By Jeremy Bloom The last four hold-outs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon have been refusing to leave for two weeks, since the FBI arrested the main ringleaders. It appears that the FBI has moved in and will attempt to remove them tonight. The four remaining anti-government militants — David Fry, Sean Anderson, […]
By Jeremy Bloom With a decisive win over rival Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders came out and gave a fiery speech in front of a packed hall full of us young, fired-up supporters. Taking advantage of what will likely be many Americans’ first look at him, the self-described Democratic Socialist gave a modified stump speech, hitting […]
“Thank you, all, very, very much. My goodness. I don’t know what we’d have done tonight if we actually won. This is a pretty exciting event, and I’m very grateful to all of you. I want to begin by congratulating Senator Sanders on his victory tonight, and I want to thank each and every one […]
By Jeremy Bloom One of the most depressing things about US politics today is the way whacko conspiracy theories that were laughed at 10 years ago are now being spouted by GOP front-runners. And on climate change, Ted Cruz is the most paranoid/whacko. Watch him go off on an 8-minute rant at a recent campaign […]
By Jeremy Bloom Should the GOP punk Punxatawny Phil? After all, he’s predicting SPRING IS COMING SOONER… which as Bill Maher sagely notes, makes him a CLIMATE ALARMIST in the eyes of Ted Cruz and Co. Watch this spoof ad… which asks the obvious question, “If scientists can really predict the future, why don’t more […]
By Jeremy Bloom For years, Walmart’s business plan has been simple: Come into small towns (often with tax breaks and subsidies), out-compete local businesses and drive them into the ground. But with profits falling, they’re now shutting down 269 stores and abandoning those communities – in many cases, leaving them with no grocery store and no […]
Click HERE to follow our liveblogging of the Canadian Election. It’s looking like an unprecedented blow-out by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. Exciting news for all progressives and climate change activists, as anti-science, pro-oil, pro-pipeline, pro-tar sands climate denier Stephen Harper is going down to ignominious defeat.
By Jeremy Bloom It’s been a tight race, but over the past couple of weeks it’s looked like the public disgust with Stephen Harper’s Conservative party had coalesced in a tsunami of support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. It’s looking like an unprecedented blow-out by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. Exciting news for all progressives and climate change […]
By Jeremy Bloom Who won the Democratic Debate? It’s pretty clear from this Saturday Night Live parody…. DEMOCRATS! Now let’s get out there and fix the country…. Featuring: Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) Bernie Sanders (Larry David) Jim Webb (Alec Baldwin) Lincoln Chafee (Kyle Mooney) Martin O’Malley (Taran Killam) hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper (Jon Rudnitsky).
By Jeremy Bloom Echoing the feelings of just about every American outside the Tea Party, Bernie Sanders jumped down Anderson Cooper’s throat when he got all snippy about the Hillary Clinton e-mail non-scandal (seven investigations and still no “there” there!). It was the most-tweeted moment of last night’s Democratic Debate: “… I think the secretary is right,” he […]
By Jeremy Bloom With cleanup barely begun four years after the Fukushima disaster, a new study looking at the run-up to the worst nuclear meltdown in history says it could have easily been prevented. While most studies have focused on the response to the accident, we’ve found that there were design problems that led to the disaster […]
By Jeremy Bloom The Wall Street Journal reports that scientists investigating the Fukushima power plant have confirmed a third of its reactors had a serious meltdown when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant. Part of the problem: The plant is such a disaster that the only way they can tell what the hell happened, […]
By Jeremy Bloom Jeb Bush, the man who is running away from his own last name (Jeb!) introduced an energy policy this week which is the exact opposite of reality. In the face of an oil and gas glut that has driven down prices and is driving over-extended energy companies into bankruptcy, Jeb! comes up […]
By Jeremy Bloom Denial is a funny thing. It’s particularly funny watching as the story moves from “Oil production and fracking can’t possibly be creating earthquakes in Oklahoma” to “Okay, there’s evidence but it’s not proven” to “Okay, it’s proven but we’re still not going to do anything about it.” In the case of the […]
By Jeremy Bloom Bill Maher says you’d never know the real state of the country, and the US economy in particular, if you only listened to the candidates in Wednesday’s GOP debate. “It seems to me there was an amazing conspiracy of delusion among the people on that stage,” he says, “because they talked about […]