Return of the BP Cover-Up

Earlier this month, the federal government claimed that three-quarters of the oil in the Gulf had magically disappeared. But as reported Wednesday, the federal government has so far refused to provide congressional investigators and the media with the numbers to support that claim. Now, it looks like the official report, with all the data and substantiating material, won't be released for months.

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Visions of Virginia's Tomorrow

Visions of Virginia's Tomorrow

Starring: 

Bob McDonnell and Mark Obenshain

Also appearing: 

Todd Gilbert, Steve Landes, and newcomer Tony Wilt

Possible surprise performances by Richard "Dickie" Bell and Emmett Hanger

 

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainable Energy Today!

The Living Planet City is a virtual city, but real communities in Canada and around the world are already using similar systems. In these communities, citizens are gaining a whole new understanding of energy, and actively engaging in the fight against climate change. They are lowering greenhouse gas emissions and securing a local, renewable energy supply, all while reducing their energy bills and creating good, green jobs.

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Fox Biz News for Dummies

GOP plan to extend tax cuts for rich adds $36 billion to deficit, panel finds

A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than $36 billion to the federal deficit next year -- and transfer the bulk of that cash into the pockets of the nation's millionaires, according to a congressional analysis released Wednesday.

New data from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation show that households earning more than $1 million a year would reap nearly $31 billion in tax breaks under the GOP plan in 2011, for an average tax cut per household of about $100,000.

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Deficits 101 - Economics for Republicans

You too can understand the poverty of economic vision offered up by the Republican Party. Watch this video of Republicans talking about the nation's financial state. And for our rightwing friends, who don't read, and like their information delivered on the Tee Vee, it's perfect. If you can't sit still for 7 minutes, here's the short version:

FAREED ZAKARIA (8/1/2010): You see, George Bush's massive tax cuts are the single largest chunk of our structural budget deficit. ... Were the tax cuts to expire, the budget deficit would instantly shrink by about 30%, or more than $300 billion dollars.

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U.S. blackouts skyrocket as system allowed to age...

Experts on the nation's electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers.
During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124 percent -- up from 41 blackouts between 1991 and 1995, to 92 between 2001 and 2005, according to research at the University of Minnesota.

In the most recently analyzed data available, utilities reported 36 such outages in 2006 alone.
"It's hard to imagine how anyone could believe that -- in the United States -- we should learn to cope with blackouts," said University of Minnesota Professor Massoud Amin, a leading expert on the U.S. electricity grid.

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