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Flood victim confronts Cruz on climate change
Posted by Denton Record Chronicle: None Given on February 8th, 2016
Denton Record Chronicle: Renee Boschert wanted an audience with Ted Cruz, and she traveled all the way from Texas to New Hampshire to get it.
The 63-year-old from Wimberley, in Central Texas about 260 miles south of Denton, arrived in the Granite State on Tuesday and returned home Saturday, filling the time in between by attending town hall meetings with the U.S. senator from Texas, as well as those of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, two of Cruz’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination....
Surrounded by diamonds, villagers go hungry in drought-hit Zimbabwe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2016
Reuters: Shylet Mutsago, a 63-year-old who lives near the diamond fields of Marange, cannot hide her anger over how mining in this gem-rich part of eastern Zimbabwe has failed to improve the lives of local people. From a distance she watches as companies turn the ground over in search of the alluvial diamonds, releasing clouds of red dust into the sky. "Our hopes of benefiting from the diamonds are gone," she said. "And with this severe drought we are now placing our lives in the hands of God. We are living...
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Comments Off on Surrounded by diamonds, villagers go hungry in drought-hit ZimbabweMark Ruffalo tells Cameron his UK fracking push an ‘enormous mistake’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2016
Guardian: David Cameron is making an enormous “legacy mistake” by going all-out for fracking in the UK, the actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo has warned.
The actor, who is famous for his role as the Hulk in the Avenger films and who stars in Spotlight about the Boston Globe’s investigation into Catholic child abuse, is a prominent anti-fracking campaigner who lobbied successfully for a ban on the controversial technology in New York.
“Mr Cameron, you’re making an enormous mistake, and it’s...
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