Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Super-Fun-Pak Comix: Percival Dunwoody meets Jeb Bush, and more:
The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has withdrawn its application for route approval through Nebraska, but a spokesman says the Canadian company reserves the right to reapply.
TransCanada made the announcement Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to appear before the Nebraska Public Service Commission for a planning conference.
Rebuilding the U.S. energy industry to substantially reduce reliance on carbon-based fuels may result in a net gain of 2 million jobs by 2050 while increasing disposable household income, according to a new studysponsored by a nonprofit that advocates clean energy.
The report, by the Virginia-based consulting firm ICF International, found that a large-scale shift to renewable sources for generating electricity could increase U.S. employment by 1 million jobs by 2030 and 2 million by 2050, even after accounting for job losses related to fossil fuels. The transition would also provide between $300 and $650 in additional disposable income per household annually in 2050, the report found.
Chelsea Manning continues to fight for the right to fulfill her gender identity while serving time in an all-male military prison facility. This past week, the Department of Justice filed a new brief in the case arguing that it would present “security concerns” if she were allowed to grow her hair past the prison’s two-inch limit.
The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) took seven months to investigate the question of letting Manning grow her hair out. She already has access to hormone therapy, female undergarments, and cosmetics, but the investigation found that it was too big of a risk.
83 percent of gun owners nationally support criminal background checks on all sales of firearms, while only 14 percent of gun owners oppose them. There is strong bipartisan agreement on the issue, with 90 percent of Democrat and 81 percent of Republican gun owners in support of background checks. Additionally, 72 percent of NRA members support them. A 2012 Frank Luntz survey of gun owners found that 82 percent were in favor of background checks, including 74 percent of gun owners. Despite well-funded efforts by the NRA and associated groups, support among both gun owners and NRA members remains high.
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Former BIA director says Clinton White House refused apology to Indians in 1999: In a speech at the Interior Department delivered as part of Native American Heritage Month this week, former Bureau of Indian Affairs director Kevin Gover (Pawnee) said it was hoped Bill Clinton would apologize for the taking of the Black Hills during a visit to the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Reservation in 1999. But, Gover said, the White House wanted nothing to do with any apology. Fourteen months later, Gover himself delivered the “Never Again” apology to the tribes in the name of the BIA. That speech drew considerable media attention (and some right-wing hatred):
"Never again will this agency stand silent when hate and violence are committed against Indians," Gover said [in September 2000]. "Never again will we allow policy to proceed from the assumption that Indians possess less human genius than the other races. Never again will we be complicit in the theft of Indian property."
On today’s “encore performance” Kagro in the Morning show, it’s the 11/19/14 episode, way back when we were still talking about Jonathan Gruber, KXL & Scott Walker as not just a viable presidential candidate, but a likely front-runner! The Bill Cosby story had just broken through & Uber was caught creeping on their clients & journalists!
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