The Environmental Protection Agency is obliged under the Clean Water Act to monitor America’s waterways and shield them from the toxic runoff from factory farms. But the growth of that industry, and its courtroom tenacity, has far outstripped the E.P.A.’s efforts to restrict runoff from manure lagoons and feedlots.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/opinion/the-epa-backs-off-on-factory-farms.html?_r=2&

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/06/why-im-not-running-for-congress/

Snowden: ‘Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped’ ‘Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American’

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/17-1

http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/caruba16.1.html

http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul864.html

Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease | True Activist.

Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, Its Currencies | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig reflects on the NSA controversy and lays out his plan for comprehensive campaign finance reform.

http://soundcloud.com/smileyandwestshow/lawrence-lessig

Whatever your take on recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the resulting cost to our privacy — and more so, our democracy? Lawrence Lessig joins Bill to discuss the implications of our government’s actions.

via Big Brother’s Prying Eyes – YouTube.

http://rt.com/news/weed-killer-urine-european-study-720/