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At the Oriental Shrine Club in Greensboro last week McCrory told the audience:

“We will create jobs as a government by getting into the energy-exploration business, both offshore and underground.”

Randy Voller, recently re-elected mayor of Pittsboro, Chair of the Chatham County Democratic Party, and the force behind Chatham County's electoral U-turn earlier this month, will lead the workshop on how to grow a new generation of elected officials who will represent the 99% by recruiting, supporting, and electing progressive candidates beginning at the local level.

Progressive Democrats of North Carolina

2011 Annual Meeting

Saturday, December 3, 2011

9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Orange County Campus (OOC)

Room 201

Durham Technical Community College
525 College Park Road

Hillsborough, NC 27278

919-536-7238

This crossed my radar this morning and haven't seen notice of it elsewhere on BlueNC so,

GASTONIA Jim Forrester, the Gaston County lawmaker who pushed hard to ban gay marriage for a good part of his 11 terms in the N.C. Senate, died Monday at age 74.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/01/2739307/nc-sen-jim-forrester...

WE are the 99%! "Human needs, NOT Corporate GREED!"

In solidarity with Occupy Wall St, and part of the Occupy Together movement

Haven't seen one of these for a while. Did they go out of style?

I just feel chatty tonight.

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone was just on Keith Olbermann's Countdown where he called out Sen. Kay Hagan for wanting to give the big corporations who shelter money offshore a big tax break if they bring their funds home.

A federal appeals court has ruled against Alcoa in its bid to speed the process of granting a federal license to operate four dams along the Yadkin River in Stanly County.

Alcoa's bid to continue operating the dams, which it built along the river to provide energy for a now-closed smelting plant near Badin, is opposed by state officials and by environmental groups. Gov. Bev Perdue's administration has said it could attract new jobs if it were to operate the dams, which are along a 38-mile stretch of the Yadkin River.

I guess the answer "No." won't be heard until they get tired of paying lawyers. Honestly, my google alert for news: Yadkin Alcoa has had no hits for months. The rusty wheels of justice turn very slowly.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/04/2271765/court-rules-against-...

To the detriment of North Carolina’s public and environmental health, the population of hogs in North Carolina has surpassed people in the past 20 years. Yet, we utilize one of the least advanced models of industrial pork production in the country. The 40 million gallons of waste produced daily by North Carolina’s hogs seeps into the groundwater through unlined manure lagoons that can be 6 acres in size and is sprayed in massive quantities onto nearby fields—within 75 feet of schools and homes.

I just heard and confirmed with Jeremy Scahill's story today, that Prince, owner of infamous Blackwater, Xe, mercenariesRus wants to escape to the United Arab Emirates where there are no extradition treaties with the US. The big question is why would he let that info leak?