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Reporter Greg Palast in a guard tower looking out on Joe Arpaio’s jail in Maricopa County, Arizona. (Photo: Greg Palast) Written by Greg Palast for Truthout Phoenix – Don’t be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, signed last week, requiring every person in the state to carry papers proving they are US citizens. I don’t buy it. Anti-Hispanic hysteria has always been as much a part of Arizona as the saguaro cactus and excessive air-conditioning. What’s new here is not the politicians’ fear of a xenophobic “Teabag” uprising. What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote – and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one. Unless this demographic locomotive is halted, Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast. Or, if you like, tortillas.
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian For months now there has been an unusual alliance between the folks in metropolitan NY City and those in rural Upstate NY. Concerned about their own water supply, people and officials from NYC have joined in the fight against unsafe slick water fracking for fossil gas in the Marcellus Shale. Now Commissioner Pete Grannis seeks to break that alliance by offering separate more stringent rules for the NYC and Syracuse watersheds that in effect bans drilling in those watersheds. NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis announced that “due to the unique issues related to the protection of New York City and Syracuse drinking water supplies” applications to drill in those watersheds will require a case-by-case environmental review process to “establish whether appropriate measures to mitigate potential impacts can be developed”. That leaves the rest of us in grave danger.
Posted by Lucidity at Newsbiscuit.com The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil. “Homeopathic weapons represent a major threat to world peace,” said President Barack Obama, “they might not cause any actual damage but the placebo effect could be quite devastating.”
