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Obama has made an average of two drone strikes per week since he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Two weeks ago he announced that he was going to cut back on his addiction to killing people from 6,000 miles away, but apparently his therapy isn’t going very well.

Pakistan summons US ambassador to protest against latest drone killings | World news | guardian.co.uk

The worst genocides of the 20th and 21st Century

In order to save the environment from an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction invisible CO2, environmentalists first have to destroy it.

Increasing numbers of tourists visiting Scotland are surprised and shocked by the number of wind farms cropping up throughout Scotland.

That’s the view of James Fraser, chairman of the Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, who was a panellist last night, Thursday, at the Helensburgh Advertiser’s Big Debate on wind farms.

Mr Fraser said: “Increasingly, we are hearing adverse comments. Our visitors are saying they are surprised and shocked by the number of wind farms. It might be too late and people will start voting with their feet.”

Tourists ‘shocked and surprised’ by wind farm numbers / Helensburgh Advertiser / News / This Week

MONDAY 20 MARCH 2000

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.  “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Five of the six snowiest winters have occurred since then.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Gov. Nixon tours Mississippi River flooding | ksdk.com

We have arrived at a defining moment for the progressive movement in this nation.

The New York Times editorial board, which has generally given this president a lot of leeway throughout his career, wrote a scathing denunciation Friday of the Obama administration’s use of data mining, claiming that “the administration has now lost all credibility” on the issue of balancing civil rights with national security.

Every progressive with even a shred of moral consistency should side with the New York Times against the White House.

Progressives, Democrats must stand with New York Times against Obama on NSA phone records collection

Secrecy of surveillance programs blunt challenges about legality – The Washington Post

Apparently they feel that they never should have gone after Nixon.

Romney Regrets ’47 Percent’ Remark

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval

“The Obama administration has been very aggressive about bullying and threatening anybody who thinks about exposing it or writing it or even doing journalism about it, and it’s well past time that come to an end,” he said.

Greenwald also told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the administration has taken a “warped and distorted” view of the PATRIOT Act, the legislation that authorized certain kinds of surveillance for security reasons in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“What the Obama administration is doing in interpreting the PATRIOT Act is so warped and distorted and it vests themselves with such extremist surveillance powers over the United States and American citizens that Americans, in their words, would be stunned to learn what the Obama administration is doing,” he said on CNN’s “The Lead.”

Glenn Greenwald: U.S. wants to destroy privacy worldwide – Katie Glueck – POLITICO.com

An IRS agent in the embattled Cincinnati office is lashing out at the agency’s managers for pinning the blame on them for the targeting of conservative groups, describing one official’s attempt to pass the blame as a “nuclear strike on us.”

IRS worker blasts Lerner for blaming Ohio office on targeting, likens effort to ‘nuclear strike’ | Fox News

Those 157 visits to the White House were essential to make plans for the Easter Egg Roll, and required a fifth amendment plea.