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Mapping the Money and PR Behind Prop 23

Ryan Van Lenning | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon, Flint Hills Resources, Climate Change, Koch Industries, Valero, ab32, Tesoro, Prop 23, Texas Oil, Emissions, Poltical Action Committees, California, Los Angeles News
Ryan Van Lenning

At least 92% of contributions being pumped into Prop 23 are from energy companies that would be regulated by the energy and climate legislation they are trying to overturn.

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Thank You So Very, Very Much, British Petrol

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas Oil, Apocalypse, BP Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill, George W. Bush, Green News
Mark Morford

Please sit down. Take a deep breath. I am going to ask you to recall something very traumatic and painful, to take a moment and remember exactly how things were not all that long ago.

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Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Iran, Natural Resources, Iran Election, War With Iran, Axis of Evil, Iran, Oil Crisis, Oil Industry, Iran-Censorship, Middle East, American-Beauty, Iran Protests, Worldview, Texas Oil, Ideal Woman, Iraq Army, Artwork, Iraq Violence, Middle East Politics, Middle East Conflict, Iran Oil, US-vs-Them, Iran Axis of Evil, Iran US Relations, Iran Protests 2009, Beauty, Iran Art Collection, Oil Politics, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iraq War, Iran Americans, Islamic Republic of Iran, Beneath-the-Veil, Oil, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iran War, Contemporary Art, Iran-American-Relations, Self-Expression, Chelsea Art Museum, Censorship, New York News
Marissa Bronfman

Iran Inside Out offers a veritable platter of provocative work that begs for discussion, debate and perhaps most importantly, an open mind.

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New York's Consumerism

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas Oil, Monetization, American Consumerism, Consumer Confidence, Consumerism, Corporate America, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Apartments, American Culture, Corporate Greed, Consumer Spending, 1950s, New York City, New York News
Reverend Billy

Consumerism is what they call a "totalizing system." It expands outward across the landscape and simultaneously into the individual's psyche. It must expand.

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Dallas, Texas: Oil-Free President Day

Alexandra Bonifield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil-Free President, Texas Oil, Dallas Oil, Oil-Free President Day, Move-on Oil-Free, Move-on Oil-Free President, Home News
Alexandra Bonifield

Dallas, with its affection for gas guzzling mega-machines, hardly seems fertile soil for passionate protest of the dismal oil crisis status quo, or for passionate support of presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News
Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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