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Feature Article #1

Goldman Sucks – a video ode to Goldman Sachs

This video montage is based upon Matt Taibbi’s, Inside The Great American Bubble Machine The other day I learned that GS owns the Mountain Pass rare earth mine in California. The video is right, GS is everywhere.

magix | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

Iraq war veteran Shannon Meehan runs for state legislature on Pennsylvania

This is an especially moving story for me. This young Army sargeant, Shannon Meehan, is suffering from severe PTSD and TBI and had a similar experience of taking the lives of Iraqi civilians, as my son did, is fighting through the fog to find some meaning in his life. His politics are unclear but I hope he makes it.

magix | March 5th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Olbermann – Rove rewrites history

Not a surprise that Karl Rove, ‘Bush’s brain’ would have a view of the lead-up to the Iraq war totally out of sync with proven facts.

magix | March 4th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

Maddow – Liz Cheney flips the scoop – her dad is ‘al Qaeda’

Liz Cheney through her ‘Keep America Safe’ political action committee has connected the dots from al Qaeda to her dad, Dick… No wonder Bush ignored the intelligence memo alerting him to the 9/11 attacks! This would be funny if it weren’t for the almost 5,000 Americans killed in Iraq and 30,000 plus wounded

magix | March 4th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Colbert – Greece’s economic downfall – Sheherezade Rehman

“Scheherazade Rehman discusses the likelihood of Greece receiving a bailout from the European Union” Arguments are strong that Goldman Sachs contributed to the fall of Greece in order to make a buck

magix | March 4th, 2010 | Continued

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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace [...]

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Plundertown USA, a history of resource extraction in Coos Bay

March 18th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Sadly, the details outlined in Al Sandine’s 2003 book Plundertown, USA: Coos Bay Enters the Global Economy wherein Weyerhauser and GP logged old growth at a rate that exceeded regrowth rates and then abandoned the area to repeat the process in Indonesia and Brazil, is about to be replayed. This time the resource is chromite [...]

Coos Bay bans wind pending writing an ordinance

March 17th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The vote was unanimous! Coos County holds the equivalent energy potential of billions of barrels of oil under the ground in wind resource. So local leadership pulls some general information off the ODOE website, calls a few other cities for ‘due diligence’ and without speaking to industry experts says no to wind. They [...]

City of Coos Bay considering a ban on wind energy within city limits?!?!

March 16th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Apparently, without any public discussion, the City of Coos Bay plans to vote on a resolution banning the use of wind power conversion systems within city limits tonight.

The analysis and resolution are hereCoos Bay Wind Resolution. The analysis is not what you would call very analytical and is comprised primarily of general guidelines from [...]

MGx is moving to a new host so pardon any disruption

March 14th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

With luck the migration will be seamless and no one will even notice except that pages should load faster and I will be able to provide streaming video and audio when the need arises.

Strip mining coming to Coos County? UPDATED

March 13th, 2010 • magix • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

The gang at SCDC (South Coast Development Council) are hot to aid and abet Oregon Resources Corp to begin strip mining for chromite and other minerals (supposedly no gold or platinum, they will put that back???).

Americans fear debt to China more than terrorism

March 10th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

A new Zogby poll indicates Americans are wisely beginning to question the manner in which we have financed the war against terrorism. Meanwhile China engages in female infanticide.

My first grandchild

March 7th, 2010 • magix • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Little Trinity Fett joined us about 5:30 today but her first two hours were a bit rough. A great team of nurses at McKenzie Willamette Hospital worked to help the baby, stunned after a tough birth to keep her oxygenated until she could breathe on her own.
Great staff and we now have a beautiful baby [...]

Proposed Legislation to Limit ITC Grants for Renewable Projects

March 5th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

AWEA (American Wind Energy Association) is in a snit over proposed legislation that would mandate federal tax credits be denied if a project doesn’t include products made in America.
The truth is, by law, Recovery Act grants can only be used to finance projects that are being built in the United States.
What AWEA ignores is the [...]

The Daily Show – Anchor management

March 4th, 2010 • magix • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Poking more fun at Faux News and its fair and balanced meme. “Megyn Kelly presents a balanced picture of the health care summit by randomly selecting four people who all think the bill is a terrible idea.”

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