Trump and Fiorina discuss hacking
By Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE talked about foreign hacking in a Monday meeting, after which Fiorina praised […]
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Major California Drought Could Spell 'Catastrophe' for Nation's Food Supply
A major and unyielding drought in California is causing concern in the nation’s “food basket,” as farmers there say the U.S. food supply could be hit hard if the conditions in their state don’t rapidly improve, Al Jazeera America reports Tuesday. “This is the driest year in 100 years,” grower Joe Del Bosque told Al […]
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Obama's Speech on NSA Reform
President Obama’s speech will outline his proposed changes taken from a White House-appointed NSA review panel which offered 46 recommnedations to overhaul the surveillance agency last year. Given what critics of the NSA understand about what Obama is going to say, expectations are low. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Watch live: _______________________________ Click Here: Golf […]
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'End It': Govt Oversight Panel Calls NSA Spying Illegal
The National Security Agency’s program to bulk collect phone data breaks the law, violates civil liberties, does not make Americans more safe, and should be shut down, according to the federal government’s own watchdog. In a 238-page report obtained by the New York Times and Washington Post, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which […]
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DDT Linked to Higher Risk of Alzheimer's
People with high levels of exposure to the banned insecticide DDT were four times more likely to have Alzheimer’s disease than people with low levels, according to a study of patients in Georgia and Texas published today. The research is among the first to report a connection between Alzheimer’s, which is the world’s most common […]
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Left-Leaning Candidates Continue to Sweep Latin America
Celebrations broke out among left wing supporters across two Central American countries this weekend as elections in Costa Rica and El Salvador showed right wing candidates are increasingly loosing ground, Agence France-Presse reports. “Left-leaning candidates dominated presidential elections in Central America on Sunday, with polls showing El Salvador’s Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Costa Rica’s Luis […]
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'This Ride Is Free' as Protesters Seize Station After Fare Hike
Following Thursday’s announcement by the mayor of Rio De Janeiro that public bus fares would again increase for city commuters, members of the passe libre (free pass) movement staged a raucous march on the main bus station, took it over, and granted everyone free rides on the city buses. As the Guardian‘s Jonathan Watts reports: […]
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Snowden 2.0: Is There a New Active Duty NSA Whistleblower?
Perhaps one of the most striking and revelations about the latest NSA surveillance news story, this one published Sunday by The Bild am Sonntag newspaper in Germany, was that it was based on leaked documents from the now famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. What the paper reported, based on information provided by a “high-ranking NSA […]
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Faithless electors flirt with anarchy
The past few weeks have been full of calls from the Clinton campaign, politicians and other public figures, and many, mostly Democrat, electors themselves demanding that the Electoral College consider activating for the first time in its history its heretofore untested power to reject the vote of the American people. Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art […]
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TEPCO Blasted for Withholding Data as Fukushima Radiation Levels Soar
On the same day that new measurements from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant show an unprecedented surge in one kind of radiation, new charges surfaced Thursday against TEPCO, the plant’s owner, that it has been withholding vital data on a second radioactive substance. Five months ago, measurements taken by TEPCO showed surging levels of the […]
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