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  • Gas Industry Successfully Overturns Colorado Fracking Ban

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <div class='node-body'><p>The townspeople in Fort Collins were greeted with some unfortunate news earlier this week, as their <a href="http://www.boulderijournal.com/article.php?id=8665" target="_blank">city council decided to overturn a ban</a> on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few short months.

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  • Botswana government at war with San

    Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Sun, 2013-05-26

    Despite court defeats and international condemnation, the government of Botswana is continuing its assault on the San by attempting to forcibly relocate another community from land they have occupied for decades, says the Khwedom Council, a...

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  • Commodification and rationing

    Syndicated from International Viewpoint on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>The basis of the health policy of the European Union (EU) is the Treaty of Lisbon, composed of the TEU (Treaty on the EU, known as the Treaty of Maastricht) and the TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, which comes from the European Constitutional Treaty rejected by referendum in France and the Netherlands in 2005 and has not been much amended).</p>

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  • The heretic's guide to the Bible

    Syndicated from Libcom on Sun, 2013-05-26

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  • 'Corporate Colonialism' Runs Wild as 'Growth' Bulldozes Forests

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/destroyed_0_0.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 405px;" title="&quot;Growth.&quot; (Photo: Rainforest Action Network/flickr)" /><span class="caption">&quot;Growth.&quot; (Photo: Rainforest Action Network/flickr)</span></span>&quot;Corporate colonialism&quot

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  • Exposed: Japanese Officials Upped Radiation Yardsticks to Dodge Compensation Costs

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <div class='node-body'><p>Japanese officials raised the level of acceptable radiation doses for evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to avoid increasing costs for compensation, Japan&#39;s <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305250053"><em>Asahi Shimbun</em> reported</a> on Saturday.</p>

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  • Massive Anti-Gay Marriage Protest Hits Paris

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/manifpourtous.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 361px;" title="Anti-gay marriage protesters in Paris on Sunday. (Photo: ANFAD/cc/flickr)" /><span class="caption">Anti-gay marriage protesters in Paris on Sunday.

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  • Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sun, 2013-05-26

    Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action.

    In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher at...

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  • First 100,000 Keystone comments reveal intensity of fight

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>First 100,000 Keystone comments reveal intensity of fight over oil sands pipeline<br />
    By Ben Geman - 05/24/13</p>
    <p>Inside Climate News/The Hill</p>

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  • Tar Sands sales dropping dramtically

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>Oil sands deals lose traction </p>
    <p>JEFFREY JONES</p>
    <p>CALGARY — The Globe and Mail</p>
    <p>May. 24 2013</p>
    <p>There’s a buyers’ strike in the oil sands.</p>

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  • Marathon Ends Talks With Potential Tar Sands Buyer

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>Marathon Ends Talks With Potential Oil Sands Buyer<br />
    By Rebecca Penty - May 24, 2013<br />
    Bloomberg</p>
    <p>Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) ended talks to sell part of its stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project as Canadian oil sands deals languish in the face of low heavy crude prices and competing U.S. shale investments.</p>

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  • Enbridge to meet re-elected B.C. Liberals on Northern Gateway

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>Enbridge to meet re-elected B.C. Liberals on Northern Gateway</p>
    <p>Rebecca Penty, Bloomberg News | 13/05/24 </p>
    <p>Enbridge Inc. is moving ahead with plans to meet five conditions for the British Columbia government to support its proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline, after a Liberal re-election made clear terms needed to satisfy officials in the Pacific Coast province.</p>

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  • With U.S. Awash in Oil, Keystone Argument Weakens

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>With U.S. Awash in Oil, Keystone Argument Weakens</p>
    <p>By John H. Cushman Jr.<br />
    May 24, 2013 </p>
    <p>InsideClimateNews.org -- U.S. oil production is suddenly growing so fast that some analysts are questioning how much the country really needs the Canadian tar sands oil that would move through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.</p>

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  • House supporters of KXL received $56m from fossil fuel industry

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sun, 2013-05-26

    <p>House supporters of KXL received $56m from fossil fuel industry</p>
    <p>Republican led House passed a bill that would force Obama to approve the controversial pipeline</p>
    <p>By Natasha Lennard<br />
    Thursday, May 23, 2013</p>
    <p><a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/house-supporters-kxl-received-56m-fossil-fuel-industry" target="_blank">read more</a></p>

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  • (fr) France, Courant Alternatif CA #229 - L'islamophobie en France Sainte Laïcité clivante priez pour nous!

    Syndicated from A-Infos (Français) on Sun, 2013-05-26

    Institutionnel et commun, particulier et quotidien, le système dans lequel nous vivons
    baigne dans le racisme et la peur de l'autre. Le terme «islamophobie» rentre dans la
    catégorie de ces mots où l'opacité le dispute à l'intensité.

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