***** Top 10 CNN Heroes

Rivers' garbageman named CNN Hero of the Year

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Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Outstrip Climate Aid Fivefold. Bloomberg

Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Outstrip Climate Aid Fivefold

Bloomberg

Easy solution to dramatically reduce deaths: Wind Turbines Kill More Than 600000 Bats A Year. What Should We Do? Popular Science

Wind Turbines Kill More Than 600000 Bats A Year. What Should We Do?

Popular Science

Senate puts off Iran sanctions vote as nuclear talks start. UPI.com

Senate puts off Iran sanctions vote as nuclear talks start

UPI.com

Iranian concession and Cameron phone call raise nuclear deal hopes. The Guardian

Iranian concession and Cameron phone call raise nuclear deal hopes

The Guardian

More bad global warming news: Acidification harming sea urchins. NBCNews.com

More bad global warming news: Acidification harming sea urchins

NBCNews.com

Despite Low Ratings, Obama Remains A Democratic Money Magnet. NPR

Despite Low Ratings, Obama Remains A Democratic Money Magnet

NPR

Supreme Court allows Texas to keep enforcing abortion restrictions. CBS News

Supreme Court allows Texas to keep enforcing abortion restrictions

CBS News

Midwest Reels From Freak November Tornadoes. takepart.com

An Inconvenient Truth

In case you're not from tornado country, you should know that tornadoes in November are NOT normal.

Midwest Reels From Freak November Tornadoes

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A first hand look at the twisters that flattened entire towns.

Elon Musk: "3 fires, with no serious injuries, received more headlines than 250,000+ gasoline fires." treehugger.com

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US - The way electric cars are being treated in the media lately, especially the Wall Street financial papers, is unfair and not fact-based. 3 fires with no injuries got more coverage than 250,000 gasoline fires that caused 100s of deaths and 1000s of injuries

Elon Musk: "3 fires, with no serious injuries, received more headlines than 250,000+ gasoline fires"

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"A gasoline tank has 10 times more combustion energy than our battery."

Global Carbon Emissions Rise to New Record in 2013: Scientific American

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Global carbon emissions are set to reach record levels this year, with coal as the biggest contributor. We simply can't wait any longer to transition off coal for good! http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-carbon-emissions-rise-to-new

Global Carbon Emissions Rise to New Record in 2013: Scientific American

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Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

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Cancer Update: A depressing day

Daily Kos: Walmart could pay workers $14.89 an hour without raising prices. dailykos.com

Pro Labor Alliance Inc.

Without cutting into its profit or raising prices....

Daily Kos: Walmart could pay workers $14.89 an hour without raising prices

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Walmart can easily afford to raise pay for its low-wage workers by $5.83 an hour, to an average wage of $14.89, a new report from progressive think tank Demos concludes. All the retail giant has ...

Police: Son likely stabbed Va. state Sen. Creigh Deeds, shot himself. Washington Post

Police: Son likely stabbed Va. state Sen. Creigh Deeds, shot himself

Washington Post

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

I Heart Climate Scientists

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

The Christian Left

Without Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better Shape

Without Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better Shape

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Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/APfacebooktweetpostPoliticsWithout Massive Republican Opposition, Obamacare Would be in Better ShapeBy Jamelle BouieNovember 18th 201312:10 pmfollowMore Stories by Jamelle BouieBe

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

Now With Alex Wagner

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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Denial is WAY TOO expensive:

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

Chicago Tribune

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Recovery begins after US storms kill eight in MidwestReuters

Midwest Assesses Tornado Aftermathwgowam

Wikipedia:November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak

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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.

The Christian Left

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

www.nytimes.com

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