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Thousands Of UK Students March In ‘Cops Off Campus’ Protest

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Thousands of students gathered at the University of London on Wednesday to take part in the ‘Cops off Campus’ demonstration. Participants marched through the streets of the British capital to protest against heavy police presence on university campuses.

Demonstrators broke through the Senate House gates on campus. After failed attempts to enter the building, the protesters began their march.

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Italian Riot Police Remove Helmets, Join Anti-EU Protesters

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Remarkable video shows cops in display of solidarity with fellow countrymen.According to EuroNews, Thousands of farmers, lorry drivers, pensioners and unemployed people have taken to the streets in Italy as part of a series of protests against the government and the European Union.Demonstrators stopped train services by walking on the tracks while striking lorry drivers disrupted traffic by driving slowly and blocking roads.A remarkable video shows Italian riot police removing their helmets in solidarity with anti-EU demonstrators in Turin who are protesting against the state of the economy, the single currency and fuel prices.
 
The question remains, will the heavily militarized police in the United States do the same when the time comes? Or will they continue to “Bash some f****** heads”?

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Traditional Farming Techniques Could Help Limit Mass Animal And Plant Extinctions, Experts Say

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By: Reuters, 12/09/2013

OSLO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ancient farming practices, such as raising fish in rice paddies in China or Aboriginal Australian fire controls, will get a new lease of life under plans to slow extinctions of animals and plants, experts said on Monday. Turning to traditional farming is seen as a way of limiting what U.N. studies say is the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago, driven by a rising human population that is wrecking natural habitats.

 

A 115-nation group seeking to protect the diversity of wildlife, which underpins everything from food supplies to medicines, will look at ways to revive and promote indigenous peoples' practices at talks in Turkey from Dec. 9-14. "Indigenous and local knowledge ... has played a key role in arresting biodiversity loss and conserving biodiversity," Zakri Abdul Hamid, founding chair of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), told Reuters.

 

Katie Couric backs off from her anti-vaccine show--but not enough

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Having taken a fair amount of heat from the science-based community for her recent show promoting scare stories about an important immunological vaccine, Katie Couric has backed off.  In a piece appearing Tuesday in the Huffington Post, the TV host conceded that some of the criticism that the segment was "too anti-vaccine and anti-science" was "valid...in retrospect." She acknowledged that "more emphasis should have been given to the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccines."

 

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Pope Francis named Time's ‘Person of the Year 2013’

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Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pontiff, elected nine months ago, was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2013, the magazine revealed on Wednesday.

The iconic title goes each year to the one chosen by prominent US magazine Time as the individual who had the most influence on the world and news over the year.

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Fox News paid former executive $8 mln for silence

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Former Fox News executive Brian Lewis has reportedly been paid $8 million to keep quiet about the inner workings of the secretive news organization.

Back in July, Lewis was fired after having a falling out with Fox News’ chairman Roger Ailes. Lewis was responsible for heading the network’s communications and public relations team, and was widely considered to be Ailes’ right-hand man.

Last week, the New York Times reported Fox had reached a settlement agreement with Lewis, but had difficulty confirming the arrangement with anyone on the record.On Monday, Gawker reported that a Fox News executive “with knowledge of the negotiations” told the publication that Lewis agreed to stay silent for $8 million.

Extensive negotiations followed in the wake of these statements, but while $8 million seems like a significant price to pay to keep someone quiet, the unnamed Fox executive said that if Lewis really had damaging information, he would’ve been paid even more. The source also revealed what could be the real reason for Lewis’ termination.

“That whole financial impropriety thing was complete bullshit,” the executive told Gawker. “Everything was about Gabe Sherman.”

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Denver Legalizes Marijuana For Use On Private Property

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The City Council in Denver, Colorado voted on Monday to permit residents to smoke marijuana on private property, even if others can see them doing so from the street or sidewalk.

According to ABC 7, the council voted 10-3 to allow pot smoking in front yards and balconies two weeks after a measure had passed banning the practice if the drug could be seen or smelled by other residents. The new measure is final, and also bans the possession of marijuana by anyone younger than 21.

Under the new rules, anyone under 21 who’s found possessing marijuana will be fined $150. A repeat offender will be charged with a $500 fine, while each violation thereafter will carry a $999 penalty.

On January 1, 2014, Colorado and Washington will become the first states in America to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. As Denver continues to debate and develop pot regulations, Councilman Charlie Brown said that modifications would continue to be made even after legalization day arrives.

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Russia to cancel Cuba’s $29 billion of Soviet debt

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Russia is going to write off 90 percent of Cuba's $32 billion Soviet-era debt as part of a deal to end a 20-year dispute, according to diplomatic sources cited by Reuters.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to write off the island’s debt during a visit to Havana in February 2013, stressing details would be finalized by the end of the year.

Cuba defaulted on its debt to the Paris Club- a group of the world’s leading economies-Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US – in 1986. Cuba doesn’t belong to any international lending organizations, like the International Monetary Fund.

Cuba’s total exports of goods and services is about $18 billion, but its economy has been pinched by the 50-year trade embargo by the US, which Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has dubbed as "barbaric genocide" against Cubans, who generally live in poverty.

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Uruguay Senate To Vote On Legalizing Sale Of Marijuana

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(FILES) Youngsters wait outside the Parliament building (background) while lawmakers debate the bill legalizing marijuana, in Montevideo, on July 31, 2013. (AFP Photo / Pablo Bielli)

Uruguay is just one step away from becoming the first country in the world to legalize marijuana. On Tuesday, the Senate is to vote on a historic bill that would regulate the production and sale of cannabis for adults at a price of $1 per gram.

The measure is meant as a social experiment aimed at reducing drug-related crime. For over a year, president Mujica, 78, has been actively campaigning for the law that will give the government control and regulatory power over the entire chain from the production and harvesting to the sale and consumption of pot.He has also urged foreign governments to support the move.

“We are asking the world to help us with this experience, which will allow the adoption of a social and political experiment to face a serious problem - drug trafficking,” he said in an interview with Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo. “The effects of drug trafficking are worse than those of the drugs themselves.”

The initiative has stirred up debate within the small South American country. A poll carried out in September found 61 percent of those surveyed do not approve, reported AFP. The bill has also raised questions by some neighboring states like Brazil who fear that Uruguay's cannabis may find its way into their territory – where marijuana is illegal.

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