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Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis
WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable ...
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Earth 'Locked Into' Hitting Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years: Study | Nika Knight
"This is not an exact prediction or a forecast," the author of the new research said, advising caution regarding her study's temperature predictions. "The experiment we as humans are doing is very ...
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Ban Ki-Moon’s Legacy in Palestine: Failure in Words and Deeds | Ramzy Baroud
Ban Ki moon. By Chatham House. Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 27, 2016 Ban Ki-Moon's second term as the Secretary General of the United Nations is ending this December. He ...
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SIGN of the times: Cardboard 'activism' helps maintain the status quo | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 26, 2016 DISCLAIMER: The original Facebook post (and ensuing comments) that provoked this article were written by people I know. This ...
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Amerika, A Colony of Empire | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 26, 2016 Watching Richard Attenborough's fine 1983 film Gandhi, one sees just how a colony of empire operates. The Indian people were ...
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That summer I was the youngest employee in Gimbel’s | Mickey Z.
From: nycvintage.blogspot.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 22, 2016 My first after-school job was delivering the long-defunct Long Island Press but I really entered the working world when I ...
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Honoring Aylan Kurdi by Ending the War in Syria | Ramzy Baroud
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi. (AP Photo/DHA) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 21, 2016 "A photograph, no matter how emotionally wrenching, can only do ...
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It’s About Groceries | Emanuele Corso
Groceries. Credit: meaduva. Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Sept. 21, 2016 It seems at times that the world is what it must be like for a fly climbing a window pane. You can ...
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A Time for Retrovation | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerSept. 21, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been a little more than a year now since I started the narrative that wrapped up last week. The two weeks that Peter Carr spent in the ...
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Warren Says Wells Fargo's Stumpf Should Resign, Face Criminal Investigation | Laura J Keller & Elizabeth Dexheimer
Sept. 20, 2016 (Bloomberg) -- Wells Fargo & Co.’s John Stumpf should resign, give back his compensation and face criminal prosecution for a scandal in which the bank opened unauthorized accounts for ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2016 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 19, 2016 Sept. 14-24 Screening of Command and Control. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., New York. Sept. 19 Noon, Daryl Kimball, ...
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