Greenpeace activists from different countries, including the crew of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, and members of Responsible Ilonggos for Sustainable Energy (RISE) have established a “climate defenders camp” at the site of a proposed Philippines coal plant coal in Iloilo.     Full Story…

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There’s long been a question whether the Bush Administration was knowing telling falsehoods to justify the Iraq War or whether they were just confused. There’s no doubt that the justifications they used were false … but impeachability or culpability in a large extent rests on whether they purposely lied. Of course being so […]

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“How it all Ends” is an astonishingly great video series studying the climate change debate. It was put together by a high school science teacher, a truly excellent high school science teacher, using the props he had available in his classroom. He comes to a very interesting proposition that sidesteps most of the […]

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As expected the articles of impeachment ran into some headwind and got detoured into limbo.
By a 251-166 vote, the House sent the 35-count articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee, which is expected to let it die without further action. While the vote technically forces the measure to the committee for consideration, it also means […]

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Keith Olbermann and Jonathan Turley discuss the Articles of Impeachment introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the House of Representatives.

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How to Impeach is an ouline of the method of conducting an impeachment.
Impeachment itself is technically just an accusation of guilt, made by the House of Representatives. As we saw during the Clinton years a President can be impeached without being removed from office if the Senate did not Convict. In this case, […]

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I don’t think we should shut up about that. That is, we shouldn’t shut up about the tremendous litany of crimes and misdemeanors committed by the Bush Administration. Bush should not be able to just leave office and slink on back to Texas or Kuwait or wherever he’s going to end up and […]

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On June 10 Congressman Dennis Kucinich filed a proposal in Congress to Impeach George W. Bush. It’s expected this will be ignored by officialdom and indeed the Congress has already voted to send it to committee (the same as burying it).
As I called for impeachment way back in 2003, I am in full […]

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You know how you are just going along, minding your own business, doing your thing and then all of a sudden you Notice Something? Something that might be called a meme in the blogosphere and a trend or fad in real life? Well I noticed one in NIH grant land recently and it is utterly […]

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We believe that memory provides us with a faithful record of past events. But in fact, it is well established that memory is reconstructive, and not reproductive, in nature. In retrieval, a memory is pieced together from fragments, but during the reconstruction errors creep in due to our own biases and expectations.
Generally, these errors are […]

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