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www.guardian.co.uk • Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011' • Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days • Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata
www.examiner.com China launches $600 car that will get 258 mpg This $600 car is no toy and is ready to be released in China next year. The single seater aero car totes VW
inhabitat.com The DOJ and State of Arkansas are suing ExxonMobil over emails showing they lied about the contamination of Lake Conway from the Mayflower spill.
www.messynessychic.com It was built for stockbrokers and bankers in their thousand dollar suits to make million dollar deals, but for nearly two decades it has held the less impressive title of the world’s tallest squat. Welcome to the Centro Financiero...
www.salon.com Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world’s third-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech...
uk.reuters.com ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis announced on Wednesday the creation of a special commission to review the activities of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank to ensure that it operated in harmony with the mission
www.japantimes.co.jp It is one of the most unusual evolutionary ideas ever proposed: humans are amphibious apes who lost their fur, started to walk upright and developed big brains because they took ...
slashdot.org The powerful, reliable combination of transistors and semiconductors in computer processors could give way to systems built on the way electrons misbehave, all of it contained in circuits that warp even the most basic rules of physics.
www.wired.com Take a peek inside DCSNet, the FBI's nationwide eavesdropping network. It's far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected. And it's growing.
www.globalresearch.ca Since the US led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Golden Crescent opium trade has soared. According to the US media, this lucrative contraband is protected by Osama, the Taliban, not to...
www.guardian.co.uk Exclusive: McDonald's sued green activists in long-running David v Goliath legal battle, but police role only now exposed
www.aljazeera.com Protesters stand silently and read books in central Istanbul, in stark contrast with scenes of violence.
creativetimereports.org As the G8 discusses the widespread use of tax loopholes and havens, media artist Paolo Cirio advocates for more participatory tax reforms.
aje.me Explosions and gunfire mark assault on building in the heart of Kabul where a conference was due to take place.
www.japantimes.co.jp What makes people happy? The global trend toward quantifying happiness certainly got a big boost from Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom that has championed and made a cottage industry out ...
rt.com Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office in a sex-for hire case.
hackersnewsbulletin.com Hackers are able to watch victims through their laptop webcams. The practice - known as 'Ratting' (for 'Remote Administration Tool') - is a variation of...
www.surveymonkey.com Dear Reader, Twenty-seven years ago, in the October/November 1986 issue of Utne Reader, we published the following survey, “Have You Given Up?” We wanted to know what our readers--the cutting edge of America’s opinion leaders and...
www.guardian.co.uk How does it feel to discover the father of your child doesn't exist? Or that the man you live with has a wife and children? Four women deceived for years by undercover policemen tell their stories. By Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
www.mymodernmet.com Las Vegas, Nevada Lightscapes is an experimental work by London-based designer Troy Hyde that takes satellite images of some of the most lively cities in the…
uk.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would bar President Barack Obama from providing military aid to Syria's rebels, saying the administration has provided too little
www.guardian.co.uk Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal
rt.com The co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been sentenced to two years in prison for hacking into the computers of a firm that administers data for Swedish authorities, and for making illegal online money transfers.
libcom.org We’re beginning to suspect that it’s only against voting itself that people continue to vote. Nothing we’re being shown is adequate to the situation, not by far. From out of Argentina, the specter of Que Se Vayan Todos is beginning to seriously...
www.miamiherald.com The former senator has accused the FBI in court papers of failing to inform Congress about a possible Florida connection to the attacks on 9/11.
