Friday, November 6, 2015
Report: US shot at victims fleeing bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital
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Claire Bernish | The full report reads like a horror script and makes indisputably clear that the main hospital was the principal target of the attack
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
Seven Major Takeaways From the U.K.’s Proposed Surveillance Rules
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The British government on Wednesday published a proposed new law to reform and dramatically expand surveillance powers in the United Kingdom. The 190-page Investigatory Powers Bill is thick with detail and it will probably take weeks and months of analysis until its full ramifications are understood. In the meantime, I’ve read through the bill and>>
The post Seven Major Takeaways From the U.K.’s Proposed Surveillance Rules appeared first on The Intercept.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
U.S. Prepares War Against Russia in Syrian Battlefield
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Eric Zuesse On Tuesday November 3rd, U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Laura Seal told The Daily Beast that twelve F-15C air-to-air combat planes are being sent to the Incirlik Turkey Air Base for deployment in Syria against Russia’s Su-30 air-to-air combat planes. Neither the F-15C nor the Su-30 can destroy ground-targets, only air-targets — enemy planes. In other words: U.S. President Barack Obama is telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that unless Putin is willing to go to war against the United...Read more
U.S. Prepares War Against Russia in Syrian Battlefield was originally published on Washington's Blog
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First Grader Suspended for 3 Days for Pretending to Shoot Pretend Arrow
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. Writing in a note that, “I have no tolerance for any real, pretend, or imitated violence. The punishment is an out of school suspension,” the principal of Our Lady of Lourdes elementary school in Cincinnati, Joe Crachiolo, suspended a first grader for pretending to shoot another student with a pretend arrow in a pretend […]
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Even Retailers Suffering As Americans Too Poor to Shop: “Everyone Is Broke Except the 1%”
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
SPEECHLESS
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by Andy Hoffman, Miles Franklin:
Let’s face it. Even the world’s greatest authors get “writer’s block” from time to time. Whether I’m “great” or not is debatable, but I’m certainly amongst the financial world’s most prolific – having not missed a day of writing in at least two years. Between podcasts and articles, I [...]
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More Americans than ever use prescription drugs
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More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs — close to 60 percent of U.S. adults, according to new research. And most seem to be related to obesity, with cholesterol and blood pressure drugs leading the pack, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The single most popular drug is Zocor, a cholesterol-lowering drug in a class called statins, said Elizabeth Kantor, formerly of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and now at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The drug, known generically as simvastatin, is taken by 8 percent of the U.S. population.
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