Over 10 million senior households struggle to meet basic needs and may not be able to afford their rent or utilities. One out of every three seniors is living below or near the poverty line. Nearly 9 million older Americans are at risk of hunger.
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]]> Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Investigate Big Oil’s Influence on the Keystone XL Review.
Not only was the investigating firm part of the oil industry, but the state department tried to hide the connection.


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]]> Arguing that the American people are sick and tired of hearing the word “scandal,” a growing chorus of Republican lawmakers said they would stop using the word “scandal” in every sentence if President Obama resigns from office immediately.
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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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]]> 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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]]> … 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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]]> It’s 2013 and the world did not end by meteorite or by Mayan calendar. But fear not: we might just be able to get the job done ourselves. Join Robert Foster as he sets out to discover where Civilisation™ is making the fastest progress towards annihilation
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]]> Pennsylvania claims the pigeon shoots are necessary, because pigeons carry disease, yet they have children loading pigeon boxes before they are released and shot, and working with pigeons all day long. Children collect 1000's of dead and bloody
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]]> Please call your Representative in the U.S. Congress and ask that she or he remove the King Amendment from the Farm Bill. This amendment could negate most state and local farm animal protection laws, including those regarding factory farm confinement,
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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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]]> 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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]]> The research, published in the journal Nature, provides more evidence of a rapidly warming planet and has broad repercussions for fish harvests around the globe.
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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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]]> 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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]]> A new a study from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields
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]]> What would happen if 10,000 people decided to reduce their trash impact for one month? We could reduce the trash on Earth by over 1 million pounds.
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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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]]> Plastic is polluting our oceans. But Australia has the chance to do something about that with a recycling program that would help keep plastic out of the oceans. Please tell Australia's Environment Ministers that a recycling program is needed!
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]]> His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else. They’re wrong. Here’s why.
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]]> The idea of impeaching Obama is industrial-strength insane. Republicans will probably try anyway, predicts Michael Tomasky.
Never put the most extreme behavior past them. It is who they are, and it is what they do.
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]]> A First Nation from Alberta is hailing a court victory in its fight against expanded oil sands development near traditional territories and hunting grounds with the dismissal of a government appeal attempting to block their case.

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]]> In his long career as a leading research scientist for the Canadian government, Thierry Vrain was paid to reassure the public that genetically engineered foods were safe to eat.
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]]> Lion populations have declined by almost 70 percent over the last 50 years, and one chemical in particular is partially to blame. Carbofuran (Furadan), banned in Europe, Canada, and the US, is a powerful pesticide used to poison lions who have killed
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]]> Across the United States, bee populations are dying off, threatening dozens of food crops that rely on bees to pollinate them. Though many factors have contributed to the decline, a group of pesticides called neonicotinoids have been linked by
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]]> The famed Bosawas Biosphere Reserve in Nicaragua, also known as the Cloud Forest, is the largest tropical rainforest in Central America. The United Nations has declared the area a “global biological treasure” due to its immense biodiversity.
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]]> We, as mothers, have the absolute right to protect our children from harm. We have the right to know our children are safe from gun violence, from the moment they leave our arms in the morning until they return home later in the day.
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]]> From Tom Cat.

When I saw the InsaniTEA in the following clip, I knew I had to pass it on. Bear in mind the long list of actual impeachable crimes perpetrated by Crawford Caligula, Dead-eye ChickenHawk, and the rest of the Fourth Reich.
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]]> JPMorgan’s “London Whale” episode may boil down to a few senior executives attempting to increase their personal compensation.
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]]> Today, the White House is issuing a new Executive Order on Open Data -- one that is significantly different from the open data policies that have come before it -- reflecting Sunlight's persistent call for stronger public listings of agency data, &demo
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]]> Today Public Citizen filed objections to the proposed class action settlement in Fraley v. Facebook, which concerns Facebook's practice of using the images of their millions of users, without their knowledge or consent, to sell advertising.
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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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]]> Right now, after record low Arctic ice last fall delayed when polar bears could find seals, female polar bears with young cubs are trying to make up for lost hunting time -- and are frantically looking for food to gain the calories needed to nurse their
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]]> Wall Street banks the ones that wrecked our economy should not be getting a better interest rate on their government loans than young people trying to go to college.
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]]> The most honest 3 minute video you will ever watch.
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]]> There is a lack of regulation, lack of enforcement, lack of oversight and lack of scientific understanding regarding the nonetheless extremely widespread practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the search for new and ever more marginal supplies
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]]> Each day, across the nation the natural gas industry puts people, communities, forests and parks at risk from dirty and dangerous drilling. Incredibly, the natural gas industry is exempt from key provisions of major federal environmental laws, allowing
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]]> Honey bees are dying at an alarming rate, and this winter marked the worst losses by far. U.S. beekeepers reported that as man as 50% of their bees disappeared or died. Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the use of the pesticides that are killing bees.
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]]> There is a bill on the floor of the Senate right now that aims to restrict the power of the EPA. If this bill passes, the US Army Corps of Engineers stands to gain a free pass on environmental review.
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]]> The California State Assembly soon will consider new legislation to remove one of the single greatest source of toxic lead from our environment, and we need your help to ensure that this bill moves on. Assembly Bill 711 will require nonlead ammunition
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]]> Monsanto, the world's largest biotech corporation, has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Join us in demanding a Congressional investigation
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]]> No Mother should have to bury their own child. Send a message to your Senators to support background checks for all gun sales.
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]]> A new pipeline from Alberta to its Westridge Terminal in Burrard Inlet and quintuple to an estimated 360 per year the number of tankers through the Port of Vancouver and Salish Sea carrying raw tar sands bitumen to foreign refineries.
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