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Teacher Sues Birmingham News For Defamation
An Alabama teacher says in court the Birmingham News Company defamed him by falsely reporting that he taught geometric angles with a scenario about where one should stand to shoot President Barack Obama.
Gregory Harrison says Birmingham News quoted a student who was not even in his class and destroyed his reputation by disseminating false and defamatory information about him in the national media.
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Fed Up With Conservatives' Austerity Measures
If you've been keeping up with the news, you know massive crowds have marched and protested in Spain, Italy, France and England in protest of conservative "austerity" measures (the rich get the mine, the working class gets the shaft). Greek pro-austerity politicians have been voted out. The same has happened in France, England and Germany.
Will America be next? We can hope.
WHY Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Big Oil?
Why are taxpayers subsidizing Big Oil to the tune of $52 BILLION per year?
Why did Exxon Mobile pay no taxes and actually receive a $156 Million rebate?
Why are ALL of these major companies paying no taxes? (Because they own politicians.)
Global Warming
It's real. Very real. Big Oil, the Kochs, and right-wing groups like Americans For Prosperity (a Koch group) are working hard to try to convince people that we're not killing our world. They're liars because they profit from the fossil fuels which are killing Earth...and quite possibly our grandchildren.
Click if you dare:
Climate Statistics from NASA
Scientific American: 3/4 of Climate Change is Manmade
Some Alabama Farmers Cut Back On Planting
Some Alabama farmers say they are planting less produce rather than risk having tomatoes and other crops rot in the fields a second straight year because of labor shortages linked to the state’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Those Alabama workers who were supposed to harvest the crops? One farmer says, “They’ll work a morning and come up at lunchtime and say, ‘I’m done"
Washington Post
Higher food prices? Thank a Republican politician.
Homeless Children In Alabama
Alabama is not doing very well on the homeless children front. According to a 2010 report, Alabama ranks dead last (50th) among states in child well-being.
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