Archives for General News
May 2015
Sunday, May 31:
Key Parts of Patriot Act Expire Temporarily as Senate Moves Toward Limits on Spying
Senate Moves Toward Limiting N.S.A. Bulk Data Collection
Massachusetts, Utah join other states that got accidental anthrax from military lab
Egypt begins demolition of deposed President Mubarak's HQ
Texas set to legalize openly carrying handguns (2 comments)
New Yorker Magazine: "Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House" (5 comments)
Tel-Aviv Gay Pride festival may secure long, lasting, self-sustaining peace in the middle-east!
Kerry hurt in bike accident; rest of Europe visit canceled
Former CEO of Lehman Brothers to Conference Questioner: "Why Don't You Bite Me?" (1 comments)
Saturday, May 30:
Joseph R. Biden III, Vice President's Son, Dies at 46
Rand Paul Vows To Block Patriot Act Extension (3 comments)
Israel Wants $4.5B a Year in U.S. Aid
Joan of Arc, President Obama, and The Dark Ages (5 comments)
How President Obama Violates Covey's 1st Behavior of Trusted Leaders in His Crusade to Pass Fast Track! (1 comments)
Friday, May 29:
New York City Book Expo = Book Exposure (10 comments)
Thursday, May 28:
Bernie Sanders to Billionaires: 'You Can't Have It All!'
Michael Klare: Superpower in Distress (2 comments)
Wednesday, May 27:
Why Fast Track Driven Partnerships, TPP, TTIP Etc., are Microcosms of the Corruption Suppressing the 99%. (1 comments)
Poll: Bernie Sanders Gains Ground in New Hampshire (1 comments)
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut: Artificial Ingredients Getting Booted (1 comments)
Don't Fall for These Food Front Groups (7 comments)
Banyamulenge Tutsi Refugees Just Want to Go Home (2 comments)
Tuesday, May 26:
Four Words That Imperil Health Care Law Were All a Mistake, Writers Now Say (6 comments)
John Feffer: Why the World is Becoming Un-Sweden
Monday, May 25:
Oklahoma residents lose belongings to flood, but thankful they are alive (5 comments)
"A Road to Character:" the perfect Coda to a long Journey
Sunday, May 24:
Endangered Elephants to Mandarin: I'd Rather Stay At the Ritz
Israel Backing ISIS (10 comments)
Here's Everything You Need To Know About Obama's Trade Deal In One Short Speech (1 comments)
Insurers Push For Major Rate Boosts For Obamacare Users (7 comments)
Saturday, May 23:
Republicans Have Passed 0 Jobs Bills During Their First 138 Days Running Congress (10 comments)
Ireland votes by a large margin to legalize gay marriage
Michael Brelo, Cleveland Patrolman, Found Not Guilty In Deaths Of 2 Unarmed Suspects (2 comments)
U.S. in $1.9 Billion Arms Sale to Israel Amid Iran Deal Concerns (1 comments)
Nuclear Experimentation: Year 70 - Playing with M.A.D.ness (2 comments)
Obama Takes Unexpected Setback On Trade Agenda As Fast Track Passes Senate
Senate Advances Fast-Track For Obama Trade Deals
Isis 'Controls 50% of Syria' After Seizing Historic City of Palmyra
Friday, May 22:
BP Makes Jokes While Wildlife Still Dies From Its Oil Spill (5 comments)
Loretta Lynch: "I Am Very Concerned" For Americans If A Key Section Of The Patriot Act Expires (6 comments)
First Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails Captures Concerns Over Libya
Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister: "This Land Is Ours"
Sandy Hook Exclusive: Never Before Seen Police Dash Cam Footage (28 comments)
Four cancer charities scammed $187 million in donations (1 comments)
Princeton Study:U.S.No Longer An Actual Democracy! (8 comments)
Thursday, May 21:
Clinton Foundation reveals up to $26 million in additional payments
Suspect in quadruple killings worked for victims' family business, police say
Grand Jury Advances Case Against Six Officers in Death of Freddie Gray
Get Ready: Protesters Vow to 'Flood the System' for Climate and Planetary Justice (1 comments)
Sanders to Make Presidential Aspirations Official in Vermont Next Week
Mike Huckabee Will Skip The Iowa Straw Poll
California Prostitute Pleads Guilty to Killing Google Exec
Franklin P. Lamb: The Battle to save Palmyra shifts to the UN
Rand Paul speaks 11 hours against Patriot Act renewal
Dahr Jamail: The Navy's Great Alaskan "War"
Cop Didn't Ask If Mercedes 'Was Stolen': Mom's Facebook Post About Helpful Trooper Goes Viral
Brazil blogger known for reporting on corruption found decapitated (2 comments)
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy (71 comments)
McDonald's Workers Swarm HQ to Demand $15 Wage
Wednesday, May 20:
Gov. Bobby Jindal's executive order: NY call for travel ban signals potential backlash (1 comments)
Five big banks to plead guilty to currency, interest rate manipulation, pay billions in fines
LA becomes largest US city to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour
TPP Could 'Undermine Health of Web' Say 250+ Tech Companies and Digital Rights Groups
Finally! Some climate crisis honesty: Forget About a 2C Future; It Will be 4-6 Degrees Centigrade, and Soon (15 comments)
Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15
Boy Shoots Through Window, Kills Friend Trying to Wake Him
The Current Political Condition (2 comments)
Israel announces -- then scraps -- plan for separate Palestinian buses
21,000 gallons of crude oil leaked near Santa Barbara County beaches
Exclusive: House Benghazi panel subpoenas former Clinton White House aide
Tuesday, May 19:
White Supremacy Goes To The Very Top Of The NRA (28 comments)
Takata expected to recall nearly 34 million vehicles, biggest in history
McConnell vows to pass trade bill
Lawyer: Trial of Post reporter held in Iran set to begin next week
Texas Governor Prohibits Cities And Towns From Banning Fracking (1 comments)
The State Department will wait until January 2016 to release Hillary Clinton's emails
Engelhardt: Tomorrow's News Today
Monday, May 18:
Buckle up, California--scientists predict you're about to ride one hell of a long heat wave
Canadian tribe refuses $960 million pipeline "perk" (2 comments)
Hacker says he commandeered a plane (7 comments)
Gyrocopter Pilot Flew for Reform, Might Land in Prison (1 comments)
The CIA is dropping Burmese bombs on China (10 comments)
Nick Turse: One Boy, One Rifle, and One Morning in Malakal
A Blueprint for Greece's Recovery within a Consolidating Europe -- Brussels Keynote
Sunday, May 17:
Amtrak Service to Resume Between New York and Philadelphia
Police: 9 dead in Texas shooting involving rival biker gangs (1 comments)
'People Have the Power to Bring About Change' (3 comments)
Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
Canadian Finance Minister Confirms Sen. Elizabeth Warren View of the Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement Threat (ISDS) (1 comments)
Why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev May Never Make It To The Death Chamber (1 comments)
Rock Hurling Is Old Nemesis of Train Crews (3 comments)
Saturday, May 16:
Morsi sentenced to death in Egypt
Bernie Sander's Political Revolution, an Idea Whose Time has Come (7 comments)
New Report Regarding Use of Midazolam for Executionst: Oklahoma Misleads the Supreme Court
ISIS Official Killed in U.S. Raid in Syria, Pentagon Says
Friday, May 15:
CODEPINK Joins International Women Peacemakers for Historic Korea DMZ Crossing
Wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter found in Nepal; no survivors
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing (1 comments)
Franklin P. Lamb: Protecting & Restoring Syria's Trains as Part of Her Cultural Heritage
Pope Francis: Powerful People Don't Want Peace Because They Profit from War (2 comments)
Stephen Hawkings Warns That Artificial Intelligence May Get Out Of Control (8 comments)
Legendary Blues Musician B.B. King Dead At 89
College Student to Jeb Bush: "Your Brother CREATED ISIS" (2 comments)
Thursday, May 14:
Senate unveils defense budget, plan to avoid Obama veto (1 comments)
Benghazi Chair Delays Hillary Clinton Testimony Because He Doesn't Have Enough Docs
General Stanley McChrystal Says Iran Is "Obviously" A Rational Actor
David Cameron Unleashes Frightening Attack on "Tolerance" Through Proposed Extremism Laws (1 comments)
Republican Loving Media Shamed As Publisher Forced To Make Revisions To Clinton Cash
Ethicists propose solution for US organ shortage crisis -- ScienceDaily (1 comments)
World population-food supply balance is becoming increasingly unstable -- ScienceDaily
Plastic pollution devastating the world's oceans -- ScienceDaily
William Astore: America's Mutant Military
Russ Feingold Looks To Take Wisconsin Back From The Kochs With 2016 Senate Run
Veterans Affairs improperly spent $6 billion annually, senior official says
GOP Appropriators Cut $250 Million of Grants for Amtrak in Wake of Derailment (2 comments)
Shell Clears Major US Government Hurdle for Arctic Drilling
Why Afghan Women Carried a Funeral Casket for the First Time in Memory
Wednesday, May 13:
House approves measure ending NSA bulk phone data collection program
Vatican recognizes state of Palestine in new treaty
Ukraine crisis: Kerry has "frank" meeting with Putin
North Korea executes defense chief with an anti-aircraft gun: South Korea agency (5 comments)
Antarctic ice shelf is thinning from above and below -- ScienceDaily (1 comments)
U.S. beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15 -- ScienceDaily (4 comments)
"The big banks have issued a threat, and it's up to us to fight back" -- Senator Elizabeth Warren (3 comments)
Gov. CHris Christie Blew $300k on Food and Booze
Christianity in sharp decline in America, poll shows (10 comments)
Tuesday, May 12:
Amtrak Train Crashes in Philadelphia, Injuring Several (7 comments)
Pope: God Will Judge You on Whether You Cared for Earth (2 comments)
U.S. Marine Helicopter Supporting Earthquake Relief Missing in Nepal
Let's be clear: The brutal death of Natasha McKenna was not an accident
Senate Democrats vote to block Obama on trade
George Zimmerman involved in shootout in Florida (21 comments)
The Jewish Billionaire Behind a New Christian Anti-Iran Group (1 comments)
Ann Jones: Citizen's Revolt in Afghanistan
Scotland's construction industry could benefit from SNP's anti-austerity landslide
Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York
Monday, May 11:
Security Breech Horror at the Office Supply Store
George Zimmerman suffers minor injuries in shooting incident, attorney says (10 comments)
Saudi King, Most Gulf Rulers To Skip U.S. Summit (1 comments)
In Talks With Merkel, Putin Calls for Improving Relations With Europe
Bernie Sanders Says He Can Beat Hillary Clinton (1 comments)
Obama's Pacific Trade Push Faces a Senate Vote This Week
Three hardball questions for Obama regarding Fast-Tracked TPP being the 'most progressive trade agreement in history' (3 comments)
Tsipiras to Fire Bank Of Greece Boss For 'Underming Syriza Position' (2 comments)
Sunday, May 10:
Bernie Sanders Says He Can Beat Hillary Clinton (1 comments)
McConnell defends support of Patriot Act, NSA program (1 comments)
Do Animal Advocates Have an Agenda or Are US Farms as Bad as They Say? (6 comments)
Saudi Arabia Says King Won't Attend Meetings in U.S.
The Countdown in Syria (2 comments)
Chinese Soldiers March in Red Square Parade
Attorney: Spy chief had "forgotten" about NSA program when he misled Congress (4 comments)
Franklin P. Lamb: Return to Yarmouk Martyr's Day
Saturday, May 9:
Swedish Fishing Trawler "Marianne" Leaves Sweden for Gaza Flotilla
Santorum: Bomb ISIS "back to the 7th Century" (1 comments)
Egyptian court: Hosni Mubarak can go free
Polls in UK Election "Inexplicably" in Error? (4 comments)
Psychologist's 'Crazy' Idea Is Now Ending Homelessness (1 comments)
Friday, May 8:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Americans prefer gay pres. candidate over evangelical (3 comments)
Utah students demand evidence from professor after he signs absurd letter in same-sex marriage case (2 comments)
Jeb Bush Names Brother George as His Most Influential Counselor (1 comments)
Record global carbon dioxide concentrations surpass 400 parts per million in March 2015 -- ScienceDaily (3 comments)
Jeb reportedly considers George W. Bush a top foreign policy adviser
Lindsey Graham looking at June 1 to announce White House run, sources say - Katie Glueck - POLITICO
FBI Sent Warning About Texas Shooters Hours Prior
NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal, U.S. Appeals Court Says (1 comments)
We Will Solve Todays Problems With A Different Level of Consciousness That Created Them (1 comments)
Quantifying Peace: The Most Peaceful Nations (11 comments)
Cameron on track to remain prime minister after electoral triumph
Thursday, May 7:
Justice Department to launch federal investigation of Baltimore police (2 comments)
FBI admits to using surveillance planes above Baltimore protests
Independent Study Finds That Every Republican Prediction About Obamacare Was Wrong (4 comments)
Syria's Assad Says He's "Not Worried" Despite Battlefield Setbacks
Two US Citizens Participate in Iranian Peace Boat to Stop Saudi Attacks on Yemen (1 comments)
Senate Easily Passes Iran Nuclear Bill (1 comments)
Cutting Carbon Dioxide Saves 3,500 US Lives a Year
Did Jeb Bush invest taxpayer money in porn?
Forget Tanks. Russia's Ruble Is Conquering Eastern Ukraine (6 comments)
Nomi Prins: Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks
Wednesday, May 6:
Ancestry.com Caught Sharing Customer DNA Data With Police: Meet the Mormons!
Not Even New Jersey Republicans Want Chris Christie To Be President (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton to Court Donors for Super PAC (1 comments)
Benjamin Netanyahu Clinches Israel Coalition Deal (2 comments)
This Means War (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton Backs Path to Citizenship for Immigrants (3 comments)
Court: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Not Illegal
Humor-- Rail Rage A growing Social Problem (1 comments)
Baltimore Burning. Foreseen in the Data.
Bernie Sanders To Introduce Bill To Break Up The Big Banks
The Kabbalist and AG Loretta Lynch (4 comments)
Tuesday, May 5:
White House Moves Closer To Major Executive Action On Overtime Pay
Texas Senate OKs ban on abortion coverage in health insurance
Israel's Foreign Minister Snubs Netanyahu Coalition Invite
Texas police were warned about ISIS attack TWO DAYS days before shootout (1 comments)
Michael Gould-Wartofsky, The New Age of Counterinsurgency Policing (1 comments)
TX Republican Lawmaker Wants Women To Carry Nonviable/Deceased Fetuses To Full Term (6 comments)
Monday, May 4:
New York police officer dies after being shot in head
Carly Fiorina Announces She's Running For President In 2016 (1 comments)
Sanders Calls For "Political Revolution"
Israeli veterans say permissive rules of engagement fueled Gaza carnage
Engelhardt: Counting Bodies, Then and Now
Israel's Lieberman says won't join new government
Holy Trinity of whistleblowers: Statues of Assange, Snowden and Manning unveiled in Berlin (VIDEO) (1 comments)
Sunday, May 3:
Two Suspects Killed, Guard Shot "Draw Muhammad" Contest in Texas
Carson tells TV station he'll seek Republican presidential nomination
Franklin P. Lamb: Will Lebanese Allies Open the Gates to Fight Hezbollah?
Death toll from U.S.-led strike rises to 52 civilians in Syria (1 comments)
In Baltimore, National Guard Pullout Begins as Citywide Curfew Is Lifted
WikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets (1 comments)
Israeli leaders don't meet with Jimmy Carter during Middle East visit (3 comments)
Baltimoreans Celebrate Charging of Officers--But Say It's Just First Step (12 comments)
F.E.C. Can't Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says (1 comments)
John Roberts Basically Thinks It's OK When Politicians Just Do What Wealthy Donors Say
George Soros May Face $7 Billion Tax Bill (3 comments)
Saturday, May 2:
Chuck Schumer Warns Obama His Trade Agenda Is Dead Without A China Currency-Manipulation Crackdown (1 comments)
Republicans, in South Carolina, united in attacks on radical Islam (1 comments)
As Planet Warms, One in Six Species Face Total Extinction: Study (1 comments)
Anti-Science GOP 'Eviscerates' NASA Spending on Climate Change Research (2 comments)
NASA Pushes Back Against Proposal To Slash Climate Budget
Royal baby: Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby girl (1 comments)
Friday, May 1:
Super El Nino Likely as Huge Warm Water Wave Hits West Coast, Extreme Marine Die Off Developing (1 comments)
Key Christie ally pleads guilty to role in Bridgegate, two others indicted
Republicans pass deep spending cuts, aim at Obamacare (5 comments)
6 Baltimore Police Officers Charged in Freddie Gray Death (1 comments)
Maryland Cop Lobbyists Helped Block Reforms Just Last Month (3 comments)
SCOTUS Should Find Okla. Execution Drug Protocol Unconstitutional, Say Anesthesiologist and Law Prof
Mega, Giga, Tera: Inside the Biggest Investment Boom in History