Nazi Israel, Police State: British student deported from Israel because his social media posts 'posed a security threat'

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/British-student-deported-from-Israel-because-his-social-media-posts-posed-a-security-threat-337805

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion. addictinginfo.org

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion

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21 GOP governors have refused Medicaid expansion, causing rural hospitals to close. This is costing people their lives, and citizens are now fighting back.

About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-

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About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-expansion_n_4520263.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

5 Million People To Miss Out On Health Insurance Because Of Their Governors

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in

pic. "Secretary Gates much preferred President Bush, who '... had no second thoughts about Iraq, including our decions to invade."

Teabonics added a new photo.

Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rejects Global Warming. DeSmogBlog: http://bit.ly/KOYHRG

I Heart Climate Scientists

Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility:

Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rejects Global Warming

DeSmogBlog: http://bit.ly/KOYHRG

Rapid loss of top predators 'a major environmental threat.' The Guardian

Rapid loss of top predators 'a major environmental threat'

The Guardian

Teachers Now Being Offered Bank Loans To Help Pay For School Supplies - Liberal Planet. liberalplanet.com

Liberal Planet

Teachers Now Being Offered Bank Loans To Help Pay For School Supplies - Liberal Planet

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Liberal news and opinion from the Liberal Planet network of progressive websites, groups and news sources that provide thought provoking content for the liberal community.

pic. If you actively work to protect a fetus, but not a child, you are NOT 'pro life.'

Americans Against The Republican Party

Nope, not at all.

From The Boomers Voting Democratic via Being Liberal.

A Little Girls Potato Experiment Will Change The Way You Think About Food! spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com

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A Little Girls Potato Experiment Will Change The Way You Think About Food!

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A little girl decided to do an experiment with a sweet potato, and her results will change the way you think about the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store.

telegraph.co.uk. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $6 trillion - Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk

The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

vid clip. In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

Lauran Carter

This is amazing

See That Box? That’s Where They Put the Babies. And It’s the Most Remarkable Thing You’ll See...

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In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

Watch this, thru tears: "I want less suffering in the world... by everything." Simpsons co-creator dying of cancer. ‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis. ca.omg.yahoo.com

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Watch this, thru tears: "I want less suffering in the world... by everything." Simpsons co-creator dying of cancer.

‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

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Watch the video ‘The Simpsons’ Co-Creator Sam Simon Donating Fortune After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis on Yahoo Celebrity. Legendary TV director was behind mega-hits like “Cheers,” “Taxi,” and “The Simpsons” but now, after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, he’s dedicating most of his fortune to a...

article. NY Times says Snowden IS a Whistleblower and should be pardoned. FBI Director says he is not. SOMEONE HERE IS VERY OUT OF STEP WITH THE INTERESTS OF DEMOCRACY. I wonder who.

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NY Times says Snowden IS a Whistleblower and should be pardoned. FBI Director says he is not. SOMEONE HERE IS VERY OUT OF STEP WITH THE INTERESTS OF DEMOCRACY. I wonder who.

FBI director: Snowden not a 'hero whistle-blower'

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FBI Director James Comey says he's confused when he hears people referring to former national security contractor Edward Snowden as a

100,000 Bats Fall from the Sky in Australia Due to Extreme Heat Wave. alternet.org

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100,000 Bats Fall from the Sky in Australia Due to Extreme Heat Wave

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Amid Shocking Changes in Continental Weather Patterns, Australia's Heatwave Leaves Its Mark

Texas man selling restaurant to save uninsured employee suffering from a brain tumor | The Raw Story rawstory.com

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(M) This is pretty incredible. The world needs more people like this.

http://bit.ly/SellingRestaurant

Texas man selling restaurant to save uninsured employee suffering from a brain tumor | The Raw Story

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A Texas business owner has put his restaurant up for sale with the hopes of saving a young employee who has a brain tumor and no insurance.

pic. I know personally, an internationally renown activist. She is constantly working to use her life, her body, her very being... to save humanity. Seems there is no personal price she wouldn’t pay. She doesn't play to play. She plays to win. I don’t know any others besides her, Malala, Aung San... This is why the future is doomed, unless you join her. Now. (She is shy. I’ll not name and embarrass her.)

I know personally, an
internationally renown activist.

She is constantly working to use her life, her body, her very being... to save humanity. Seems there is no personal price she wouldn’t pay.  She doesn't play to play. She plays to win.

I don’t know any others besides her, Malala, Aung San...

This is why the future is doomed, unless you join her.  Now.

(She is shy. I’ll not name and embarrass her.)

pic. In the last 30 years 75% of arctic sea ice has disappeared. Greenpeace

An Inconvenient Truth

Time to tend to the planet.

The false safety promise of Keystone XL. salon.com

The false safety promise of Keystone XL

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The recent spate of train derailments is concerning, but it's no reason to support a pipeline

Pope Francis: Love is concrete. en.radiovaticana.va

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

Greedy for oil money, Canada is turning into a rogue petrostate. grist.org

David Whittall shared a link.

Blame Canada: Greedy for oil money, the country is turning into a rogue petrostate

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An unforgiving article in Foreign Policy magazine describes Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reckless pursuit of oil-sands wealth.

pic. $178B would eliminate US poverty. $700B US War spending.

David Whittall shared War Costs's photo.

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty, but who's winning this war? "If only the War on Poverty was an actual war. Then we would actually be putting money into it." ‪#‎WarCosts‬ http://bit.ly/1byVOtQ

Officials Say Christie Bridge Scandal Hampered Emergency Responders. TIME

Officials Say Christie Bridge Scandal Hampered Emergency RespondersTIME

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war. Salon

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war

Salon

Guarani suicides - how mankind's divorce from nature impacts on the psyche. survivalinternational.org

Guarani suicides - how mankind's divorce from nature impacts on the psyche

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'We Indians are like plants,' said the late Marta Guarani. 'How can we live without our land, without our soil?'

China positioning to destroy rest of world in wind power market. BBC

China on world's 'biggest push' for wind power

BBC News

Gulf Coast Wetlands Rapidly Declining. blog.nwf.org

Restore the Mississippi River Delta

A new report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds that the wetlands of the Gulf Coast are in rapid decline, and the area disappearing the fastest are the acres around the Mississippi River Delta. Find out more about why this is happening and what we can do here: http://blog.nwf.org/2014/01/gulf-coast-wetlands-rapidly-declining/

Gulf Coast Wetlands Rapidly Declining

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The Gulf of Mexico is losing more wetlands than anywhere else in the United States and it is losing them more rapidly than ever before, according to a new federal report that assessed the status of wetlands in the United States. The Significance...

Another Crude Oil Train Exploded In Canada, And It's Still Burning. ibtimes.com

Bold Nebraska

Canadian National Railway Co. train carrying crude oil and propane exploded near the city of Plaster Rock in New Brunswick, Canada — about 20 miles from the Maine border at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

50-60 residents from 45 nearby houses have been evacuated.

POLITICO reports that "North Dakota's congressional delegation will meet Thursday with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration chief Cynthia Quarterman to talk rail car safety standards."

Another Crude Oil Train Exploded In Canada, And It's Still Burning

ibtimes.com

A fire burned all night after a train carrying propane and crude oil derailed in New Brunswick on Tuesday, experts are now worried about the possibility of more explosions.

Climate Change Could Cause Deepwater Die-Off. Scientific American

Climate Change Could Cause Deepwater Die-Off

Scientific American

Dangerous Weed Killers Are Helping To Spread “Superweeds.” justlabelit.org

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Dangerous Weed Killers Are Helping To Spread “Superweeds”

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By Violet Batcha (Just Label It) Proposals to expand the use of the dangerous weed killer 2,4-D should serve as a reminder that our heavy reliance on GE corn and soybeans – and the herbicides

article. If you are not terrified of this, you are part of the problem. Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year. politico.com

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers

we CANNOT let up for ONE MINUTE, GOP Stoppers! - james

Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year

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For the last decade, Larry J. Sabato has been forecasting elections and analyzing the results—correctly predicting 98 percent of Senate, House and governor winners in, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Starting with this column,