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www.fa-mag.com The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote this week on a proposal that would require a floating-share value for the riskiest type of money-market mutual funds, two people briefed on the matter said. The floating-share proposal...
www.democracynow.org The FBI added Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist List today. Shakur becomes the first woman ever to make the list and only the second domestic terrorist to be added to the list. Shakur is a former member of the Black Panther...
roarmag.org Police forced to retreat from Istanbul’s Taksim square as protests against the authoritarian neoliberalism of Erdogan’s proto-Islamist government grow.
news.cnet.com National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too. Read this article by Declan McCullagh...
sustainablog.org Aquaponics is one of those concepts that I've known of peripherally for years, but didn't really give much thought to until I came across plans for The Plant in Chicago. Putting fish and plants together in a closed loop (that's organic...
www.theatlantic.com Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society.
www.npr.org The day marks the end of the allied occupation of the country following its defeat in World War II. The day was an election pledge by the prime minister, who in recent weeks has adopted a more hawkish security stance.
www.guardian.co.uk Comey served as deputy attorney general under George W Bush but supporters say he opposed wiretapping and waterboarding
www.thedailybeast.com Rebel military and civilian leaders from all over Syria came to see McCain, including from Homs, Qusayr, Idlib, Damascus, and Aleppo. Idris led all the meetings.
www.aljazeera.com Fallout from rare strike at Arabtec Construction continues, as many South Asian labourers ordered to leave the country.
phys.org (Phys.org) —A team of entomologists from the University of Illinois has found a possible link between the practice of feeding commercial honeybees high-fructose corn syrup and the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world. The team outlines...
www.guardian.co.uk New book points to devastating effects on health in Europe and US of government cuts
www.buzzfeed.com The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S.
rt.com Millions have taken to the streets across Egypt to demand the resignation of President Morsi on the first anniversary of his inauguration. But Morsi loyalists are staging counter-demonstrations, saying they will defend the leader with all means...
www.huffingtonpost.com From Elizabeth Howell, LiveScience Contributor: The U.S. Northeast is about to be snowed under by cicadas.
thinkprogress.org Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the conservative retired justice who provided the fifth vote to install George W. Bush as president, is now having second thoughts about that decision: Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high...
www.reddit.com It's simple, write 300 words and the most upvoted post I'll read out loud in monologue form. I'm doing this for one of my favorite non-profits
www.kcci.com U.S. intelligence agents have been hacking computer networks around the world for years, apparently targeting fat data pipes that push immense amounts of data around the Internet, NSA leaker Edward Snowden told the South China Morning Post...
venturebeat.com One website benefiting from the panic over government surveillance is private search engine DuckDuckGo, which is seeing record interest.
on.io9.com Talk about your 40-foot perspective: An international team of researchers has put together an absolutely brilliant 3D video map of the nearby universe out to a distance of 300 million light-years. The video is a not-so-subtle reminder of how...
www.wired.com If the government thinks your patent-pending invention has national security implications, it can slap a secrecy order on it that prevents you from developing it. More than 5,300 such orders have been issued, with some of them in effect...
falkvinge.net The Icelandic Pirate Party has entered Parliament. This is clear as about one-tenth of the votes have been counted, and the Pirate Party projected at 6.3% as final result, well above the five-percent barrier to entry.
freejeremy.net Today I pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This was a very difficult decision. I hope this statement will explain my reasoning. I believe in the power of the truth. In keeping with that, I do not...
www.nationofchange.org Democrat, Republican, it doesn’t matter. As long as you can help Monsanto slide its icy tentacles into the food chain, then there’s some financial tip available to you. Thankfully, many such ties can
Kiwis wrap up three-decade long process to pay hundreds of millions to indigenous peoples for colonial injustice.
