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Alaskan gold miners cry foul over ‘heavy-handed’ EPA raids

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“When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think.  Did it really take eight armed men and a squad-size display of paramilitary force to check for dirty water? Some of the miners, who run small businesses, say they felt intimidated.  Others wonder if the actions of the agents put everyone at risk. How is a remote placer miner to know the people in the jackets saying POLICE really are police?”

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130903/gold-miners-near-chicken-cry-foul-over-heavy-handed-epa-raids

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Seized shark fins dumped in Marshall Islands ceremony

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“The gesture underscored the progress made towards protecting the marine predators since the Marshalls declared a two million square kilometre (770,000 square mile) shark sanctuary in 2011.  Villagomez said some commercial tuna fishermen still illegally cut the fins from sharks, even though they earned very little from the practice. ‘Fishermen only receive a few dollars (per fin),’ he said. ‘But once they are processed in China and sold in Hong Kong restaurants, the price can be as high as US$1,500 per kilo.’ The fins that were dumped off the capital Majuro were confiscated from a Chinese longline fishing vessel earlier this year that was fined $125,000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/seized-shark-fins-dumped-in-marshall-islands-ceremony/

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Too cute to kill? Americans split on whether or not to kill suburban deer

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“While beloved by many, Bambi is blamed not only for accidents — 1.2 million between July 2011 and June 2012 according to one estimate — but also a loss of vegetation and even the spread of disease in suburban America.  Amid safety qualms about shooting rifles in residential areas, communities are getting creative and turning to bow hunting and even birth control to keep down deer numbers in towns and suburbs. Near Washington, some homeowners irked by deer lunching on their landscaping or worried about Lyme disease — transmitted by the deer tick — call on archery experts to carry out culls.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/too-cute-to-kill-amercans-split-on-whether-or-not-to-kill-suburban-deer/

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Paul Ehrlich predicted an imminent population catastrophe in 1965

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“Mr. Ehrlich, a biologist specializing in butterflies, became famous in the 1970s after publishing ‘The Population Bomb’ (1968), in which he updated the 19th-century projections of Thomas Malthus—people were overbreeding, the supply of food and resources couldn’t possibly keep up—and dialed the calamity to 11. Within a few short years, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death as civilization unraveled. Or so predicted Mr. Ehrlich. ‘The Population Bomb’ was reprinted 22 times in the first three years alone, and its author would appear as Johnny Carson’s guest on ‘The Tonight Show’ at least 20 times.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324165204579026631593290784.html

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Global Warming Alarmists Seek to Restrict Air Conditioning

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“New York University sociology professor Eric Klinenberg said it is ‘indefensible’ for people to use air conditioning the way we do. Klinenberg argues that air conditioning requires too much electricity, the generation of which accelerates global warming.  ‘What’s indefensible is our habit of converting homes, offices and massive commercial outlets into igloos on summer days, regardless of how hot it is outdoors,’ wrote Klinenberg. Klinenberg also argued for laws requiring businesses to keep summer temperatures at their facilities above a government-dictated mandatory minimum.”

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/07/23/global-warming-alarmists-seek-restrict-air-conditioning

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John Kerry: Science on climate change is ‘irrefutable and it is alarming’

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“US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts. ‘The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming,’ Kerry told a climate conference in Majuro in the Marshall Islands in a video address from Washington.  ‘If we continue down our current path, the impacts of climate change will only get worse.’  Kerry said without strong, immediate action, the world would experience threats to critical infrastructure, regional stability, public health, economic vitality, and the long-term viability of some states.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/02/john-kerry-science-on-climate-change-is-irrefutable-and-it-is-alarming/

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Navy: Training, testing may kill whales, dolphins

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“Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and injure thousands over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives underwater, according to two environmental impact statements released by the military Friday.  The Navy said that the studies focused on waters off the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, Southern California and Hawaii from 2014 through 2019, the main areas that the service branch tests equipment and trains sailors.  Most of the deaths would come from explosives, though some might come from testing sonar or animals being hit by ships.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/navy-training-testing-may-kill-whales-dolphins

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The Undead Corporate Welfare Programs For Automakers

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“Originally created by Congress in 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program provided low-cost government loans that were subsidized, guaranteed, and then in part eaten, as we now know, by hapless and strung-out American taxpayers.  Ford was the top beneficiary. While bragging vociferously that it hadn’t been bailed out by the government, as opposed to GM and Chrysler, it received a $5.9 billion loan under that program ostensibly to retool its plants and start producing electric vehicles. Nissan got $1.4 billion to build its plug-in EV, the Leaf. Tesla got $465 million. It is building a few, very expensive plug-in EVs a day. Others weren’t so ‘successful.'”

http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/8/27/the-undead-corporate-welfare-programs-for-automakers.html

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Study Indicates That America’s Driving Boom is Over

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“After decades of adding more cars to their household fleet while moving further and further out into the suburbs, Americans are waiting longer to get licensed, driving less and increasingly turning to alternatives such as mass transit or car-sharing programs, according to a new study by the U.S. Public Research Interest Group, or PIRG.  It’s not just millennials. Overall, the percentages of Americans of driving age who actually were licensed fell to just 86 percent in 2011, a 30-year low. As recently as 1992, the figure stood at 90 percent. Meanwhile, the number of vehicles Americans owned has also begun to tumble.”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100740140

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Paul Craig Roberts: Growing Up In America

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“The young have no memory of the past. They cannot know how exciting automobiles once were. The excitement created by the explosion of styles, colors, and performance in 1955 is gone from the world. It was a 15-year experience, with the muscle cars of the 1960s keeping the thrill alive.  Today if you have a quarter of a million dollars to spend on a car, you can purchase cars that can outperform these icons of the 1960s. But if you drive up in your Audi A-8, your AMG Mercedes, your Porsche turbo, your Ferrari Italia, the audience will flock to the E-Type and to the Miura. Style, when it was not dictated by Washington, was brilliant. There will never again be anything like it.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/08/19/growing-up-in-america-paul-craig-roberts/

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