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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have likely inflicted serious heart defects and possibly premature death in tuna and other large marine fish, according to a study initiated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Embryos of three fish – bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna and an amberjack – have been exposed to the field-collected Deepwater Horizon crude oil samples by a group of scientists led by NOAA.   Continue reading “Deepwater Horizon oil spill cause fatal heart defects in tuna – study”

Gawker – by Jay Hathaway

A Florida woman is suing Volusia County and the city of New Smyrna Beach after police officers forced her to poop in her front yard and undress in front of them while they searched her house for meth.

Dawn Brooks says officer brought her outside in handcuffs, and then refused her requests to use the bathroom indoors. They “told her to ‘just use the restroom right there’ in the front yard, which plaintiff did,” according to a district court judge’s summary of the incident.   Continue reading “Florida Woman Claims Police Made Her Poop on Her Lawn During Meth Bust”

Press TV – by Dr. Kevin Barrett

In Ukraine – as in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere – the Empire’s forces are in disarray. The loss of Crimea, and setbacks in Syria, are merely the latest of many debacles. The cause of this ongoing disaster: A series of self-inflicted wounds.   Continue reading “Will Israel kill US empire this week?”

Reuters – by Ayesha Rascoe

The Obama administration gave the green light on Monday for exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a plant to be built in Oregon, the second such authorization this year, as pressure intensifies on the White House to use the U.S. energy bounty to respond to the political crisis in Ukraine.

It is unclear whether the approval of exports from Veresen Inc’s Jordan Cove plant, the first LNG-export plant permitted on the U.S. West Coast, was accelerated by political tension related to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.   Continue reading “Oregon plant LNG exports approved as U.S. pressured to flex energy muscle”

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Article first appeared in privacysos.org:

FirstNet is a public/private cooperative surveillance and information exchange enterprise—avast network to share Americans’ personal information—conceived by and written into law with the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. By law, FirstNet’s purpose is to “create a nationwide, wireless, interoperable, public safety broadband network,” a euphemism that means, “increase the ease with which government agencies share private and public information about people.” By consolidating the placement of points of reference and interoperability for each potential node of state, local, commercial, and other communications networks, FirstNet is a blueprint for making surveillance data-sharing national, lightning-fast, and independent from the insecure, heavily monitored public internet.   Continue reading “FirstNet America’s national ‘First Responder’ surveillance & spying network”

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Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Parents will have little choice over whether or not to have their children vaccinated in Colorado now, due to a bipartisan measure passed by Colorado’s House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee this past Thursday. Parents who intended to claim the ‘opt out’ available in a current rendition of Colorado’s current law, due to religious or personal beliefs, will find it much more difficult to do so.   Continue reading “Colorado House Passes Forced Vaccination Bill: One of 18 States Pushing Corporate Drugs”

RT News – by Claudio Gallo

If we jump for a minute out of the ever-flowing river of the news, we might realize our being deep inside the Fourth World War.

It started in 1989 with the fall of Berlin Wall that marked the end of the Third one, aka the Cold War. The last chapter of WW4 is obviously the failed attempt to expel Russia from Crimea, but up to now its more symbolic stage remains the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that started on March 24, 1999, exactly 15 years ago. It was a war against Slobodan Milosevic, but also a war to shift eastward NATO influence and boundaries.   Continue reading “NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: Symbolic stage of Current World War”

The Blaze – by Jason Howerton

The superintendent of Springfield Public Schools told 970 WMAY on Monday that he doesn’t plan to remove a workbook that contains an outrageous definition of the Second Amendment, despite the outrage it has generated among parents.

The workbook, currently being utilized by seventh-graders at Grant Middle School in Springfield, Ill., teaches students that the Second Amendment gives people the “right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.”   Continue reading “Listen to Superintendent Explain Why He Refuses to Remove Workbook With Outrageous Definition of Second Amendment”

Truth Revolt – by Trey Sanchez 

A mother of a first-grader in Louisiana posted a photo online showing a “psycho-social checklist” sent home from school that asks if her child has “sexual identity issues.”

The checklist that Central Community School System in Baton Rouge, La. sent home asks parents to complete the form and check off any “stressors” their child may have or experienced. It states:   Continue reading “Schoolchildren’s ‘Psycho-Social Checklist’ Asks First-Grader’s ‘Sexual Identity Issues’”