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on May 18, 2015 in World News
George Stephanopoulos’ Twitter Explodes with Calls for Resignation
George Stephanopoulos’ Twitter Explodes with Calls for Resignation People ticked off with George Stephanopoulos took to Twitter this week to demand his resignation. With each tweet, there were many responses about his donations to the Clinton Foundation. Here are a few of the best. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/17/george-stephanopoulos-twitter-explodes-with-calls-for-resignation/
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Billionaire Oil CEO Demands Scientists Terminated After Oklahoma Quake Study
Submitted by Tyler Durden Billionaire Oil CEO Demands Scientists Terminated After Oklahoma Quake Study The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers fired. In one of the most transparently oligarchic tactics we have seen yet during this ‘recovery’, oil tycoon Harold Hamm demanded certain scientists be dismissed following their findings that fracking wastewater disposal was the cause of the spike in Oklahoma earthquakes. Despite his protestations recently that “I don’t try to push anyone around,” as the following email obtained by Bloomberg, exposes, “Mr. Hamm is very upset at… View Article
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How Photographing Pollution Became Illegal In Wyoming
How Photographing Pollution Became Illegal In Wyoming By Claire Bernish Taking scenic pictures anywhere outside city limits in the state of Wyoming could now get you thrown in jail. Signed into law in March, the Data Trespass Bill enhances laws against trespassing, but the intent of the bill seems to be clear — protecting polluters from prosecution by criminalizing the collecting of evidence against them. No, it’s not exactly as simple as just snapping a photo, but if you want to “collect resource data” without express consent to do so and you intend to pass it on to a government… View Article
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Canada’s plan to make boycotting Israel a ‘hate crime’ is stupid and counterproductive
Canada’s plan to make boycotting Israel a ‘hate crime’ is stupid and counterproductive The new law would put Jews and civil society groups on trial for anti-Semitism I’ve never been keen on boycotts. The one against Italy for invading Abyssinia didn’t work. Nor did the arms blockade on Spain. I’m still not sure that boycotting South Africa really brought down apartheid. I rather suspect that the old racists simply realised they were hopelessly outnumbered by the blacks of South Africa and that the game was up. And I’m still unconvinced that boycotting Israel, even though it frightens the right-wing crazies… View Article
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Police called after boy, 9, uses a RULER as pretend sword
Police called after boy, 9, uses a RULER as pretend sword in playground game of ‘knights and dragons’ Kyron Bradley waved ruler while at St George’s Bickley in Bromley, London His mother Natasha, 27, from Orpington, met with headteacher about issue But police visited two days later to talk with Year 4 pupil about ‘behaviour’ School spokesman said police routinely visit to assist with ‘pupils involved in or at risk of offending’ By Richard Marsden for the Daily Mail Police were called to a primary school after a nine-year-old boy was caught using a ruler as a pretend sword in… View Article
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TAX MATTERS Overtaxing the rich: A cautionary tale
TAX MATTERS Overtaxing the rich: A cautionary tale by TIM CESTNICK The nice thing about an election year that’s accompanied by federal budget surpluses is that it’s fertile ground for tax cuts – and both the Conservatives and Liberals have promised that tax savings are on the way. But who should really benefit from tax cuts? While it might not seem politically correct to suggest that the rich should get the lion’s share of tax breaks, let me share a story that I first shared many years ago that provides food for thought here. The cost of dinner Each and… View Article
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If You’re Late Paying Bills, We Will Prohibit You From Ever Owning a Firearm…
VA to Veterans: If You’re Late Paying Bills, We Will Prohibit You From Ever Owning a Firearm… By Michael Connelly Since I wrote this article titled “Disarming America’s Heroes” I have been inundated with emails and phone calls from veterans and the families of veterans. The horror stories I am hearing are proof that the VA and the Obama administration have launched an all out assault on the Constitutional rights of our nation’s wounded warriors and other veterans. Veterans are being declared incompetent not because they have a serious mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others,… View Article
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Saudi Arabia to purchase nuclear arms from Pakistan: US Official
Saudi Arabia to purchase nuclear arms from Pakistan: US Official Saudi Arabia has made a “strategic decision” to purchase “off-the-shelf” nuclear weapons from Pakistan, a US official says. “There has been a long-standing agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward,” British newspaper Sunday Times quoted a former US defense official as saying in a Sunday report. “Hundreds of people at [CIA headquarters in] Langley” were trying to discover if Islamabad had already supplied the Persian Gulf nation with nuclear technology or arms, another unnamed US intelligence official… View Article
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The Secret Corporate Takeover
by Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. His most recent book, co-authored with Bruce Greenwald, is&nbs… read more The Secret Corporate Takeover The real intent of these provisions is to impede economy and protect citizens NEW YORK – The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were… View Article
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