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• 10,000 Signatures for Universal Healthcare May 22, 2013
• Health Care for All Colorado Will Try for 2014 Ballot May 22, 2013
• Some unions protest Obamacare’s impact on Multiemployer Health Plans May 22, 2013
• Unions break ranks on ObamaCare May 21, 2013

Climate Progress

• House Attempts To Force Approval Of Keystone Pipeline That Would Create Just 35 Permanent Jobs May 23, 2013
  In what will likely prove as meaningless a vote as the 37th repeal vote of Obamacare, on Wednesday night 241 members of the House of Representatives voted to approve the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. H.R. 3 would give Congress the power to approve the pipeline and allow TransCanada to build the northern [...]     […]
• No-Water-Gate: Scandalous NY Times Piece On Dust-Bowlification Never Mentions Climate Change May 22, 2013
  On Sunday, I wrote about the real scandal of the century that the media is ignoring or misreporting — unchecked global warming (see “Worse Than Watergate“). Now I have a name for this growing scandal — No-Water-Gate. It is increasingly clear that the gravest climate threat to the most people in the coming decades will [...]     […]
• Tesla Motors Pays Back Energy Department Loan 9 Years Early May 22, 2013
  Electric automaker Tesla Motors just announced that it has paid back the nearly half a billion dollars the Department of Energy lent it in 2010. According to a company press release, today’s wire transfer of $451.8 million dollars follows two other payments in the last year and a half. U.S. taxpayers could see a $12 [...]     […]
• Bombshell: China May Be Close To Implementing A Cap On Carbon Pollution May 22, 2013
  China is taking steps to tackle its huge carbon output. Today, the country announced the details of its first carbon trading program, which will begin in the city of Shenzhen next month. The southern city is one of seven cities and provinces, including Beijing, which will take part in the pilot program, set to be [...]     […]

Science Daily

• Thinking 'big' may not be best approach to saving large-river fish May 22, 2013
  Large-river specialist fishes -- from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub -- are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them if major tributaries become a focus of conservation efforts. […]
• Pinpointing how nature's benefits link to human well-being May 22, 2013
  What people take from nature -- water, food, timber, inspiration, relaxation -- are so abundant, it seems self-evident. Until you try to quantitatively understand how and to what extent they contribute to humans. […]
• Scientists develop worm EEG to test the effects of drugs May 22, 2013
  Scientists have developed a device which records the brain activity of worms to help test the effects of drugs. NeuroChip is a microfluidic electrophysiological device, which can trap the microscopic worm Caenorhadbitis elegans and record the activity of discrete neural circuits in its 'brain' - a worm equivalent of the EEG. […]
• Top 10 new species of 2012 May 22, 2013
  An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by a global committee of taxonomists. […]

Think Progress

• No-Water-Gate: Scandalous NY Times Piece On Dust-Bowlification Never Mentions Climate Change May 22, 2013
• Colorado Governor Grants Execution Reprieve: ‘It Is A Legitimate Question’ Whether State Should Be Taking Lives May 22, 2013
• LA County Deploys 40-Foot ‘Condom Mobile’ To Help Encourage Safer Sex May 22, 2013
• Tesla Motors Pays Back Energy Department Loan 9 Years Early May 22, 2013

PR Watch

• The Homeland Security Apparatus: Fusion Centers, Data Mining and Private Sector Partners May 22, 2013
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• Raw Milk Supporters Rally in Baraboo, Wisconsin for Farmer Vernon Hershberger's Criminal Trial May 22, 2013
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• How the Government Targeted Occupy May 21, 2013
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• "True the Vote," the Victim? Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin May 21, 2013
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Paul Krugman

• The Sloppiness Syndrome May 22, 2013
• Perma-Stimulus, Again May 21, 2013
• Sharing Abuse Fairly May 21, 2013
• The Theory of Interstellar Finance May 20, 2013

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Of interest...

• Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy
• Scott Walker goes to Washington (thank you, Darrell Issa)
• The Tea Party's 2012 Hit List
• While Obama Touts Compromise with GOP, Progressive Lawmakers Unveil "People’s Budget"

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