3/11/2005
Friday Random Subvert the Dominant Link Hierarchy
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Paganfundamentalist nails the disconnect between the pro-environment movement and the Christian right. He calls it "brownwashing" I call it "Manchurian Candidacy":
What Jim Ball calls the "brownwashing" of the Bible is largely the work of the same secular powers that seek expanded Pentagon budgets, private retirement accounts and sweeping tax cuts. Corporate agendas dipped in Scripture are still corporate agendas. While to some extent fundamentalist theology is useful in packaging such views, the easy embrace of the environment among the evangelical rank and file indicates that industry is the dominant player in shaping the Christian Right worldview on the question - not religion.
- The Unofficial Kerry blog quotes Big John: "The American people did not vote to drill in ANWR.''
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Dirty Greek nails Bush on his recent speech:
Yeah. He gussies it up by saying it's "the same amount we could get from 41 states combined," which is a pointless comparison, then says it would create thousands of jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
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Public Domain Progress points out the real irony:
But, in a gusher of political irony, guess what? The oil giants have little interest in drilling there! Even a Bush advisor on this issue confided that "No oil company really cares about ANWR," adding that "If the government gave them the [drilling] leases for free they wouldn't take them."
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News Hounds dissects Gale Norton's appearance on Hannity&Colmes:
The first alternative Colmes suggested was closing the SUV fuel efficiency loophole. He claimed that doing so would save a million barrels of oil a day by 2015, more than ANWR would produce. Norton didn't deny that but said that the "Administration has raised the requirements for the light duty trucks - raised the mileage targets that they need to achieve. The president has also suggested to Congress that we have tax credits for hybrid vehicles and has urged the movement to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles."
This is, umh, what I've been saying for the last couple of weeks, Alan.
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