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'Get to Know Chris Hayes' -- Learn He Really Avoids Obama Scandals Like the Plague	21.5.2013	NewsBusters
MSNBC ads on liberal websites like Salon.com are pushing to increase interest and ratings in the badly named show "All In," when it could be titled "A Few In." Or, to quote Dana Carvey's George Bush, "Still Gaining Acceptance." The ad says "Click here to get to know Chris Hayes." This takes you to the "All In With Chris Hayes" Facebook page. What you get there is a great sense of just how energetically Hayes is trying to avoid the Obama scandals. Instead, the scandal is the alleged starvation of the public sector: read ...
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Senate debates farm bill	21.5.2013	Politico
Senate debates farm bill
White House says more subsidy cuts needed in massive farm bill moving through Senate	21.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Are The Deficit Hawks Actually Trying To Starve Us Now?	21.5.2013	Crooks Liars
This is not a rhetorical question: Are the deficit hawks consciously trying to kill people? Do they begrudge even this minimal help? All the money in the world for war, but not to feed people? When you have so many people hanging by a thread, cutting the program that's putting food on their table seems like a recipe for a major crisis -- or a revolution: A heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of people hanging in the balance. Nearly 47 million people – one in seven Americans – rely on food stamps for some or all of their daily sustenance, according to the Department of Agriculture , a number that has grown nearly 70 percent since the financial collapse of 2008. The increased enrollment has caused costs to soar from $35 billion in 2007 to $80 billion last year, and now lawmakers in both the House and the Senate are targeting program for cuts even as advocates cry ...
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Senate panel supports Hatch’s pot farming penalties	21.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 04:10PM MDT Washington • The Senate’s immigration bill now includes tougher criminal penalties for growing marijuana on public lands after the Judiciary Committee unanimously accepted an amendment offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Monday. The new criminal penalties largely target Mexican cartels that for years have set up one-season marijuana farms on Forest Service and BLM land throughout the western United States, including throughout southern Utah. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, explained the amendment as ... ...
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Pot farms on public lands draw federal scrutiny	20.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: National News
WASHINGTON - Somewhere in the remote wilderness of southern Utah on land controlled by the federal government, members of a Mexican cartel are putting marijuana plants in the earth in hopes of reaping a multimillion dollar harvest this fall.
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British ‘opt-out’ from EU could complicate law enforcement in Irish ‘bandit country’	20.5.2013	Washington Post: World
COUNTY LOUTH, Ireland — The narrow, winding road along the border between counties Armagh and Louth looks like any other in rural Ireland. But the video cameras on trees leading to the farm of Thomas “Slab” Murphy, a suspected smuggler and former IRA leader, and monuments to the “disappeared” – killed nearby by the IRA during the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland – are visible signs of how this area requires some of the closest cross-border police co-operation in the ...
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US drones strike again in Yemen, kill 2 AQAP fighters	20.5.2013	Bill Roggio
Two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed while driving a motorcycle in the central province of Baydah. The strike is the second reported in Yemen in four days.
Drumbeat: May 20, 2013	20.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry. In many other places, there no longer is enough water to supply farmers’ peak needs during Kansas’ scorching summers. And when the groundwater runs out, it is gone for good. Refilling the aquifer would require hundreds, if not thousands, of years of rains. This is in many ways a slow-motion crisis — decades in the making, imminent for some, years or decades away for others, hitting one farm but leaving an adjacent one untouched. But across the rolling plains and tarmac-flat farmland near the Kansas-Colorado border, the effects of depletion are evident everywhere. Highway bridges span arid stream beds. Most of the creeks and rivers that once veined the land have dried up as 60 years of pumping have pulled groundwater levels down by scores and even ...
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: A few real scandals to mix with the fake ones	20.5.2013	Daily Kos
Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive writes House Republicans say no free lunch for poor kids : [T]he poor and the hungry shouldn’t have to suffer because of Wall Street’s excesses and George Bush’s wars. If Republicans wanted to make reasonable cuts out of the Farm Bill, they should have gone after corporate welfare to the giant food companies. But no, they’d rather take a poor kid’s meal away. Once in office, Reagan, continued to supply munitions and training to the Guatemalan army, despite a ban on military aid imposed by the Carter administration (existing contracts were exempt from the ban). And economic aid continued to flow, increasing to $104 million in 1986, from $11 million in 1980, nearly all of it going to the rural western highlands, where the Mayan victims of the genocide lived. This aid helped the Guatemalan military implement a key part of its counterinsurgency campaign: following the massacres, soldiers herded survivors into “model villages,” detention camps really, ...
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Proposed farm bills would cut billions from current spending levels	20.5.2013	Washington Post: Politics
The House and Senate are set to consider separate five-year farm bills that would cut billions annually from current spending levels after the agriculture committees from both chambers approved the legislation last week. ...
Editorial: Worry about food stamp growth, not junk food	20.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Opinion
Editorial: Worry about food stamp growth, not junk food
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State dairymen seek bigger share of whey windfall	20.5.2013	LA Times: Business
State dairymen seek bigger share of whey windfall
US Senate to take up farm bill	19.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Politics
The U.S. Senate will take up the farm bill this week. That legislation sends at least a billion dollars a year to Minnesota in the form of crop subsidies and food stamps and conservation programs.
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Standing Tall for Landowner Rights	19.5.2013	The Moderate Voice
by Walter Brasch Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the Bois d’Arc Creek. TransCanada is an Alberta-based corporation that is building [...]
Minnesota House debates child care bill but delays final action	19.5.2013	Star Tribune: Latest
The House delayed final action on a controversial child-care bill after an all-night debate.
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Hatch has plan to attack public-lands pot farms	19.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 19, 2013 01:00AM MDT Washington • Somewhere in the remote wilderness of southern Utah on land controlled by the federal government, members of a Mexican cartel are putting new marijuana plants in the earth in hopes of reaping a multimillion dollar harvest this fall. And it eats at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Sue Thomas. “They have taken over our public lands. They have no stake in Utah,” she said. “They are here to use and abuse our public lands for their own profit,” she said. These illegal flash farms a... ...
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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change	19.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ...
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Editorial \| Notebook: Before You Buy That T-Shirt	18.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial \| Notebook: Before You Buy That T-Shirt
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Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video) (Cached)	18.5.2013	Informed Comment
Michael Mann: Climate change is already costing us $1 trillion a year. Aljazeera asks Professor Mann why there is still confusion among Americans about the perils of climate change, at a time when the scientific consensus is virtually complete. Some recent links on the impact: Much of Australia’s farmland could turn to desert or be [...]
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