World-News: 30 November 2012

The number of American households receiving food stamps jumped nearly 10% in 2011.

http://is.gd/jJR5Kb

Food Stamps To Be Cut Next November

Benefits will decline for every SNAP household. For families of three, the cut likely will be $25 to $30 a month, $300 to $360 a year.

http://is.gd/Qm5kO8

US government spent $80.4 bn on food stamps in 2012

The US government has spent a record USD 80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that helps Americans who cannot afford to buy food.

http://is.gd/0c60Gs

New data show 1 in 4 children in US on food stamps in FY 2011

Approximately 15.5 million additional recipients have been added to the SNAP rolls since the beginning of 2009.

http://is.gd/h51rUk

Over a quarter of US kids on food stamps, under-50s dying young: reports

American health is in decline as new data finds that one in four US kids are on food stamps as of fiscal year 2011 and the younger generation is more prone to death and poorer health levels compared to their counterparts in other developed nations.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-poverty-kids-health-687/

From Information Clearing House

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 09:15

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U.S. Weighs Bolder Effort to Intervene in Syria s Conflict

The Obama administration, hoping that the conflict in Syria has reached a turning point, is considering deeper intervention to help push President Bashar al-Assad from power, according to government officials involved in the discussions.

http://is.gd/i0qpRE

Washington Floats Chemical Weapons Charge as Pretext for Syria Buildup

By Bill Van Auken

The alleged threat from Syrian ''weapons of mass destruction'' is entirely concocted. Not a single piece of hard evidence is cited by any government official or any media source.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33223.htm

Senate orders study on U.S. no-fly zone in Syria

The Senate voted Tuesday to order President Obama to study what military options the U.S. would have if it wanted to get more deeply involved in the revolt against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

http://is.gd/ZWVBS1

From Information Clearing House

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Debating intervention in Syria

In These Times
by Rebecca Burns

11/29/12

The ranks of liberal hawks have swelled in the past two decades in response to atrocities in places such as Rwanda and Darfur. But humanitarian intervention, the doctrine that says the duty to protect civilians trumps state sovereignty and justifies the use of force, has most often been relegated to the realm of the hypothetical. In the murky aftermath of the NATO mission in Libya, humanitarian intervention appears both more probable and more problematic...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14217/intervention_in_syria

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 08:33

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Americans Have Less Access to Justice than Botswanans

By WashingtonsBlog

Among high-income countries, the U.S. ranked near the bottom in access to civil justice...behind Estonia, United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and other countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33176.htm

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 08:28

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A Professionalised Political Elite

By Owen Jones

There are still idealistic young things who have a sense of wanting to rail against injustice. But among them are shamelessly ambitious politicos, too, who d happily trade an aunt on eBay for a Parliamentary seat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33169.htm

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 08:24

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Obama s FCC Set to Give Rupert Murdoch a Media Monopoly

Starmail - 30. Nov, 06:14

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4 Trillion Tons of Ice Melt Raising Seas at Alarming Rate

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/29-6

Burning All the Carbon Will Burn Us All
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/29-1

Rising Waters: 2 Minutes on Disappearing Land
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/12/11-0

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Polar ice sheets melt faster
Wall Street Journal

11/29/12

Higher temperatures over the past two decades have caused the polar ice sheets to melt at an accelerating rate .... The new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, estimates that the melting of the ice sheets as a whole has raised global sea levels by 11.1 millimeters (0.43 inch) since 1992...

http://tinyurl.com/ck69mow

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Projected sea-level rise may be underestimated

Sea-level rise potentially affects millions of people all around the world in coastal areas as well as megacities like Tokyo.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416816936ms347

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 05:53

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Das desorganisierte Verbrechen

Triple Burger and Wonderbra, Coca Cola and sometimes war: Amerika ist kein Land, sondern ein Geschäft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38091/1.html

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Starmail - 30. Nov, 05:52

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