Arctic oil spill is certain if drilling goes ahead, says top scientist. theguardian.com

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If You Drill, You Will Spill Say Scientists

Arctic oil spill is certain if drilling goes ahead, says top scientist

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Russia's push for exploration will devastate pristine Arctic, warns scientist behind BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill analysis

Without Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better Shape. thedailybeast.com

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Without Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better Shape

Without Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better Shape

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Healthcare plan enrollment surges in some states after rocky rollout. latimes.com

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Have we turned the corner?

Healthcare plan enrollment surges in some states after rocky rollout

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WASHINGTON — Despite the disastrous rollout of the federal government's healthcare website, enrollment is surging in many states as tens of thousands of consumers sign up for insurance plans made available by President Obama 's health law.

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Losses from extreme weather rise to $200 billion a year over past decade | Reuters

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Losses from ‪#‎extremeweather‬ climbed to $200 billion a year over past decade!

Losses from extreme weather rise to $200 billion a year over past decade | Reuters

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report

'Devastation is just unbelievable' from historic tornadoes. Chicago Tribune

'Devastation is just unbelievable' from historic tornadoes

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Recovery begins after US storms kill eight in MidwestReuters

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GOP blocks another Obama judicial nominee. USA TODAY

GOP blocks another Obama judicial nominee

USA TODAY

pic. The Story Behind This Powerful Photo Of A Police Officer And A Student Protester. buzzfeed.com

The Story Behind This Powerful Photo Of A Police Officer And A Student Protester

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"You just hold on girl."

Scientists Sign Declaration That Animals Have Conscious Awareness; Just Like Humans - altering-perspectives.com

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Scientists Sign Declaration That Animals Have Conscious Awareness; Just Like Humans -

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An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are

UN Climate Chief: Leave Coal In The Ground. huffingtonpost.com

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UN Climate Chief: Leave Coal In The Ground

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.N.'s chief climate diplomat on Monday urged the coal industry to diversify toward cleaner energy sources and leave most of the world's remaining coal reserves in the ground. On the sidelines of a U.N. climate conference, Christiana Figueres told dozens of CEOs of coal com...

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pic. "If all insects disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish." Jonas Salk

***** STOP. READ THIS. Israel's policy of erasure. Los Angeles Times

Israel's policy of erasure
 Los Angeles Times

pic. "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

America's new normal, UNLESS YOU STAND. Caught in Unemployment’s Revolving Door. www.nytimes.com

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Caught in Unemployment’s Revolving Door

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Some economists fear that the long-term unemployment crisis affecting millions of Americans might be a permanent change, with far-reaching and damaging consequences.

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nd. I just tried Healthcare.gov for a healthcare plan - DC - and it worked fine, cept I had a personal difficulty to me. You tried yours?

nd. I just tried Healthcare.gov for a healthcare plan - DC - and it worked fine, cept I had a personal difficulty to me. You tried yours?

***** New study finds that individuals with Asperger's Syndrome don’t lack empathy - in fact if... seventhvoice.wordpress.com. [This is sooooooooo me.]

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New study finds that individuals with Asperger's Syndrome don’t lack empathy - in fact if...

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“A ground-breaking study suggests people with autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger's do not lack empathy – rather, they feel others' emotions too intensely to cope.” “People with Asperger's s...

NYT: Life without parole for siphoning gas from a truck.

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If this were happening in any other country, Americans would be aghast. A sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for trying to sell $10 of marijuana to an undercover officer? For sharing LSD at a Grateful Dead concert? For siphoning gas from a truck? The punishment is so extreme, so irrational, so wildly disproportionate to the crime that it defies explanation.

Sentenced to a Slow Death

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A report highlights thousands of prisoners serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes.

Australia, Canada block Commonwealth climate fund. www.theaustralian.com.au

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CLIMATE CHANGE - Australia and Canada block Commonwealth climate fund

Australia, Canada block Commonwealth climate fund

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TONY Abbott has opposed plans by Commonwealth leaders to set up a climate change fund for impoverished member states to help them tackle the effects

***** Is the world finally ready to do something about climate change? Salon

Is the world finally ready to do something about climate change?

Salon

Cowardice, Allowing Evil - what Gandhi saw as The Cardinal Sin. Non-violence better translates as non-Evil... non-Spectating.

Cowardice, Allowing Evil - what Gandhi saw as
The Cardinal Sin. 

Non-violence better
translates as
non-Evil... non-Spectating.

Pope Francis: “Many people make human sacrifices and there are laws that ... Patheos

Pope Francis: “Many people make human sacrifices and there are laws that ...

Patheos

Pope Francis honors gay teen who developed breakthrough cancer test. Salon

Pope Francis honors gay teen who developed breakthrough cancer test

Salon

Syria's Silent, Chilling Epidemic of Journalist Kidnappings. The Atlantic

Syria's Silent, Chilling Epidemic of Journalist Kidnappings

The Atlantic

US quest for 5X battery boost seeks 'game-changing' tech. Computerworld

US quest for 5X battery boost seeks 'game-changing' tech

Computerworld

Anti-Christ Persecution. No forgiving. Un-Loving. Violence: Minnesota man, 94, may face murder charges over Nazi-era war crime allegations Toronto Sta

Minnesota man, 94, may face murder charges over Nazi-era war crime allegations

Toronto Sta

A turning point for offshore-wind energy? Al Jazeera America

A turning point for offshore-wind energy?

Al Jazeera America

Solar-panel sunglasses recharge your iPhone in the evening. CNET

Solar-panel sunglasses recharge your iPhone in the evening

CNET

Solar Carports USA wants to aesthetically please. The Desert Sun

Solar Carports USA wants to aesthetically please

The Desert Sun

SolarCity Leads Way Into Low-Interest Solar Financing That Could Be Huge ... CleanTechnica

SolarCity Leads Way Into Low-Interest Solar Financing That Could Be Huge ...

CleanTechnica

New Research Delivers the Blue Light Special of Solar Power. Motherboard

New Research Delivers the Blue Light Special of Solar Power

Motherboard

Supreme Court rejects privacy group's call to look at NSA's collection of ... Washington Post

Supreme Court rejects privacy group's call to look at NSA's collection of ...

Washington Post