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CPAC outfoxed by 21st-century conservatives
2013-03-08 01:42:11| Air Courier - Topix.net
A sponsor for the upcoming CPAC gathering, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will use a room assigned to the free-market conservative think tank to conduct a pro-gay rights panel titled, "A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet." CEI spokesman Brian McNicoll says via e-mail, "As a sponsor, CEI gets ... (more)
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In Conservatives Canada, Its Not Easy Being Green
2013-02-20 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Canada`s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal. The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada`s spy agency CSIS are increasingly conflating terrorism and extremism with peaceful citizens exercising their democratic rights to organise petitions, protest and question government policies, said Jeffrey Monaghan, a researcher with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University...
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Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives
2013-02-15 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Conservatives used a pair of secretive trusts to fund a media campaign against windfarms and solar projects, and to block state agencies from planning for future sea-level rise, the Guardian has learned. The trusts, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, served as the bankers of the conservative movement over the past decade. Promising anonymity to their conservative billionaire patrons, the trusts between them channelled nearly $120m to contrarian thinktanks and activists, wrecking the chances...
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Climate-proofing cities: Not something conservatives are going to be good at
2013-01-09 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The notion of preparing cities for climate disruption is somewhat novel, though of course cities have always been built to adapt to natural conditions. What`s new is that almost all cities must now plan for changes in the natural conditions they take for granted - changes likely to be substantial but which, in their specifics, are maddeningly difficult to predict with precision or confidence. Though it`s just beginning to catch on in the U.S., urban climate adaptation has been around for longer...