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Are You Prepared for a Nationwide Strike?

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By Earl Griffin | Barking Window While reading the news this morning I came across this: 10,000 striking workers have shut down vital ports in both Los Angeles and Long Beach. This is not a criticism or endorsement of that action – I believe that in America we should be free to follow our conscience. [...]

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Conventional Food May Soon be Sterilized with ‘Microwave Zap’

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by Anthony Gucciardi | NaturalSociety If you are among the millions who avoid ‘nuking’ food with microwave radiation in your own home, you may soon have yet another reason to avoid most conventional food items. Using the ‘recent emergence’ of salmonella and E.coli in food as a scapegoat, the corporation known as MicroZap is seeking [...]

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Mayor Bloomberg Orders Raid on Occupy Sandy Disaster Relief Shelter

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By JG Vibes | theintelhub In the response to hurricane Sandy, Occupy Wall Street supporters have shown that voluntary, decentralized mutual aid is far more effective than government programs and agencies like FEMA. At one point, pictures were taken of occupy sandy volunteers feeding FEMA workers who couldn’t even find supplies for themselves. Now, super [...]

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Monsanto to receive huge government bailout from European Union

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By Ethan A. Huff | Natural News After unloading tens of millions of dollars to defeat the historic California Proposition 37 to label genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), biotechnology abomination Monsanto is now set to receive a multi-million dollar bailout from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a London-based financial group connected to the World [...]

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Search for Life Suggests Solar Systems More Habitable than Ours

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By Pam Frost Gorder | OSU Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth. That’s because the interiors of any terrestrial planets in these systems are likely warmer than Earth—up to [...]

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No Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data

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By Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass | ProPublica The U.S. government isn’t allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge. But there are plenty of legal ways for law enforcement, from the local sheriff to the FBI, to snoop on the digital trails you create every day. Authorities can often obtain your [...]

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US Repeats Syrian Chemical Weapons “Warnings”

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LD US repeats same tired, desperate accusations that the Syrian army is preparing to use “chemical weapons.” Once again, the US has issued a warning against Syria deploying “chemical weapons” citing “intelligence reports that the Damascus government is preparing such munitions for possible use.” No evidence was provided, nor any reasonable explanation as to why [...]

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24% of EU population ‘at risk of poverty or social exclusion’

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EurAktiv Twenty-four percent of the EU population – or 119.6 million people – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2011, according to Eurostat figures published yesterday (3 December). The figure is one percentage point higher than the year before, when 23.4% of the population was considered at risk of poverty or social [...]

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Extreme weather is new normal, U.N.’s Ban tells climate talks

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Ban Ki-Moon at Doha 2012

The Daily Star Extreme weather is the new normal and poses a threat to the human race, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, as he sought to revive deadlocked global climate change talks. Ban’s intervention came as efforts to agree a symbolic extension of the U.N. Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that obliges about 35 [...]

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Voyager 1 hits ‘magnetic highway’ to outer space

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By Kate Taylor | TG Daily NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the last region it has to cross before reaching interstellar space. The team describes this new region as a ‘magnetic highway’ for charged particles. Our sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magnetic field lines, allowing lower-energy charged particles originating inside our heliosphere to [...]

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Mars to be colonized by millionaires

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By Irina Shlionskaya | Pravda.ru Elon Musk, an American billionaire and co-founder of SpaceX, announced development of a rocket motor designed for flight to Mars. According to his calculations, the price of “delivery” of a single colonist to the Red Planet would be half a million dollars. The future “Martians” are expected to pay the entire [...]

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N.Korea installs second-stage rocket on launch pad

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VOR North Korean space scientists have installed the second stage of the long-range rocket onto the launch pad in preparation to the satellite launch on December 10-22 and are now busy fixing the third and last stage. The rocket’s launch has been slated between December 10 and 22. Last week Pyongyang announced plans to launch a [...]

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