The oil barons of the world – and the militaries that rely on that oil – are seeing new opportunities in the North Pole as global climate change kicks into high gear. Warming weather is leading to the Northern ice cap melting – uncovering a treasure trove of oil and natural gas reserves. Scientists believe that the Arctic is storing 13% of the world’s untapped oil – and nearly a third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas.

– but it likely won’t be able to overcome a unified Republican filibuster. President Obama’s proposal would force millionaires and billionaires like Warren Buffet and Mitt Romney to pay at least the same tax rate as working Americans. Currently – America’s super rich take advantage of loopholes created by the Bush tax cuts – and pay far lower rates than even a lot of middle class Americans.

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• The Republicans are lying again...
• Alan Korwin, Bloomfield Press. Debate-Castle Doctrine & Stand Your Ground Laws.
• Dr. Irva Hertz Picciotto, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis.
  

• The tipping point that could unite both parties.
• Dr. Robert Zubrin, The New Atlantis.