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Florida to drug test public employees but not elected officials, reinforces Scott’s Solantic ties

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San Francisco mayor Rick Scott

By Madison Ruppert | End the Lie Florida has become the first state in the America to allow public employees to be randomly tested for a wide variety of drugs, thanks to the Florida legislature and Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott. The glaring problem with this legislation – which was promoted by Governor Scott who [...]

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BP Spill Resurfaces on Louisiana Beaches as Gulf Depopulation Agenda Looms in the Distance

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Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism In Louisiana, remnants of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is washing up on shore in the form of tarballs that are heavily laced with Corexit. A representative from the Louisiana state Wildlife and Fisheries Department remarked that a “large mat of tar on one beach and concentrations of [...]

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TSA Continues Its Unchecked Expansion Across the U.S.

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Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post In yet another example of the expansion of the role of the TSA beyond airport security, the now infamous agency is conducting “security” screenings at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Of course, with the exception of a few alternative news sites, the fact that the TSA mission creep has advanced [...]

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Golden Dawn Rises Again, Overtakes PASOK

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Golden Dawn Greece

By Andy Dabilis | Greek Reporter Capitalizing on growing social unrest over record unemployment, resentment against immigrants and rising crime, and planned new government austerity measures, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has jumped into third place in popularity among Greek political parties, overtaking the once-dominant PASOK Socialists. According to a Pulse survey, Golden Dawn, which won [...]

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Human genome far more active than thought

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GENCODE Consortium discovers far more genes than previously thought

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Destroyed Coastal Habitats Produce Significant Greenhouse Gas

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By Erin McKenzie | Duke Destruction of coastal habitats may release as much as 1 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, 10 times higher than previously reported, according to a new Duke led study. Published online this week in PLOS ONE, the analysis provides the most comprehensive estimate of global carbon emissions from the [...]

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Australians should be willing to work for less than $2 a day – World’s richest woman Gina Rinehart

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by Jacque Fresco | azizonomics Last week she said: If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working. Today she claimed that Australians should be willing to work for less than [...]

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Iran nuclear threat non-existent: UK MP

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Paul Flynn, the Labour MP

PressTV A Labour British lawmaker has described the so-called Iranian nuclear threat as “non-existent” in response to growing media speculation and ballyhoo over the issue. Addressing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) questions, Paul Flynn, the Labour MP for Newport West, lauded the 179 British troops who were killed as a result of the US-led [...]

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Israeli leader urges EU to blacklist Hezbollah

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By Andrew Rettman | EUobserver Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Italy’s foreign minister the EU should designate Hezbollah as a terrorist entity. But EU diplomats are wary of the move. “There is one … effort that I think Europe could make to advance the cause of security and peace, and that is to declare Iran’s [...]

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Australia: ‘Draconian’ govt ‘media regulation’ proposal ‘threat to press freedom’, says News Ltd boss

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ANI News Limited chief executive Kim Williams has hit out at ‘draconian’ government proposals for a new media regulator, by which it can threaten to send journalists to jail. Williams said new technology and markets were driving media diversity and a government-funded regulator would be a ‘threat to press freedom’. According to the Herald Sun, [...]

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Powerful 7.6 earthquake rattles Costa Rica

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CBS News A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic. Reuters reported of two deaths, one of those from a heart attack, according to a spokesperson for the local Red Cross. Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla announced there were [...]

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