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Coalition of drug policy experts denounces Ottawa's aggressive war on drugs (vancouversun.com)
To kill in the name of God is blasphemy (radiovaticana.va)
Pope Francis says atheists can be good (guardian.co.uk)
Ogallala Aquifer in Texas Panhandle Suffers Big Drop (texastribune.org)
World on course to run out of (fresh) water, warns Ban Ki-moon (guardian.co.uk)
We, the Vast Underclass, Must Rise Up Against Global Mafia - or Die (truth-out.org)
The Collapse of Journalism, and the Journalism of Collapse (truth-out.org)
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy (pewinternet.org)
Bolger tirade and NZ-US security trade (nzherald.co.nz)
Going on with asset sales risky business (nzherald.co.nz)
Selling out the conservation estate (norightturn.blogspot.co.nz)
The rule of law (thestandard.org.nz)
Key not making US-NZ ties (stuff.co.nz)
Travesty of justice not unnoticed (stuff.co.nz)
Poisoned Legacy: Why is the News Media and the Left so bad at defending our freedoms? (thedailyblog.co.nz)
We owe it to ourselves to be outraged (nzherald.co.nz)
Iron Law of Oligarchy (wikipedia.org)
Hostile AI: You're soaking in it! (omniorthogonal.blogspot.co.uk)
Varieties of Online Experience (thefrailestthing.com)
Washington gets explicit: its "war on terror" is permanent (guardian.co.uk)
Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance (guardian.co.uk)
US cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback (reuters.com)
Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters (pressfreedomfoundation.org)
The too-smart city (bostonglobe.com)
Was Operation 8 about Tuhoe Waitangi negotiations? (scoop.co.nz)
Report into Operation Eight finds Police acted unlawfully (scoop.co.nz)
The GCSB And The Lives of Others (scoop.co.nz)
China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 (independent.co.uk)
McDonald's: Wage-thieves (norightturn.blogspot.co.nz)
Who is really responsible for the GCSB shenanigans? (pundit.co.nz)
Drone Strikes on Hackers? (motherjones.com)
CIA Troublemaking in Caucasus (globalresearch.ca)
The Hidden Dossiers Bloomberg Reporters Keep on Powerful Clients (gawker.com)
Lethal Battlefield Robots: Sci-Fi or the Future of War? (motherjones.com)
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us (motherjones.com)
The Programmable Island of Google Being (thefrailestthing.com)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa (expeditionportal.com)
Security turmoil in Libya (ahram.org.eg)
Kicking the tyres from beneath New Zealand (pundit.co.nz)
China's meat block explained (stuff.co.nz)
Was Aaron Gilmore an inside political hit job? (thedailyblog.co.nz)
What Andrew Geddis Said, But Shorter and With More Swearing (publicaddress.net)
The Lies That Bind: National's Attack On Parliamentary Sovereignty (bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz)
GCSB not off the hook: Inspector-General repeats wrong interpretation of the law (thedailyblog.co.nz)
Kiwis lose confidence in safety of private information (nzherald.co.nz)
Surveillance and the Internet of Things (schneier.com)
Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority (agimag.co.uk)
Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome (nytimes.com)
Disability bill demonstrates contempt for due process (nzherald.co.nz)
I think National just broke our constitution (pundit.co.nz)
Unsurprising that the GCSB did not actually break any laws (norightturn.blogspot.co.nz)
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust (nytimes.com)
Bob Jones: NZ should abolish its armed forces (nzherald.co.nz)
Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary (torrentfreak.com)
Two-mile-wide tornado slams Oklahoma City area (cnn.com)
U.S. Spent More on 2012's Extreme Weather Cleanup than on Schools or Roads (sustainableplant.com)
Extreme Weather Drove More Than 30 Million People from Their Homes in 2012 (theatlanticwire.com)
Michigan breaks 160 weather records (abc10up.com)
Ohio had 75 record-breaking weather events in 2012 (wcpo.com)
Groningen gas fields - the Dutch earthquake zone (bbc.co.uk)
What It's Like When A Label Won't Release Your Album (buzzfeed.com)
The autonomous town of Marinaleda, Spain is doing well (independent.co.uk)
How much time is there left to act, before methane hydrate releases will lead to human extinction? (geo-engineering.blogspot.co.nz)
Exploit Sales: The New Disclosure Debate (threatpost.com)
How to make cyberspace safe for human habitation (theglobeandmail.com)
DDoS-for-hire service works with blessing of FBI (arstechnica.com)
What Would it Take to Get to a Steady State Economy? (ourfiniteworld.com)
How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists (commondreams.org)
Welcome to Google Island (wired.com)
"Going Dark" Versus a "Golden Age for Surveillance" (cdt.org)