oklahoma and Texas droughts worsened significantly after governors asked citizens to pray for rain

By Joe Romm 4 August 2011 In light of the sustained drought, Governor Mary Fallin today asked all Oklahomans to set aside time this Sunday, July 17, to pray for rain. That was two weeks ago.  The result is that Oklahoma went from the drought condition on the right to the one on the left […]

Gulf of Mexico dead zone 10th largest on record

CHAUVIN, Louisiana, August 5, 2011 (ENS) –  This year’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly equal to the land area of the state of New Jersey, scientists said this week. At 6,765 square miles, this area of low oxygen is the 10th largest on record and is considered about average for the […]

Graph of the Day: Mean Duration of U.S. Unemployment, 1948-2011

By Joe Weisenthal5 August 2011 We used to say that the chart showing the pace of this jobs “recovery” vs. all other jobs recoveries was the scariest jobs chart ever (see here for example). But we’ve since changed our mind. It’s the average duration of unemployment — which surges without any sign of slowing down […]

Historic drought worsens in Midwest; parched Plains in bad shape

By Michael Hirtzer with additional reporting by Julie Ingwersen; Editing by John Picinich4 Aug 2011 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Drought worsened in the Midwest during the last week as record-high temperatures stressed the developing corn and soybean crops, while cotton and pastures eroded amid a historic drought in the southern Plains. Nearly 38 percent of the […]

Heat wave pushes Texas power grid into red zone – Record power usage tops 68,000 megawatts

By Eileen O’Grady, with additional reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York, editing by Chris Baltimore; Editing by David Gregorio4 Aug 2011 HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Texas power grid operator has scrambled this week to meet soaring electricity demand in the face of a brutal heat wave, and residents of the second most populous U.S. […]

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