Bill Oddie, the naturalist, protests against HSBC's illegal logging by entering the den of a creature closely related to humans: the banker. HSBC bankrolls some of the world's most destructive logging companies also risking international laundering rules.
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]]> … gravity of the allegations against the Obama IRS …scrutiny is certainly warranted… most of the lawmakers … had little … to say about equally troubling revelations about the Bush administration’s deployment of public resources against its opponents.
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]]> We will not accept "interim" storage of high-level radioactive waste; we will not accept our roads and railways burdened with thousands of casks of lethal nuclear waste moving to a "temporary" unsuitable location for the convenience of the .. industry
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]]> June 1st will mark the beginning of Bradley Manning’s fourth year in prison and the start of his trial. The June 1st Ft. Meade protest for Bradley Manning will be the largest action of our campaign!
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]]> By us accepting the fact that we are only part of a Nation and not of the Human Group as a Whole, we tacitly agree to be either well supported like some first world countries in the European Union or be absolutely disenfranchised from our living rights
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]]> BP can make more money faster sticking to oil and gas, says Edward Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston. “It’s a strategic decision. Renewables are not their core business.”
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]]> ...a little coverage of the Republican hate Obama and celebrate the murders festival. What I have seen is more ugly than that description.

From TC who is in the hospital where he needs to be for now. Click through to his web site.
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]]> Stephen Harper's Conservatives have launched a review of Canadian history seemingly aimed at placing greater emphasis on the nation's involvement in armed conflicts.
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]]> The latest revelation about the Holocaust stuns even the scholars who thought they already knew everything about the horrific details of Germany’s program of genocide against the Jewish people.

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]]> At this point the economic case for austerity — for slashing government spending even in the face of a weak economy — has collapsed. Claims that spending cuts would actually boost employment by promoting confidence have fallen apart.
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]]> Opposition parties accused Stephen Harper’s government of spying on its own MPs and being poor money managers … revealed Conservatives had spent $23 million on media monitoring in two years — including millions to track their own backbench MPs.
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]]> Only 44 Canadians have been convicted of offences related to offshore tax havens since the Harper government came to power — a period during which the amount of Canadian money held in the largest offshore havens is estimated to have doubled.
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]]> This from TomCat. I encourage you to go to www.PoliticsPlus.org to stay current with TC and leave 'get well' messages for him.
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]]> Alvin Cote wasn't a well-known politician, businessman or hockey player, but a ragged, homeless alcoholic whose tough talk would easily melt into a hearty chuckle and a big smile short on teeth.
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]]> A deep divide has emerged within the Republican Party over whether to waste Congress’s time investigating Benghazi talking points or repealing Obamacare, G.O.P. lawmakers confirmed today.
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]]> This from TomCat. I encourage you to go to www.PoliticsPlus.org to stay current with TC and leave 'get well' messages for him. A # of people have and his reaction "WOW!" You have cheered him up. Hope more will sign in. It's easy.
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]]> Two more offerings from Tom Cat. With any luck, our big pussy cat should be home from hospital on Thursday afternoon, but don't expect too much for at least a few days. We'll have to wait until he is ready. Enjoy!
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]]> American baby boomers are taking their own lives like never before.
Is Wall Street's version of capitalism driving up our suicide rates?
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]]> Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and "stop the motor" by withdrawing themselves from the system of production. … [but]… rejected taxes are shutting down productive people.
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]]> It’s no surprise that more exercise enthusiasts are venturing outdoors, as a growing body of research is extolling the mental and physical benefits of alfresco activity.

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]]> From Tom Cat --- He is home! As he says "My activity here should increase gradually."
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]]> We learned last week that the epidemic of sexual assault in the military is more pervasive than we even knew, and we knew it was bad. In the last two years, sexual assaults are up 30%, to 26,000 instances. The news also broke that the officer in charge...
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]]> I suspect that Obama heartily approves of what the Justice Department did in the AP leak investigation. It's probably a fantasy to believe that either Holder or DOJ were off the reservation here.
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]]> Dear American People,

Yesterday, your hardworking House Republicans tried, once again, and failed, once again, to repeal Obamacare. And I really thought we had a good chance this time.
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]]> EPA is underestimating fracking’s impacts on climate change
Urge EPA: use the latest, best science when calculating methane’s impacts on global warming
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]]> The monk seal population of Hawaii's Kauai island once bordered on extinction. Thankfully, their population has started to recover, but they still number only about two hundred.
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]]> Sources report that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach amendments to the Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on GE foods.
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]]> Energy efficiency is one such area where the economic return on investment could be substantial, creating thousands of jobs and supporting new and existing businesses while saving people money that can be reinvested locally.
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]]> Remember the Academy Award-winning film Zero Dark Thirty? Well, last week news broke that the CIA edited the film’s script to make sure that it didn’t portray the “enhanced interrogation” program in a way that would make the agency look bad.


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]]> Alaska Representative Donald Young has introduced a bill to restart the fur trade of northern sea otters. Bill (H.R. 2714), seeks To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts,
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]]> The town of North Hempstead, on Long Island New York, has announced plans to kill hundreds of Canada geese and newly born goslings by shooting or gassing them to death and process the poisoned birds to a food bank. The town intends to spend $8,602.71
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]]> Ferias of Nimes festivals in France are held twice a year and last for 5 days. They center around bullfighting (the corrida) and are held in celebration of the bull and its fighting spirit.
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]]> Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie reveals that she's had a double mastectomy, in a written article, after discovering she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she'd get breast cancer.
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]]> America’s health care system is collapsing, and we can blame the Economics profession. Most economists approach health care in the wrong way, viewing it as a commodity
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]]> Millions of animals are being harmed and consumers misled by this failure to accurately label food products -- and this is a matter critical to public and animal health. Please contact the USDA and ask them to act today!


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]]> The tune, “Ashokan Farewell,” the bittersweet lament familiar to millions as the theme song that the filmmaker Ken Burns used for the emotional crescendos of his Civil War series. Jay Ungar’s moving hymn also helped save the Catskill Center. Listen to it!
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]]> In 1907, 6 different villages were built in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale, representing all the corners of the French colonial empire at the time– Madagascar, Indochine, Sudan, Congo, Tunisia and Morocco: to re-create life & culture as it was there.
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]]> Having lain untouched for seven decades the abandoned home was discovered three years ago after its owner died aged 91.
The woman who owned the flat... had fled for the south of France before the outbreak of the Second World War. She never returned.


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]]> Please join me in this fight by adding your name to this petition and asking Abercrombie and Fitch to embrace the beauty in all sizes by offering XL and XXL sizes for women and men!




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]]> There are way too many Republicans in office with appallingly anti-woman, anti-family records. Now more than ever, it is critical we gear up to fight back against the radical, anti-choice GOP. That's why we're asking you to stand behind us and take an
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]]> Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday signed a bill making gay marriage legal in Minnesota, the 12th state to take the step, as thousands of onlookers cheered.
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]]> The group...commissioned a group of artists to design Mother's Day cards featuring "low-income moms, young moms, immigrant moms, single moms, incarcerated moms, queer moms, and moms struggling with substance abuse," among others. BEAUTIFUL! MOVING!

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]]> Unjustly charged and convicted for the “crime” of providing her client with a fearless defense, the prosecution of Lynne Stewart is an assault upon the basic freedoms of us all. She should be released for URGENT Health Reasons, has advanced cancer.
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]]> Every Citizen of the World should educate themselves and realize that we have a responsibility to find solutions so that this repeating abuse that end in many deaths for profit can be stopped. The role of the USA in this abuse should be noted
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]]> With so much uncertainty about the future, we will rely more than ever on our Social Security benefits. That’s why now is the time to build upon the one retirement security system that we know we can count on.
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]]> On Friday, Rove's group American Crossroads released an ad attacking Clinton and accusing her of a national security "cover-up."Hillary Clinton falsely accused of a cover-up -- by Karl Rove? The Bush Administration's political fixer?
American Bridge put
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]]> The entire global population of wild, migratory whooping cranes migrates through the Alberta tar sands region twice annually. The endangered birds land in toxic waste water pits, mistaking them for freshwater ponds.
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]]> CALTRANS... violating the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty which forbids the killing of migratory birds. Sadly, the agencies tasked with enforcing this law have chosen to "look into it" instead of requiring the removal of the netting, killing nesting birds
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]]> New scientific evidence has led to an EU ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides (Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam) which are thought to be a major factor in the decade-long decline in global bee populations.
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]]> Right now, communities across the country are already fighting climate change and the fracking industry for clean air and clean water. And the stakes have gotten even higher the potential for more fracking so the natural gas industry can export
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