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To: tejek who wrote (796534)	7/23/2014 7:49:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579707

UN-Backed Conference Calls For Ending Capitalism To Save World From Global Warming… It’s almost like they are using global warming as an excuse to push for the end of capitalism. (GWPF) – A UN-backed conference in Venezuela has ended with a declaration to scrap carbon markets and reject the green economy. The Margarita Declaration was issued at the end of a four-day meeting of around 130 green activist groups, which the Venezuelan government hosted in order to raise the volume of civil society demands in UN discussions on climate change. “The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system,” the final declaration said. “To combat climate change it is necessary to change the system.” The declaration will be handed to environment ministers when they meet ahead of the UN’s main round of talks in Lima this year.

To: tejek who wrote (796534)	7/23/2014 8:52:39 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579707

Senator Says He Had PTSD When He Wrote Thesis .................................................................................................. ABC News ^ \| July 23, 2014 Montana Sen. John Walsh's thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers. The Democrat said Wednesday he was on medication and being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in Iraq when he wrote the paper. He said he also was dealing with the stress of a fellow veteran's recent suicide. Walsh said he made an unintentional mistake and did not intend to plagiarize. "I don't want to blame my mistake on PTSD, but I do want to say it may have been a factor," Walsh told The Associated Press. "My head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment." (Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...