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on May 14, 2015 in World News

What The BBC Doesn’t Want You To Know About Polar Ice

What The BBC Doesn’t Want You To Know About Polar Ice The BBC’s Science Editor David Shukman recently got back from an expedition to the high Arctic. Amazingly, despite having gone all that way, he seems completely to have missed the big story: that contrary to the doomsday predictions we’ve been hearing from all the experts over the last few years the ice up there seems to be getting thicker and thicker. Here, courtesy of Paul Homewood at Notalotofpeopleknowthat is the evidence. Multi-year ice in the Arctic Ocean is now at its highest levels since the winter of 2007. But… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Giffords/Kelly: Background Checks Not Enough, Oregon Needs More Gun Control

Giffords/Kelly: Background Checks Not Enough, Oregon Needs More Gun Control Just two days after Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) signed expanded background checks into law via Senate Bill 941, Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly are pressing Democrats in Oregon’s legislators to go even further–to pass more gun control while they have the chance. Giffords and Kelly held a press conference in Salem in which they expressed their desire for more gun control. Specifically, they want Democrat lawmakers to expand domestic violence provisions in that state “to include all intimate partners, not just those who are or were married or living… View Article

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on May 14, 2015 in World News

Woman Shoots Alleged Home Invader Twice to Save Sleeping Children

Woman Shoots Alleged Home Invader Twice to Save Sleeping Children On May 13, a woman shot an alleged home invader twice to save children who were sleeping in the apartment when the suspect forced his way inside. The incident occurred just after midnight. According to WKYT, the suspect allegedly forced his way through the apartment’s back door and was shot by one of two women who were awake at the time. Lexington Police Lieutenant Chris Young said the man “made entry into the apartment against the wishes of the occupants. One of those occupants was able to fire a couple… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them

Americans Totally Oblivious to US Government Practicing Human Roundup Exercises Around Them “Mock invasions, mock terrorist manhunts, shootouts, and roundups are not jokes…the last shreds of democracy are at stake” This article originally appeared at Couterpunch Anti-militarism activists are shaking their heads in amazement. We have been working for years to push back against the massive military expansion underway both in the US and around the world, fighting back one threatened community at a time. The national media has barely mentioned these efforts and local media chooses to mostly ignore the work. Militarized violence has become the new normal in… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Russia and China Have Had Enough of Western Banking

Russia and China Have Had Enough of Western Banking CNN notices the major geopolitical shift of our time This article originally appeared at CNN Money President Vladimir Putin approved a new $100 billion reserve fund over the weekend that will specifically aid the BRICS nations: Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa. It’s another step by the BRICS to build an alternative so they don’t have to go to the United States or the International Monetary Fund for any financial help. BRICS leaders first agreed on the new fund — seen by many as a power play against the west… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Just 9 days in U.S., refugee tries to rape woman

Just 9 days in U.S., refugee tries to rape woman U.N. pipeline from Third World continues unabated Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/in-u-s-just-9-days-refugee-tries-to-rape-woman/#6Sl5Vt0DS1aahf4K.99 The U.S. screening process for foreign refugees has once again failed to stop a criminal from entering the country, as indicated by the case of Tchalim Koboya Lidawo of Togo. Lidawo was in the U.S. only nine days when he was arrested in Virginia and charged with two counts of attempted rape and one count of abduction with force related to an incident on Dec. 4, 2014. Lidawo pleaded no contest to the charges May 8 and was sentenced… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

75% of children who received vaccines in Mexican town now dead or hospitalized

Depopulation test run? 75% of children who received vaccines in Mexican town now dead or hospitalized Despite the insidious attempts of the corporate-controlled U.S. media to censor the stories about the deadly side effects of vaccines, the truth keeps surfacing. The latest vaccine tragedy to strike has killed two babies in La Pimienta, Mexico and sent 37 more to the hospital with serious reactions to toxic vaccine additives. (Tweet this story) “…14 children are in serious condition, 22 are stable and one is in critical condition,” the Chiapas Health Secretariat said in a statement via Latino.FoxNews.com. What’s especially alarming is… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

TPP means Congress giving away its authority to ‘global busybodies’

Fast track? How about a pro-America track? Phyllis Schlafly: TPP means Congress giving away its authority to ‘global busybodies’ Congress, led by Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is preparing to betray American workers, and the grass roots should rise up and say, “No, you don’t.” The secretive underhanded deal is called “fast track,” and that’s an appropriate title because, indeed, it puts Americans on a fast track to lower wages and fewer available jobs. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of the few Members of Congress who has actually read and studied fast track plus its companion… View Article

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on May 12, 2015 in World News

Obama’s Pacific Trade Push Faces a Senate Vote This Week

Obama’s Pacific Trade Push Faces a Senate Vote This Week President Obama’s most aggressive and sustained legislative push since the Affordable Care Act faces a crucial first test this week when a divided Senate considers a bill that would grant him accelerated power to complete a massive trade accord with 11 nations across the Pacific Rim. But after lobbying members of Congress in a campaign that has included rides on Air Force One, meetings in the West Wing, private vows of political support and public attacks on critics in his own party, Mr. Obama’s top legislative priority remains at risk…. View Article

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