- Thailand declares state of emergency in Bangkok
- Catalonia Pushes For Independence From Spain—235,000 signatures collected in one weekend.
- Scottish independence: Economy matters most, says social attitudes survey
- Ukraine protests: 'Two people' killed in Kiev clashes
- After another night of violence, Russia tells Europeans not to interfere in Ukraine
- Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government's Ever Sent
- Russia cracks down on green activism ahead of Sochi Olympics—"Russian courts sentence Evgeny Vitishko, a critic of the Sochi Olympics construction projects, to three years."
- Palm Oil Company Fined Millions for Burning Sumatran Forest
- Judge sides with company in asbestos fight, cuts liability by more than $1 billion
- Halliburton manager gets probation for destroying Deepwater Horizon evidence—"Oil company's cement technology expert deleted data uncovered by inquiry into fatal oil well blowout in April 2010."
- California official: utilities would like to "strangle" solar
- China's smog now 20 times worse than safe levels
- China's exports linked to western U.S. air pollution
- Westerners are so convinced China is a dystopian hellscape they'll share anything that confirms it—"Take, for instance, the reports about pollution being so severe in Beijing that residents now watch radiant sunrises broadcast on a huge screen in Tiananmen Square."
- Freedom Industries files for bankruptcy, owes $2.4 million to IRS—Looks like West Virginians will be stuck paying for the clean-up.
- Chemical-Related Hospital Admissions In West Virginia Have Doubled Since Water Deemed Safe—Not so fast.
- Elk River leak included another chemical—"Federal and state investigators learned Tuesday that an additional chemical that wasn't previously identified was in the tank that leaked Jan. 9 at the Freedom Industries tank farm, just upstream from West Virginia American Water's regional drinking water intake."
- West Virginia Governor On Safety Of Water Supply: 'It's Your Decision… I'm Not A Scientist'
- West Virginia politicians consider chemical regulation after spill
- Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist—"From North America to Europe, the 'national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism."
- Livestream captures violent arrest of anti-fracking protester
- Fracking Chemicals In North Carolina Will Remain Secret, Industry-Funded Commission Rules
- Drugs, Death, Neglect: Behind the Scenes at Animal Planet—Our exclusive investigation reveals how animals suffer on the network's top reality show."
- BBC admits filming nature scenes in 'controlled conditions' as cameraman claims small animal footage was 'faked'
- Reward offered for whooping cranes illegally shot in Western Kentucky
- Japanese fishermen begin annual slaughter of hundreds of dolphins—Anonymous gets involved.
- India's forest man—"Lauded for growing an entire forest over thirty years, Jadav Payeng shows the way forward to afforestation."
- Obama's NSA Speech Fails To Register With Americans, Poll Finds
- Five Criticisms of Obama's NSA Speech
- 'The USA knows that for us spying is a crime'—"German reaction to President Barack Obama's much-anticipated speech on Friday on the future of NSA spying has veered from skepticism to veiled threats with politicians suggesting legal action is a possibility."
- Human Rights Watch annual report 2014 criticises NSA mass surveillance—And that Obama has not gone far enough on NSA reforms.
- Stewart Skewers Obama's NSA Speech: Privacy Is Important!… Unless We Decide It Isn't!
- New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily "tips" to FBI for at least 3 years—"Secret 2007 court order mentions 'approximately three telephone identifiers.'"
- US withholding Fisa court orders on NSA bulk collection of Americans' data—"Justice Department refuses to turn over 'certain other' documents in ACLU lawsuit meant to shed light on surveillance practices."
- Legislators in 6 States Want to Pull the Plug on NSA Spying—Some Literally
- Google's Eric Schmidt denies knowledge of NSA data tapping of firm—"Executive chairman says search company has 'complained at great length' to the US government over intrusion."
- Reddit co-founder: NSA supporters offering 'false choice'
- Snowden to ask Russian police for protection after US threats – lawyer
- NSA files: Snowden says 'I acted alone' and rubbishes Russian spy claims—"Former spy agency contractor tells magazine that attempt to link him to FSB are 'absurd.'"
- The Big Brother bargain: How government surveillance became easy and cheap—"It used to be that intelligence gathering was painstaking and expensive. Not anymore!" Salon
- China cracks down on web anonymity with new regulations
- Google should have been fined $1B over privacy policy, says EU justice chief
- Privacy tools used by 28% of the online world, research finds—"Concern about privacy, and frustration over censorship and content blocking is driving millions to use anonymity tools."
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