Friday, December 12, 2014

December 12 News Update

Clock ticks as climate talks grapple with carbon cuts
EU presses for accountability, opening rift at UN climate talks
Peru's melting glaciers a deadly threat as temperatures rise
A Whale Has Done What People Have Not: Stop Tar Sands Oil
Lima climate talks agree on just one paragraph of deal with 24 hours left
Strange Climate Event: Warmth Toward U.S. *


Last Stand Against Pension Cut Deal
Union slams inclusion of trucker rules in funding bill
White House swings behind huge $1.1T spending bill
Hanley: Congress will have 'blood on its hands' if it repeals trucker rest rules
What’s in the spending bill?
Senate to take up $1.1T bill to keep govt running

42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills
California study finds abortion complications very rare
Obama plans to sign Venezuela sanctions legislation
Is China Taking Zimbabwe's Baby Elephants?
Direct Action in the Berry Fields
Will drone warfare one day be branded ‘a stain on our values’?
US attempt to infiltrate Cuban hip-hop is not unprecedented
Hunger, homelessness up in many US cities
Al Jazeera journalist killed in Syria
Nurses at Washington Hospital Center Set One-Day Strike for December 22
San Bernardino Nurses Head to Board of Supervisors Next Week
ATU supports UK transit civil disobedience victory
In 2003, U.S. experts doubted key Iraq war claim: cable
Fidel Castro wins China’s alternative peace prize
China opens key section of massive water project
Oil spill in Bangladesh threatens aquatic animals
Port Union to Meet as Labor Talks Stretch into 8th Month
Study confirms what low-wage workers know: Life is tough


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