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#StopWatchingUs: Anti-NSA Rally Attracts Thousands In DC
from usatoday.com: Thousands rallied against NSA’s domestic and international surveillance on Saturday by marching to the Capitol and calling for closer scrutiny of the agency as more details of its spying are leaked. Holding signs that said “Stop mass surveillance,” “Thank you, Edward Snowden” and “No NSA mass spying,” and chanting slogans like “no secret…
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Ohio, West Virginia Residents Sue DuPont Over Teflon Cancer
from ap.org: Nine Ohio and West Virginia residents who have cancer and other diseases have filed federal lawsuits this month against chemical giant DuPont, alleging the company knowingly contaminated drinking-water supplies with a chemical used by one of its plants. The lawsuits, filed Oct. 8 and this week, are among about 50 such cases —…
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#Santorum Says #Satan Controls #Hollywood
from lafiga.firedoglake.com: Rick Santorum spat a frothy mouthful on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, plugging his first foray into film production, The Christmas Candle, due out this holiday season. The movie, from EchoLight Studio, is a period piece set in a Thomas Kinkade-esque village and tackles modernity vs (Christian) tradition as electricity and progressive thinking threaten…
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NSA Site Goes Down Due to Alleged DDoS Attack
from RT.com: The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible. Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the…
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No Tsunami Danger to US After 7.3 Japan Earthquake
from orovillemr.com: The National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami danger for Hawaii, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California following a powerful earthquake off Japan’s east coast. The center says the evaluation is based on information about the quake and historic tsunami records. The magnitude-7.3 quake struck at 10:10 a.m. PDT today,…
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Why Do Kids Kill? Latest School Murders Revive Questions
#Massachusettes killing in same town as Salem witch trials from csmonitor.com: The headlines this week have been unavoidable: •In Massachusetts, 14-year-old Philip Chism sits in jail, charged with murdering Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer and awaiting a grand jury decision about whether he should be tried as an adult. •In Nevada, a 12-year-old boy…
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India’s PM Has No Mobile Phone, Email For NSA To Hack
xfrom ndtv.com: The Prime Minister does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving India “no cause for concern” about new US hacking revelations, his office said on Friday… Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: “The prime minister doesn’t use a mobile phone and he doesn’t have an…
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For First Time, FDA Addresses Pet Food Safety
from cnn.com: For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to make animal feed and pet food sold in the United States safer. A new proposed rule issued Friday aims to protect all animal foods from disease-causing bacteria, chemicals and other contaminants.
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US Spied On 35 World Leaders, Produces “Little Intelligence”
from gulftoday.ae: A widening scandal over US spying on its friends and allies put the fight against terrorism centre stage on Friday as EU leaders called for a new understanding with Washington on intelligence gathering. At the close of a summit overshadowed by the spying row, all 28 EU leaders “stressed that intelligence gathering is…
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Ghostly Shape of ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’ Revealed
from natmonitor.com: The Boomerang Nebula, positioned approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is a somewhat youthful example of a space object called a planetary nebula. According to a news release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, astronomers have spotted the ghostly shape of the Boomerang Nebula, also known as the “coldest place in…
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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FDA Urging Tighter Rein on Painkillers
from nytimes.com: The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, changes that are expected to take place as early as next year. The move, which represents a major policy shift, follows a decade-long debate over whether the widely abused drugs, which contain the…
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Mississippi Baby’s Remission Raises Hope for HIV Cure
from voanews.com: Doctors now have compelling evidence that a newborn girl they treated aggressively for HIV infection may actually be cured. But observers say it is too soon to conclude that early therapy puts the AIDS virus into permanent remission. She is known only as the Mississippi baby, after the southern U.S. state where the…
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Scientists’ Ties to Food Industry Raise Questions in Europe
from nytimes.com: One scientist who advised Europe’s food safety regulators about animal feed additives sits on the board of a foundation backed by the dairy industry. Another who gave advice on food contaminants received research support from lobbyists for the American and European chemical industries. A third scientist who headed an advisory panel on nutrition…
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
from latimes.com: Just 700 million years after the big bang, our most distant known galaxy was a cauldron of star production, churning out new suns hundreds of times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists say. But it was only this spring, roughly 13 billion years later, that astronomers first glimpsed evidence of this…