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#OccupyHemp: Don’t let the truth go up in smoke (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” --Carl Sagan Feb. 21, 2012 -- Upon receiving an invite to the NYC Cannabis March May 5, I found myself meditating upon this concept: If you...
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Corporate Power vs. Animal Rights: #DeOccupyAETA (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting ani...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governm...
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2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2012 -- There's a lot to be nervous about, even if you don't subscribe to the undercooked Mayan apocalypse lo...
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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (Anthony Gucciardi)
Sept. 20, 2011 (NaturalSociety) -- Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1,000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically m...
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The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)
Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of man*- Imagine, John Len...
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Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)
Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone aroundJapan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle ...
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Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)
Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) --The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the ar...
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Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) --Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and o...
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Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2011 June 25-July5 House of Representatives Independence Day recess. June 27 President Obama and Vice President Biden meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
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US Lawmakers to introduce bill to legalize marijuana (Luis Robayo)
June 22, 2011 (AFP) -- A group of U.S. representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday. The legis...
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Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)
WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) --The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I ...
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Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)
June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev...
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New Leak Feared at Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant (Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Nishikawa)
May 26, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) --Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said Thursday, in a ne...
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Get Real (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 23, 2011 -- Americans gathered around the hearth of CBS's60 Minutesmust have been bemused to hear reporter Scott Pelley announce self-importantly th...
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Fukushima Reactors Are a 'Ticking Time Bomb,' Japanese Govt in Denial (Michio Kaku)
Scientist Michio Kaku: When we hear "that things are stable, it’s only stable in the sense that you’re dangling from a cliff hanging by your fingernails." Apr. 13, 2011 (Democracy Now...
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Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums (Ethan A. Huff)
Apr. 11, 2011 (NaturalNews) -- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the United States are testing i...
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Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 12, 2011 (Information Clearing House) --Shares plunged across Europe and Asia Tuesday as the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deepened and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ra...
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Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk (Jeff McMahon)
Apr. 11, 2011 (Forbes) --Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk --in Montpelier, Vermont -- for the first t...
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Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to ni...
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Honeybees 'Entomb' Hives to Protect Against Pesticides, say Scientists (Fiona Harvey)
'Entombed' pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid 'normal', uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology By sealing up cells full of co...
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Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa)
4:02 p.m. EDT, Apr. 3, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan warned Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, whi...
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Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan's plant (Shinichi Saoshiro)
Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels...
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Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killi...
