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SHARE Sunday, November 3, 2013 Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo
A 5.0 earthquake was registered on Japan's east cost in a prefecture neighboring Fukushima. It comes as a top Japanese politician called for acknowledgement of the fact that some Fukushima evacuees would never be able to return to the area. Sunday's tremors were felt as far away as Tokyo, but no casualties or damage reports were released at the time.
SHARE Sunday, October 27, 2013 With Assad in, and Ahmadinejad out, where does that leave Netanyahu?
If war in Iran is the endgame, as many observers suspect it is, then Israel's objectives in the region have been seriously upset by Obama's flip-flopping on the question of military action in Syria. That is because in the event that Israel -- unilaterally or otherwise -- decides to launch any sort of pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, it will certainly not want its flanks exposed to Syrian and Hezbollah forces.
SHARE Saturday, October 26, 2013 "Time To Reform Surveillance State": Massive "Stop Watching Us" Rally Challenges NSA Spying
The Stop Watching Us rally comes as 21 countries, including US allies France and Mexico, have joined talks to hammer out a UN resolution that would condemn "indiscriminate" and "extra-territorial" surveillance, and ensure "independent oversight" of electronic monitoring.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, October 25, 2013 Fukushima Whistleblower Exposes Yakuza Connections, Exploitation Of Cleanup Workers
The cleanup has a upcoming operation in November. Any mistake could result in a catastrophe bigger than Chernobyl, says Christopher Busby, an expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation and Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk. The combined radioactive yield of the fuel rods is more than that of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 24, 2013 Occupy "Pepper-Spray Cop" Awarded $38k Settlement
UC Davis agreed to spend roughly $1 million to compensate current and former students who became victims in the Nov. 2011 incident, dishing out $30,000 settlements apiece to 21 plaintiffs, and another $6,666 to 15 others that stepped up later. The deal reached between UC Davis and Pike's attorneys will award him a larger settlement than any of those targeted in the attack.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 23, 2013 "Unacceptable": Merkel calls Obama over suspicion US monitored her cell phone
In June, during Obama's visit to Berlin, Merkel said she was surprised by the scope of the American data collection efforts, but admitted that Germany was "dependent" on cooperation with US agencies. She said that it was thanks to "tips from American sources" that an Islamic terror plot in Germany was foiled in 2007.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Losing faith: Global financiers look to de-Americanize
A US debt default could hit on Thursday, and world leaders are second guessing the dominant role America plays in finance. Regardless of the final decision in Washington, confidence and credibility in the US has already eroded. The country that has long provided a sturdy backbone to the global economy is now teetering on a mass default.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Greenwald quits Guardian for independent news project
Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who was one of the first journalists to break the NSA surveillance story, is leaving the British newspaper for a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity." He pointed out that his plans were leaked prematurely, so he is unable to reveal any more information at this time.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 8, 2013 "Aggressive and insidious": More details of Canada spying techniques to follow, Greenwald promises
Brazilian-US relations have also been ruined by the recent leak, with Rousseff postponing a state visit to Washington in response to the US spying on her communications with top aides. Rousseff has demanded a full public apology from President Obama. However, no such apology has been made
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 5, 2013 Intel union: Spy agency heads won't roll with US and UK allied
he only protection against a slide towards totalitarianism is a free media that allows a free transfer of ideas between people without the need to self-censor. The global US military-security complex is embedded into the DNA of the internet. We cannot rely on the USA to voluntarily hand back the powers it has grabbed.
SHARE Thursday, October 3, 2013 Monsanto buys big data weather company to boost yields and profit
In the three quarters preceding August, the company lost $249 million -- exactly 20 million more than the same time last year. While being an industry leader, Monsanto has been the subject of a great number of lawsuits from farmers and social discontent revolving around its development of genetically-modified seeds, as well as policies that take away from farmers' pockets.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Greenwald: "The objective of the NSA is literally the elimination of global privacy"
Snowden's documents have shown how the US government collects phone records for millions of Americans, compiles the Internet habits of innocent citizens and an array of other activity that has caused international backlash abroad and prompted lawmakers in the States to propose legislation aimed at reforming the NSA.
SHARE Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Snowden urges EU parliament to protect whistleblowers
Edward Snowden has been nominated for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Snowden is wanted in the US on espionage charges, after leaking secret documents revealing the US surveillance program PRISM used to gather private data. In August, he was granted temporary asylum in Russia, where he currently resides.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 30, 2013 New Snowden leak: NSA is monitoring the Internet histories of millions of Americans
New NSA documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden suggest the NSA is collecting information on the Internet habits of millions of innocent Americans never suspected of criminal involvement, without issuing search warrants or opening investigations into people. The information is obtained using a program codenamed Marina.
SHARE Sunday, September 29, 2013 No. 2 US nuke chief suspended over gambling probe
The general in charge of all US nuclear offensive forces has suspended his deputy, Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, over his suspected role in a casino scandal that involved "a significant monetary amount" of counterfeit gambling chips. Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler suspended Giardina on September 3 without publicly announcing the move.
SHARE Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Former FBI agent to plead guilty in AP leak case
A former FBI agent has agreed to plead guilty to divulging secret government information about a supposed bomb plot in Yemen to the Associated Press, the US Department of Justice said Monday.
Donald John Sachtleben agreed to a sentence of three years and seven months for the leak, as part of a plea agreement filed in the US District Court in Indiana. A separate sentence for unrelated child pornography charges was included.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 15, 2013 Endless Fukushima catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under contamination threat
Scientific estimates predict that the radioactive plume travelling east across the Pacific will likely hit the shores of Oregon, Washington State and Canada early next year. California will probably be impacted later that year. Because the ongoing flow of water from the reactor site will be virtually impossible to stop, a radioactive plume will continue to migrate across the Pacific for many decades.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 14, 2013 McCain baffles Russian communists promising to respond to Putin's op-ed in Pravda
McCain's spokesman Brian Rogers said that McCain "would be glad to write something for Pravda, so we'll be reaching out to Dmitry with a submission." He said McCain would most likely want to address such issues as democracy and human rights in Russia, "and certainly Putin's regime aiding and abetting of the Syrian regime, which has killed 100,000 of its own people."
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 9, 2013 "CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria"
According to our information, is that the President is being given cooked-up intelligence because John Brennan, the head of the CIA, and James Clapper, the confessed perjurer, have thought it in their best interests to cater to the wishes of the White House, which have been very clear: "this time, we want to strike Syria." It's a terrible situation, it's a political sort of thing now.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 5, 2013 US Congress speaker refuses to meet Russian delegation
The speaker of the US House of Representatives has turned down a proposal to meet with Russian MPs to discuss the situation in Syria. The Duma members plan to visit Washington next week to persuade their American counterparts not to attack Syria. But Russian MPs plan to pay a visit to the Capitol Hill anyway and are currently busy verifying who exactly will be in the delegation.