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• Most transparent WH: Do you know anything about 17 WH parties or 11 open houses

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Nice to include 50,000 in WH holiday events but how secure is the White House? The Obamas’ first Christmas in the White House looked set to be a white one after Washington woke up yesterday to its biggest snowfall in years, leading the mayor to declare a state of emergency. It will also prove gruelling for the ...
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• Hope? Change? Dems hope they can ram socialized HC thru B4 XMAS

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  No change in Dems buying votes so they don’t have to talk to their constituency about Obamacare. Legislators in the US senate have passed a highly contentious healthcare reform bill that could lead to significant changes in the countrys medical system. Democrats unanimously backed the bill in a vote that began at ...
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• Milestone in stem cell research for heart attack recovery

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  But they are adult stem cells not embryonic stem cells. If youve just had your first heart attack, doctors may one day be able to reverse the damage done with stem cell therapy. An intravenous method of injecting stem cells into patients who had experienced heart attacks within the previous 10 days suggested that ...
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• Obama’s love of AF1 vs. thrifty Queen of England

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Queen took the regular train for her Christmas trip. She did use 1st class section of the train. There was a buzz at King’s Cross this morning as platform 11b began crawling with police. Could it be a drug bust, the crowd wondered? Or was a rock star about to board a train? Then a small lady in a headscarf ...
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• Stimulus grant brings broadband to rural Colorado

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 616
  As high-speed broadband service has increasingly become a key utility in America, residents in many of Colorado’s rural communities are finding that they simply don’t have access to speeds needed to download music or movies–or simply research in a timely fashion. But the stimulus package may help some ...
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• The Real Story on Climate Finance

  
  Copenhagen Insider — Authority: 557
  Advertisement President Obama spoke at midday today to the assembled world leaders here in Copenhagen as negotiations continued into the final stages. He was one of many leaders to address the plenary session, following on the heels of President Lula of Brazil and the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao.    ...
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• GW News: Pelosis Carbon Footprint to save the world

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Pelosi and fellow dems flew jets to Copenhagen for photo-op. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a large delegation on at least two Air Force jets to Copenhagen for the climate summit -- where participants harshly condemn the use of jet airplanes for the high amounts of CO2 they emit. "This may be the largest ...
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• New USDA program targets struggling dairy farmers

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 648
  The nation’s struggling dairy farmers received a $290 million boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday. The department is implementing a new program, the Dairy Economic Loss Assistance Program, which was authorized by the 2010 agriculture appropriations bill and will provide loss assistance payments ...
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• Agriculture Secretary Spotlights Climate

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 735
  The United States Department of Agriculture will devote an additional $90 million over the next four years to climate change research.
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• HR????: The “Legalize Illegal Aliens” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  They are criminals. You don’t give an auto thief a new car as punishment. The bill has not yet been posted on Thomas LOC. Source: Thomas LOC "We have waited patiently for a workable solution to our immigration crisis to be taken up by this Congress and our President," said Rep. Gutierrez. "The time for waiting ...
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• S2877: The “stop selling coal” act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Alternative fuels will NEVER replace all coal, natural gas and oil. S.2877 Title: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to regulate the entry of fossil carbon into commerce in the United States to promote clean energy jobs and economic growth and avoid dangerous interference with ...
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• U.S. to Capture Cow Farts to Save the Planet

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 762
  In the future, America will harness cow farts to curb pollution and power the grid. What? It sounds like a joke, but its actually a real promise. By 2020, dairy industry emissions will be reduced by 25%, largely by persuading dairy farmers to capture methane gas, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at ...
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• Gore poleaxed by source Dr Maslowski

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Gore et al uses “ballpark” figures as reason we should destroy the world economy to “fix” the global warming scam. There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating ...
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• Gitmo North public hearing to be held after deal done

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  35-90 terrorists out of 210 would come to Thomson. Where are the rest going? The US government is set to announce a plan to use a prison in the state of Illinois to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay, according to US media reports. The near-empty facility in the rural town of Thomson could be used to house ...
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• Vilsack: Saving the Planet One Cow at a Time

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 139
  At least he isn’t talking about taxing cow flatulence , but our former governor, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack says that cow power can save the planet : The United States is counting on cows to help reduce its carbon footprint. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a plan Tuesday to ...
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• U.S. Counting on Cows to Reduce Carbon Emissions

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  U.S. Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an agreement with the American dairy industry Tuesday to reduce the industrys greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020, mostly by convincing farmers to capture the methane from cow manure that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere.
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• Public school lunch worse than fast food

  
  Homeland Stupidity — Authority: 497
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying beef and chicken to serve to your children in public school that fast-food chains reject as poor quality or even unsafe. An investigation by USA TODAY found that quality and safety standards used by fast food chains were much more stringent than those the government ...
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• Union Members Keep Focused on a Just Transition to Green Economy

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
  AFT Vice President Dick Iannuzzi writes about the importance of a just transition to a green economy . Iannuzzi is attending climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members are part of a 400-member global union movement delegation led by the International Trade Union Confederation ...
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• HR4287: The ‘Increase infestation of green commuters’ Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Another bureaucracy, Office of Livability, to promote bicycles to solve foreign oil issue. H. R. 4287 To establish an Office of Livability in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, and for other purposes. This Act may be cited as the `Enhancing Livability for All Americans Act of 2009. Here’s another ...
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• How many times has Obama escaped to Camp David?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  From Oprah speical, heard Obama and family loves Camp David. I hadn’t heard how many times they have gone there. The ultra-private, presidential mountain retreat -- a half-hour from the White House by helicopter -- has quickly found fans within the First Family. Their stay for Labor Day weekend was Obamas 10th ...
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