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		<title>Why The XL Pipeline Will Not Lower Gas Prices</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/15/why-the-xl-pipeline-will-not-lower-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canada produces about 2.8 million barrels of crude oil per day, much more than it needs.  Most of that comes from the country’s western provinces –primarily Alberta.  But Canada’s industrial and population centers are primarily in the eastern part of the country. Canada’s eastern provinces are right now importing European oil.  It would seem logical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we don&#8217;t need the XL Pipeline</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/04/why-we-dont-need-the-xl-pipeline/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/03/04/why-we-dont-need-the-xl-pipeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed XL Pipeline is a pipeline that would bring Canadian tarsands oil across the Midwest and into Texas.  In a previous post I pointed out some of the environmental harm that comes from the tarsands operation itself &#8211; in other words, the local harm that is being done in Alberta, Canada by the mining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporations want the rights of people, but the responsibilities of nobody.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/25/corporations-want-the-rights-of-people-but-the-responsibilities-of-nobody/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/25/corporations-want-the-rights-of-people-but-the-responsibilities-of-nobody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BEAT has been arguing that the biggest environmental problem we face is corporate influence in government.  It&#8217;s the one issue that makes all other issues intractable.  A recent  Supreme Court decision that ruled in part that corporations are people has made the situation much worse.  But now, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tar Sands, The Pipeline, And Climate</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/20/alberta-tar-sands/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/02/20/alberta-tar-sands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion about the Alberta tar sands project and about the proposed XL Pipeline that would carry oil from that project to Texas.  My wife Jane and I were concerned enough to travel to Washington D.C. to participate in two demonstrations aimed at stopping this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Influence In Government: An Environmental Issue (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/01/18/corporate-influence-in-government-an-environmental-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2012/01/18/corporate-influence-in-government-an-environmental-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE/PCBs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past fall, the Occupy Wall Street group made a lot of headlines pointing out that one percent of this country&#8217;s population controls a very disproportionate share of the wealth.  Tied in to this is the fact that recent federal court rulings have taken almost all restraints off corporations who want to make contributions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Of The Problem (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/23/the-core-of-the-problem-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/23/the-core-of-the-problem-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog, I pointed out that the wages of the average worker in this country have been dropping precipitously since 1980 despite increased worker productivity, that corporate profits have been soaring, and that CEOs are keeping these record profits for themselves with little to no sign of any “trickle down” to workers. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Of The Problem</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/20/the-core-of-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/20/the-core-of-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has never been easy advocating for the environment, but these days it’s especially difficult for BEAT. It seems that every regulation protecting the environment is under attack. Every attempt to clean up environmental pollution is met with resistance. Protecting rare and endangered species annoys the real-estate industry and the lobbies representing developers. Trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama-Immelt Administration Flexes Its Muscle</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/12/the-obama-immelt-administration-flexes-its-muscle/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/12/the-obama-immelt-administration-flexes-its-muscle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE/PCBs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GE has announced that it is transferring its 115-year-old X-Ray manufacturing operations from Wisconsin to China.  It has also announced that it will invest two billion dollars in China, open 6 new research centers there, and train 65 new Chinese engineers.  This is the same mega-corporation that last year payed exactly no U.S. corporate income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEAT Partners To Get Drugs Off The Streets And Out Of Our Wetlands.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/02/beat-partners-to-get-drugs-off-the-streets-and-out-of-our-wetlands/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/10/02/beat-partners-to-get-drugs-off-the-streets-and-out-of-our-wetlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=1779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals on the whole are a wonderful thing.  So many diseases and disorders that plagued earlier generations can be prevented or made less harmful and less uncomfortable by products of the drug industry.  This is because pharmaceuticals are designed to change our physiology.  They are designed to make changes to the way our bodies work.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whale says &#8220;Thank You!&#8221; to rescuers.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/18/whale-says-thank-you-to-rescuers/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/08/18/whale-says-thank-you-to-rescuers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video on YouTube.  Please watch it to the end.  What a testimony to the value of helping wildlife!]]></description>
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