Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism - Naomi Klein

I almost feel like we've been given a last chance, some kind of a reprieve. I try not to be apocalyptic, but the global warming science I read is scary. This economic crisis, as awful as it is, pulled us back from that ecological precipice that we were about to drive over with Sarah Palin and gave us a tiny bit of time and space to change course.

89.3 KPCC | Cap and Farmers

Republican Congressman Wally Herger’s district at the north end of the San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest specialty crop areas in the world, with prunes, nuts and rice.
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Felde: Herger says “cap and trade” in his district would give growers in India and China an unfair advantage. They aren't bound by energy regulations.

Ambrose: Where is Obama's transparency? | ScrippsNews

Take a glance, for instance, at the Environmental Protection Agency. According to a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Alan Carlin, a senior analyst with EPA's National Center for Economics, had the temerity along with a colleague to produce a paper casting doubt on global warming theory and especially on the reliability of computer models predicting catastrophe down the pike. His boss made it clear that the thesis was contrary to policy and the paper would not be allowed out the door.

I missed the liberal outcry on this, as opposed, say, to what we heard when NASA's global warming alarmist James Hansen whined that his press releases might be reviewed before being released during the Bush administration. No such reviews ever took place, which hardly stopped one outraged commentator from complaining that we were now in an era reminiscent of Josef Stalin's viciously controlling discourse in the Soviet Union. Hansen, the Journal piece reminds us, had given hundreds of speeches on the terror of warming, many of them during the Bush years.

Look next at what's been happening in Congress, votes on nation-altering legislation roughly as transparent as a stonewall is transparent, last-minute concoctions of 1,000 pages and more that not a single member of Congress could conceivably have had time to read. For that matter, few if any members could have had a grasp of any number of important elements in these bills even through the second-hand summaries, which is to say, the democratic process was rendered meaningless.