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In November, environmentalists were ecstatic when President Barack Obama decided not to grant a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. But TransCanada, the company behind the project, was not so happy. On Wednesday, it filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to overturn the permit rejection. At the same time, it gave notice that it plans to pursue compensation under the North American Free Trade Agreement, to the tune of $15 billion.
In its NAFTA complaint, TransCanada alleges that “the politically-driven denial of Keystone’s application was contrary to all precedent; inconsistent with any reasonable and expected application of the relevant rules and regulations; and arbitrary, discriminatory, and expropriatory.”
In other words, TransCanada thinks it got misled and ripped off by the Obama administration, just to satisfy a wacky cabal of tree huggers. Now, it wants the US Treasury to cough up an apology in cash.
Vitamins
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There were no deaths whatsoever from vitamins in the year 2014. The 32th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, vitamin B-6, any other B-vitamin. There were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or from any vitamin at all.
Zero deaths from vitamins. Want to bet this will never be on the evening news? Well, have you seen it there? And why not?
After all, over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. If each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes about 170,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of well over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of vitamin supplements is all the more remarkable.
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, always said: “No one dies from vitamins.” He was right when he said it and he is still right today.
Ammon Bundy departs after addressing the media at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, on January 4.
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The Oregon militants are proving as stubborn as they are self-righteous, and their armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge shows no signs of resolving soon.
Not even near-unanimous opposition to their occupation by the very community the militiamen claim to be liberating from federal “tyranny” is making these men second-guess their hard stand. Nor are the occupiers heeding the plea of the Burns Piaute Tribe — who claim the refuge as part of their ancestral land — to “get the hell out of here.”
Who are the men behind the militia calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom?
Meet the key occupiers:
Ammon Bundy
Age: 40
Who: Leader of the takeover.
Where he’s from: The Bundy family ranch […]
From a global climate accord to major domestic progress on the renewables front, 2015 was a great year for clean energy. As the 12 days of Christmas concludes today, January 5, here are—fittingly—12 things we saw as the biggest developments of the year, in no particular order.
1. Climate Accord Reached
In December, 196 nations reached a landmark accord to address climate change—committing nearly every country to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement achieved at COP21 in Paris aims to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2°C by 2100 with an ideal target of keeping temperature rise below 1.5°C. The draft agreement also sets a goal for developed countries to pay at least $100 billion per year by 2020 to developing countries for mitigation and adaptation. COP21 also held the first-ever UNFCC buildings day to improve the energy efficiency of buildings globally.
2. U.S Gets its First-Ever Clean Power Plan
In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the first-ever national standards to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. The Clean Power Plan not only cuts […]
President Obama
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President Obama has done a lot for this country over the past eight years. He started off by proving that we as a nation can elect black people to office — or at least, one black person, once — which was pretty big. Then he went on to avoid a depression, pass healthcare reform, make it OK for gay people to serve openly in the military, repeal Bush’s ban on using federal tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research, forge a nuclear deal with Iran, jam with China about climate change, make student loans less hellish, crack a few jokes, sing some Al Green, and grab coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.
But all the while, President Barack “Bin Laden’s Dead” Obama has also been leading a quiet revolution in your home. Since 2009, the Obama administration has put dozens of rules in place to make home appliances run more efficiently, ultimately saving Americans a lot of cash, and maybe giving humanity a bit more time on this planet. A recent measure to reduce the […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
