overturn any regulation. Or bankrupt the entity that passed the law or regulation. Sweet, huh?

cases, oil and gas mega giants, are doing fine bankrupting the entity that passed the law or regulation without an international trade treaty.

TPP no where around. Surely it is a workers and little folk paradise in America now?

Folks seem not to care to know the facts anymore before joining one armed camp or another with passionate hate for the other armed camp.

There can only be two.

In my armed camp folks realize Bernie Sanders is a hard left socialist. Is America ready for a hard left socialist or will they vote in President Mussolini the Second.....that may be the choice?

FYI,

Instead of the state having to enforce a corporate complaint, through an artificial trade tribunal, the corporstions sue directly in the resident state?

Unfairness can be dealt with by sanctions and publicity, etc.

Local self -governance is already long gone in a lot of places in America due to local corporate greed, but that is through political takeover, not corporate civil suits.

Is that what adhering to traditional Democratic principles is called now?

Hard left socialist?
Bernie Sanders?

WTF???

See what we have become...

and giving no facts or evidence should be banned I think. That style is used by some forums on this board. You should take debate lessons then come back with some actual facts and ideas that you can footnote.

I was born in Fort Collins and have family in Loveland which Longmont is just south of. First of all, I'm surprised city officials even want a fracking ban considering the area is heavily GOP.

...or causes cancer after short periods of contact with it.

I'd love to force some of the oil execs to drink a cup of that stuff every morning, and THEN tell everyone fracking is safe.

stations that routinely sell fracking as environmentally safe and great for the economy.

rw radio blowhards regularly attack them as commies and dupes, and will give the industry think tank shills regular friendly space on their talk shows to do the same.

that's what those stations have been doing for years across the country- selling and protecting fracking and any other environmental stupidity that industry wants unregulated.

and the commercial they constantly run. "jason's grandfather started this ranch. so we try to protect what's ours. Some people wonder why we let fracking on our land, but we talked to experts, and you know what? It's safe."

every time i watch rachel i am treated to this propaganda. this bullshit.

well, i was - finally put in an ad blocker yesterday so hopefully no more

The woman leads you to believe that their family livelihood depends on the "ranch", and nothing could be farther from the truth. It's a couple of acres, and the "experts" they spoke with are essentially her employers, seeing as how she's a longtime highly paid lobbyist for the industry. Understandable that they buy the ad time on Maddow's show, they need to start "de-convincing" viewers who are starting to understand the realities.

The bottomest bottom line for the oil companies: There's no profit in giving a damn about your fellow human beings.

I was so shocked to see it there.

it is republicon radio.

even though it may end up as a judge's ruling, national and local rw radio has been loving fracking and attacking its critics for years. any attempt to limit it will come up against those think tank scripted blowhards and their think tank guests talking about perfectly potable fracking water and all the millions of jobs and economic booming that results from it. the industry's friends in high places wouldn't be so anti public if it wasn't for all that bullshit and the manufactured constituency among the talk radio/teabagger base at their backs.

which environmental groups continue to ignore

If you know the facts....

Corporations fighting the will of citizens. Is there any doubt who will win in the courts? Will people finally wake up and see what's happening here?
Oh wait, I think Kim Kardashian is pregnant and there's that pretty lady in the commercial telling us how an attack on fracking is an attack on small organic farmers who just need some extra money to send their kids to college. Oh, you mean she's a corporate stooge? but she's so pretty and sincere and grows organic veggies.

Oil and gas is spending millions in Colorado to promote fracking and why? They have all the laws, money and power behind them. They just want to look pretty when they start locking up citizens who interfere with "America's business."

That is not how democracy works!

You need the deepest pockets and the best interests of those pockets in mind.

And Ohio folks, what's the big deal? The playground looks totally fine. I'm sure that the company folk play there on their breaks all the time. Everything is fine!

Carry on.

"Enemy of the People"

How little has changed--only the cast's names

at the hostile reception to an earlier, controversial play (Ghosts).

Ultimately, in the Enemy of the People, it wasn't the corporations winning - it was the fickleness, and easily propagandized public getting whipped up in order to act against their own (health) best interest.

Hmmm. 2014 elections... Faux... You are right - how little has changed.

But his premise that a majority of people can be fooled into accepting and supporting something that will ultimately damage them was no less valid for all that.

A local news paper looked at the facts behind the the add where some one claims to be an organic farmer that depends on the mineral income that she gets. Well it turns out She has been involved in the oil industry for many years and it is her primary job. The farming she does is mostly a hobby. The thing that takes the cake is she does not even live in the same county as where she has her mineral rights. This means she does not even have to tolerate the local impact caused by the fracking.

http://npaper-wehaa.com/boulder-weekly/#2014/12/11/s1/?article=2401274

That's what the oil companies told residents of Weld County Colorado over twenty years ago. Small towns and communities can go bankrupt on legal fees while fighting corporations for which such expenses are a mere drop in the barrel.

Weld County, now home to over 21K wells, presently boasts commissioners, all GOP, who are thoroughly gaga over all the oil money; they are also snidely dismissive of increasing health concerns. Similar attitudes prevail in Greeley, the county seat; during his re-election campaign the mayor was treated to a fundraising party in the offices of a drilling company, and his campaign signs were planted on well sites. The city now has several hundred wells within city limits.

Not be a cause to spend taxpayers' money defending what voters want.

I didn't know about Weld Co CO. Over 21000 wells. Heartbreaking. Thanks for the window to that part of our country though.

for 40 years where so many towns and people have worked long and hard to raise awareness about the dangers of fracking. We cannot help but be discouraged that oil and gas "own" the businesses, media and most of our elected representatives, and with their big bucks seem to win every battle in the courts and in the legislatures.

My granddaughter lives in Denton TX. There, too, the good people have worked for years and finally Denton was the first town to vote to ban fracking. But immediately after the win Texas big oil and the state regulators started lawsuits.

In Colorado we always think we are not so corrupt or conservative as Texas but there's very little difference when it comes to money and greed.

It's a tactic that companies use to bankrupt municipalities. Monsanto has protection enacted by Congress against law suits.

Messing with a place as pristine (formerly, anyway) as Kaua'i is the very definition of obscenity.

all the law said was
1. They had to disclose WHAT they were spraying;
2. They had to give 48 hr notice when they were going to spray
3. They could not spray within 100 yrs of houses, schools, - essentially people.

There is a case in state court on Maui that IS going forward. Monsanto is trying to get it booted up to Federal Court where they have preemption (protection from Congress that Monsanto can't be sued).

Europe, India, Mexico and Countries in South American have prohibited GMO growing. Hawaii is ground zero b/c there is nothing near it for 2000 miles.

Here's a link (that hopefully works) as to what they are doing on Kauai. It's obscene and criminal....

http://times.org/2014/06/16/kauai-cocktail/

They change the "don't" for "please."