This week, the White House is putting unbelievable pressure on Congress to authorize an unprecedented giveaway of $700 billion to the Wall Street tycoons who steered our financial markets into a maelstrom.The bailout includes no new regulation or oversight to help avoid this kind of crisis in the future, no public interest givebacks to help [...]
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.
The methane time bomb in the Independent
This is not good at all.
In South Carolina and Rhode Island, Oct. 4 is the last day to register to vote. Here in NY the deadline is Oct 10. It’s Oct. 6 for a whole bunch of other states. If you are going to do it, now is the time. I copied the chart from Rock the Vote
Alabama
Fri, Oct. [...]
David Blaine – Upside Down from GammaBlog on Vimeo.
Blaine is amazing in his willingness to, literally, put himself in such strange positions. He looks so vulnerable here, even surrounded by security. He takes ten minutes per hour upright to get medically checked and pee. The park closes between 1 and 6AM. Who keeps an eye [...]