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'Biblical flooding' spreads across UK in worst rainfall in over 200 years (PHOTOS)
RT | author | 02/11/14

England's largest river, the Thames, has burst its banks, devastating homes in the southeast in the worst floods in 50 years. PM David Cameron has called the flooding "biblical," as economists predict the crisis will cost close on $1 billion.

Strong gales and huge waves battered the UK this weekend, causing rivers to swell and floodwaters to rise across the country. Fourteen "severe" flood warnings were issued in the counties of Berkshire and Surrey, while two remain in the worst hit county of Somerset. The severe classification means there is potential danger to human life. ... Read more

CBS | Western U.S. drought puts big strain on reservoirs (01/30/14) [2:56]

CBS | California Drought 2014: Drought From Hell Plagues California (02/04/14) [2:05]

*SOUTH BRACES FOR 'CATASTROPHIC' STORM - Atlanta Area Braces For Dangerous Ice Storm
HP/AP | Christina A. Cassidy | 02/12/14

Emergency management workers hunkered down in Atlanta waiting to spring into action as rain -- along with temperatures -- fell overnight, potentially leading to "catastrophic" ice conditions forecasters said could hit the region.

Already, Georgia Power was reporting more than 2,000 power outages early Wednesday throughout the state. Forecasters and officials said that number would probably grow throughout the day. In north Georgia, morning snow was falling. Other areas of the South, from Louisiana to South Carolina, and the Mid-Atlantic also were expected to get socked with a wintry mix of ice, snow and freezing rain. ... Read more
GeoengineeringWatch Weather Update February 2 2014 [5:42]

Kyodo: 'Massive' amount of Fukushima data wrong? "Figures can't be trusted" -- NHK: Strontium-90 by ocean at 160,000 times limit -- Tepco: Actual levels "exceeded the upper limit of measurement… We are very sorry"
ENENews | author | 02/07/14

Feb. 7, 2014: TEPCO to review "massive" radiation data due to improper measurement -- [TEPCO] said Friday that it will review a "massive" amount of radiation data it has collected at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because readings may be lower than actual figures due to improper measurement. "We are very sorry, but we found cases in which beta radiation readings turned out to be wrong when the radioactivity concentration of a sample was high," TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told a press conference. ... Read more

The Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, research on the health effects of radioactive materials, and tests on vulnerable populations without consent in St. Louis, 1945--1970
ksdk.com | Lisa Martino-Taylor | 09/27/12 older

Sociologist Lisa Martino-Taylor has spent years trying to uncover details of the Army's ultra-secret military experiments. She obtained documents from multiple federal agencies showing that St. Louis was among several cities where the aerosol testing took place.

Sen. Blunt wrote, "The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of government officials." ... Read more here or here
Chemtrails Are NOT a Conspiracy Theory (06/03/13) [4:20]

How the U.S. Exports Global Warming
RollingStone | Tim Dickinson |02/03/14

While Obama talks of putting America on the path to a clean, green future, we're flooding world markets with cheap, high carbon fuels

The greening of American energy is both real and profound. Since President Obama took office, the nation's solar capacity has increased more than tenfold. Wind power has more than doubled, to 60,000 megawatts -- enough to power nearly 20 million homes. Thanks to aggressive new fuel-efficiency standards, the nation's drivers are burning nearly 5 billion fewer gallons of gasoline a year than in 2008. The boom in cheap natural gas, meanwhile, has disrupted the coal industry. Coal-power generation, though still the nation's top source of electricity, is off nearly 20 percent since 2008. More than 150 coal plants have already been shuttered, and the EPA is expected to issue regulations in June that will limit emissions from existing coal facilities. These rules should accelerate the shift to natural gas, which -- fracking's risks to groundwater aside -- generates half the greenhouse pollution of coal. But ... Read more

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, February 12 [12:06]

*"Wounds of Waziristan" by filmmaker Madiha Tahir () [59:09]

*Bill Moyers | Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil (02/07/14) [26:46]

*NHK | Radioactive Water Fukushima Daiichi's Hidden Crises (02/05/14) [48:49]

The Horrible Truth About Fukushima -- Helen Caldicott, MD (02/09/14) [37:45]

$205 TRILLION: The Real Fiscal Gap -- Laurence Kotlikoff
SGTReport | author | 01/26/14

Laurence Kotlikoff Author and Professor of Economics at Boston University joins us to discuss the REAL DEBT of the U.S. government which is now $205 TRILLION when unfunded liabilities are actually counted.

Kotlikoff warns, "We have a country that is entirely broke, fiscally broke - it's probably in worse shape than any developed country. We are in terrible shape, even worse than Detroit because the people doing the accounting are engaged in fallacious accounting..." To my great surprise, Kotlikoff also believes that fixing "climate change" ought to be a top priority and somehow believes that a global carbon tax is the answer. ... $205 TRILLION: The Real Fiscal Gap -- Laurence Kotlikoff (02/26/14) [28:15]