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Russia: U.S. Global Missile Plans Render Nuclear Reduction Offer Voi by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
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Russia Links Nuclear Cuts With U.S. Missile Shield, Prompt Global St by "Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
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Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:47 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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http://en.ria.ru/russia/201306
Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 19, 2013
Russia Skeptical Over Obama’s New Nuclear Reduction Proposal
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"How can we take seriously this idea about cuts in strategic nuclear potential while the United States is developing its capabilities to intercept Russia's nuclear potential?”
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MOSCOW: Russian officials on Wednesday expressed doubts over new nuclear arms reductions proposed by US President Barack Obama in light of US global missile defense plans and attempts by other counties to boost their nuclear arsenals.
Obama said in a speech in Berlin earlier Wednesday that he would negotiate to cut another one-third of US and Russian nuclear arsenals and seek “bold reductions in US and Russian tactical weapons in Europe.”
Shortly before Obama’s speech, Yury Ushakov, senior foreign policy adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the Kremlin had been informed in general about the new US proposal but reiterated Russia’s position that other nuclear powers would have to make steps on further nuclear arms reduction in order for Obama’s plan to work.
“The situation now is not like in the 1960s and 1970s, when only the United States and the Soviet Union held talks on reducing nuclear arms,” Ushakov told reports in Moscow.
"Now we need to look more broadly and expand the circle of participants in possible contacts on this matter," he said.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was even more brazen in his response, saying Russia could not “take seriously” Obama's nuclear cuts proposal while the United State was developing its missile defense system.
"How can we take seriously this idea about cuts in strategic nuclear potential while the United States is developing its capabilities to intercept Russia's nuclear potential,” Rogozin told reporters in St. Petersburg.
Rogozin, who oversees Russia’s defense industry, said an arms race involves both offensive and defensive weapons in a vicious circle.
“To show the lack of understanding of this [by proposing further nuclear cuts] – means either openly lying, bluffing and deceiving, or demonstrating a deep lack of professionalism,” Rogozin said.
Russian independent military experts on Wednesday also described Obama’s initiative as “unrealistic” saying it could potentially destroy the existing nuclear parity and ultimately hurt Russia’s national security interests.
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Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 19, 2013
Russia Skeptical Over Obama’s New Nuclear Reduction Proposal
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"How can we take seriously this idea about cuts in strategic nuclear potential while the United States is developing its capabilities to intercept Russia's nuclear potential?”
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MOSCOW: Russian officials on Wednesday expressed doubts over new nuclear arms reductions proposed by US President Barack Obama in light of US global missile defense plans and attempts by other counties to boost their nuclear arsenals.
Obama said in a speech in Berlin earlier Wednesday that he would negotiate to cut another one-third of US and Russian nuclear arsenals and seek “bold reductions in US and Russian tactical weapons in Europe.”
Shortly before Obama’s speech, Yury Ushakov, senior foreign policy adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the Kremlin had been informed in general about the new US proposal but reiterated Russia’s position that other nuclear powers would have to make steps on further nuclear arms reduction in order for Obama’s plan to work.
“The situation now is not like in the 1960s and 1970s, when only the United States and the Soviet Union held talks on reducing nuclear arms,” Ushakov told reports in Moscow.
"Now we need to look more broadly and expand the circle of participants in possible contacts on this matter," he said.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was even more brazen in his response, saying Russia could not “take seriously” Obama's nuclear cuts proposal while the United State was developing its missile defense system.
"How can we take seriously this idea about cuts in strategic nuclear potential while the United States is developing its capabilities to intercept Russia's nuclear potential,” Rogozin told reporters in St. Petersburg.
Rogozin, who oversees Russia’s defense industry, said an arms race involves both offensive and defensive weapons in a vicious circle.
“To show the lack of understanding of this [by proposing further nuclear cuts] – means either openly lying, bluffing and deceiving, or demonstrating a deep lack of professionalism,” Rogozin said.
Russian independent military experts on Wednesday also described Obama’s initiative as “unrealistic” saying it could potentially destroy the existing nuclear parity and ultimately hurt Russia’s national security interests.
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:01 am (PDT) . Posted by:
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"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects...
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http://en.rian.ru/world/201306
Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 20, 2013
Moscow Links More Nuclear Cuts to Missile Defense - Minister
ST. PETERSBURG: Russia-US strategic nuclear arms cuts cannot be pursued without also addressing missile defense systems, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
Strategic stability is affected by the role of defense systems, in particular “the US plans to build non-nuclear weapons” which will be “far more effective than the existing strategic nuclear arms,” he said in an interview with Rossia-24 TV.
Further cuts in nuclear weapons can only be discussed in a multilateral, not bilateral format, with the participation of other nuclear powers, Lavrov said.
In a wide-ranging speech Wednesday in Berlin, US President Barack Obama said he has concluded after “a comprehensive review,” that the United States can cut its deployed strategic nuclear weapons by one-third while still ensuring the nation’s security. “And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures,” Obama said.
Lavrov also said the US review of its missile defense program for Europe does not address Russia’s concerns because “the system remains global” and its components “are being deployed along the perimeter of our borders.”
Russia and NATO formally agreed to cooperate over the European missile defense system at the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, but talks foundered, in part over Russian demands for legal guarantees that the system would not undermine its strategic nuclear deterrent. In mid-March, the US announced that it was modifying its planned missile defense deployment to Poland, dropping plans to station SM-3 IIB interceptors in the country by 2022.
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Interfax
June 20, 2013
Russia to take time to thoroughly analyze Obama's arms cuts proposal - diplomat
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"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects...
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MOSCOW: Russia will thoroughly examine U.S. President Barack Obama's proposals on more radical cuts of nuclear weapons, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We will coordinate our reasons with our objectives in ensuring our national security and strengthening peace. Analysis will be interdepartmental and will take some time," Ryabkov said in an interview published in Kommersant on Thursday.
Asked what factors Moscow will take into account in making its decision, Ryabkov pointed out that "the notion of strategic stability today significantly differs from concepts that existed in the past."
"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects, and refusal of a number of countries to take part in key arms control agreements, he said.
"Without taking all these circumstances into account, it is wrong to talk only about the role of nuclear weapons as a factor affecting strategic stability," he said.
Some media outlets reported that the U.S. expects a reply from Moscow before a Russian-U.S. summit in Moscow in September.
Obama proposed on Wednesday that the U.S. and Russia further reduce their strategic nuclear weapons.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov suggested on Thursday that other countries possessing nuclear weapons should be engaged in nuclear arms reductions after the implementation of the New START treaty.
"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects...
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http://en.rian.ru/world/201306
Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 20, 2013
Moscow Links More Nuclear Cuts to Missile Defense - Minister
ST. PETERSBURG: Russia-US strategic nuclear arms cuts cannot be pursued without also addressing missile defense systems, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
Strategic stability is affected by the role of defense systems, in particular “the US plans to build non-nuclear weapons” which will be “far more effective than the existing strategic nuclear arms,” he said in an interview with Rossia-24 TV.
Further cuts in nuclear weapons can only be discussed in a multilateral, not bilateral format, with the participation of other nuclear powers, Lavrov said.
In a wide-ranging speech Wednesday in Berlin, US President Barack Obama said he has concluded after “a comprehensive review,” that the United States can cut its deployed strategic nuclear weapons by one-third while still ensuring the nation’s security. “And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures,” Obama said.
Lavrov also said the US review of its missile defense program for Europe does not address Russia’s concerns because “the system remains global” and its components “are being deployed along the perimeter of our borders.”
Russia and NATO formally agreed to cooperate over the European missile defense system at the 2010 NATO summit in Lisbon, but talks foundered, in part over Russian demands for legal guarantees that the system would not undermine its strategic nuclear deterrent. In mid-March, the US announced that it was modifying its planned missile defense deployment to Poland, dropping plans to station SM-3 IIB interceptors in the country by 2022.
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http://www.interfax.com/
Interfax
June 20, 2013
Russia to take time to thoroughly analyze Obama's arms cuts proposal - diplomat
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"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects...
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MOSCOW: Russia will thoroughly examine U.S. President Barack Obama's proposals on more radical cuts of nuclear weapons, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We will coordinate our reasons with our objectives in ensuring our national security and strengthening peace. Analysis will be interdepartmental and will take some time," Ryabkov said in an interview published in Kommersant on Thursday.
Asked what factors Moscow will take into account in making its decision, Ryabkov pointed out that "the notion of strategic stability today significantly differs from concepts that existed in the past."
"Apart from the role of nuclear weapons and issues related to the ceilings in the nuclear arms area," the Russian leadership will also take into account the missile defense situation, the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons, the possibility of deploying weapons in space, to which Moscow categorically objects, and refusal of a number of countries to take part in key arms control agreements, he said.
"Without taking all these circumstances into account, it is wrong to talk only about the role of nuclear weapons as a factor affecting strategic stability," he said.
Some media outlets reported that the U.S. expects a reply from Moscow before a Russian-U.S. summit in Moscow in September.
Obama proposed on Wednesday that the U.S. and Russia further reduce their strategic nuclear weapons.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov suggested on Thursday that other countries possessing nuclear weapons should be engaged in nuclear arms reductions after the implementation of the New START treaty.
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Brian Bennett Los Angeles Times 2013-06-20 15:03:00
During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI. Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed. Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3. | |
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Cybelle Clements "Overall Repression on Media in Turkey"guardianlv.com/ 2013-06-14 12:22:00
Hayat TV (Life TV), a Turkish channel broadcasting extensive live coverage of the ongoing protests in Taksim Square and Gezi Park, Istanbul, has been ordered to shut down. Regulators have ordered the broadcast to cease at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, June 14 due to a licensing issue; however, Hayat TV asserts this is a pretext to force closure of their broadcast of the protests. In an open letter published today by blog EUObserver.com (which reports on events in the Arab world), Mustafa Kara, TV Broadcast Coordinator for Hayat TV, asks readers to "support freedom of press" and spread news of the closure (which the station hopes to reverse). The letter reads in its entirety: Suppression of media within Turkey (TV channels there initially continued to broadcast a documentary on penguins and a cooking show instead of early coverage of the protests) left many Turkish citizens in the dark about the events as they developed, hearing of them instead through social media and word of mouth. Outrage against this and other government handling of Taksim has fueled the ongoing protests. And with Turkish authorities warning earlier today that they'll raid Taksim Square within 24 hours, it does appear curious timing to restrict live broadcasts of the events. | |
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Glenn Greenwald Guardian 2013-06-19 10:54:00
Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise Since we began began publishing stories about the NSA's massive domestic spying apparatus, various NSA defenders - beginning with President Obama - have sought to assure the public that this is all done under robust judicial oversight. "When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he proclaimed on June 7 when responding to our story about the bulk collection of telephone records, adding that the program is "fully overseen" by "the Fisa court, a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch, or government generally, is not abusing them". Obama told Charlie Rose last night: The GOP chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, told CNN that the NSA "is not listening to Americans' phone calls. If it did, it is illegal. It is breaking the law." Talking points issued by the House GOP in defense of the NSA claimed that surveillance law only "allows the Government to acquire foreign intelligence information concerning non-U.S.-persons (foreign, non-Americans) located outside the United States." The NSA's media defenders have similarly stressed that the NSA's eavesdropping and internet snooping requires warrants when it involves Americans. The Washington Post's Charles Lane told his readers: "the government needs a court-issued warrant, based on probable cause, to listen in on phone calls." The Post's David Ignatius told Post readers that NSA internet surveillance "is overseen by judges who sit on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court" and is "lawful and controlled". Tom Friedman toldNew York Times readers that before NSA analysts can invade the content of calls and emails, they "have to go to a judge to get a warrant to actually look at the content under guidelines set by Congress." | |
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Fars News Agency 2013-06-19 17:51:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin said chemical laboratories in Iraq are producing chemical weapons for the terrorists in Syria, confirming a detailed report by Far News Agency (FNA) last month which said former Ba'ath regime officials are involved in the production and procurement of such weapons to the Syrian terrorists. "We know that Opposition Fighters were detained on Turkish territory with chemical weapons," Mr. Putin told a press conference in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland after meeting the leaders of the industrialized nations in a G8 Summit. "We have information out of Iraq that a laboratory was discovered there for the production of chemical weapons by the opposition. All this evidence needs to be studied most seriously," he continued. Putin questioned the credibility of allegations by the US, UK and France that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's forces had used chemical weapons, and attributed equivalent horrors to the forces supported by the West. | |
Comment: And there we have it directly from UN human rights investigators. Obama's red line has been crossed, by none other than the Al-Qaeda troops the US, UK and France are now supporting, not by Syrian forces. For more info, check out: Syria: WMD Redux | |
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RT.com 2013-06-19 20:05:00
Employees of Bank of America say they were encouraged to lie to customers and were even rewarded for foreclosing on homes, staffers of the financial giant claim in new court documents. Sworn statements from several Bank of America employees contain a number of damning allegations, the latest claims entered as evidence in a multi-state class action lawsuit that challenges the bank's history with foreclosures. According to testimonies obtained by journalists at ProPublica, supervisors at various Bank of America branches across the United States encouraged employees to regularly deny loan modification applications with no reason. At times, they were told to make up excuses to customers who risked losing their homes. In one of the sworn statements, an ex-bank staffer said he would be directed to deny upwards of 1,500 loan modification applications at a single time with no apparent reason. | |
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RT.com 2013-06-19 19:55:00
Former investigators of the TWA Flight 800 airplane crash have revealed that an explosion came from outside the plane, thereby contradicting the government's conclusion that the fatal crash was an accident. The investigators claim they were silenced from telling the truth by their superiors, and were forced to conclude that the 1996 crash was an accident sparked by a fuel tank explosion. In a new EPIX film called "TWA Flight 800", the former National Transportation Safety Board investigators communicate their beliefs that an outside explosion was responsible for the deadly crash that occurred nearly 17 years ago, killing all 230 people on board. The documentary film revolves around the crash of the Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-131 that exploded and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York on July 17, 1996. The plane had been en route from New York to Paris, but went up in flames over the Atlantic Ocean, just 12 minutes after take-off from John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were no survivors, and some speculated that the plane might have been the target of a terrorist attack. | |
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Kristan T. Harris CudahyNow 2013-06-19 19:42:00
Hypothetical: "Can I have an extra 2 years to pay my $7,000 in back property taxes Uncle SAM?" Response: "No. We are going to take it from you tomorrow. Oh, by the way. and we misplaced $28,000 dollars of your money. See you tomorrow." The Federal Reserve has kinda, sorta misplaced $9,000,000,000,000 as shown by a recent video surfaced on you tube (see video below). Your tax money is being stolen. No one at the federal reserve is keeping track of what happened to 9 trillion dollars. With black budgets and under the table deals can we just guess where all the money has gone? Into the pockets of the Bilderberg fortune 100 attendees. We provided detailed evidence the organization exists with actual documents from their conference recently released to us! Read the documents at Unusual Bilderberg Documents Uncovered at Georgetown University. So thats $28,125 roughly stolen from every American citizen. Its time for a class action lawsuit . The Federal Reserve is private isn't it? | |
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Masha Volynsky Cesky Rozhlas 2013-06-20 15:56:00
A fire at an electrical substation left many Prague's residents without power on Tuesday night. The blackout did not cause any direct injuries, but left some stranded in lifts or without a way to get home. At around 10:30 pm on Tuesday, almost half of the capital - in the eastern central and southern regions - lost power. For some, the electricity came back on after a few minutes, but most remained in darkness for an hour to an hour and a half. Some buildings were also left without running water. The reason was a massive fire at an electrical substation in the southern Chodov district. Some 60 tons of oil ignited causing a loud explosion and fierce blaze. Officials at the ČEPS company, which manages power distribution, presume that the explosion was caused by damage to the porcelain electrical bushing in the transformer. Vladimír Tošovský, chairman of the board of directors of ČEPS: "This is not an unusual defect. It happens. The last time this happened in the Czech Republic was in 2009 in Vyškov, when a similar transformer burnt down. On the other hand, this transformer is not very new, it is 15 years old. It is now completely destroyed and we will have to build a new one." | |
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Kamila Hinkson The Star 2013-06-15 14:56:00
The story of Nicole Sauve, who found 400-year-old bones in her Point Edward backyard, was ordered to hire an archaeologist, and is now saddled with a $5,000 bill. A Sarnia couple who set out to build a fence dug up more than they bargained for recently when they unearthed a 400-year-old skeleton and got stuck with a $5,000 bill from the province. The archeological misadventure began two weeks ago when Ken Campbell came across some bones while digging post holes in their backyard. He put them aside, thinking they must have belonged to an animal. The following week, his wife, Nicole Sauve, asked about the bones, which sat unceremoniously atop a bucket of earth "I said, 'They're not animal bones, Ken. Let's dig some more and see what we can find,' "she said. What they found was the rest of the skeleton of an aboriginal woman. | |
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Joseph Lichterman Reuters 2013-06-19 14:49:00
The latest search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended on Wednesday in a field near Detroit, where federal agents had dug with heavy equipment and shovels for three days in the hope of answering the decades old question, "Whatever happened to Jimmy Hoffa?" Since Monday, 40 agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Michigan state police and Oakland County sheriff's office, and forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University had combed an acre of the overgrown field not far from where Hoffa was last seen alive in 1975. "We did not uncover any evidence relevant to the investigation on James Hoffa," Robert Foley, head of the FBI's Detroit office, told reporters. "Of course we're disappointed." The search for Hoffa, who was 62 when he disappeared and is thought to have been killed by members of organized crime, has become near mythical, providing fodder for rumors, books, and movies, including 1992's Hoffa, starring Jack Nicholson. Law enforcement officials decided to search the field after reputed mobster Anthony Zerilli, 85, told the FBI Hoffa was buried there. When Hoffa disappeared, the property was owned by a man Zerilli said was his first cousin. Zerilli is the son of former reputed Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli. | |
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C J Hughes In a move that may enrage those who enjoy a cigarette on their couch after work, but delight air-freshener-wielding neighbors, a major landlord has banned smoking in all of its apartments across the country.New York Times 2013-06-13 09:32:00 As of this month, the Related Companies has decided that tenants can no longer light up in the 40,000 rental units it owns or manages. The edict, which builds on an effort that began for Related with a handful of its New York buildings in 2009, is meant to create healthier living conditions, company officials said.
It also seems likely to create controversy. Where past efforts against smoking have focused on public gathering places - like bars, stadiums and courthouses - Related is now trying to prohibit legal private behavior. Not that smokers will get kicked to the curb right away. New tenants must sign a contract promising not to smoke anywhere in the building, including their private terraces or balconies. If they break the rules, they can be evicted. But those already renting will not face the same fate until after they renew their leases and sign the no-smoking contract. With a turnover rate of 10,000 a year, Related's apartments could conceivably be smoke-free in a few years' time. Critics point out that tenants could always lie about their habit, and hide it successfully. Also, it can be very difficult to evict tenants - especially those whose rents are regulated, as they have strong protections and guaranteed lease renewals. | |
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Kris Betts KVUE News Austin 2013-06-19 12:58:00
Liberty Hill -- Vinny is German Shepherd with a bullet wound on the back of his neck. On Monday, a Leander police officer shot Vinny when he says the dog and another German Sheppard came running at him while trying to serve a warrant. "He said they were growling, and closing distance very quickly," said Lt. Derral Partin, a spokesperson for Leander Police. However, Vinny's owners Renata and Chris Simmons, say Vinny has never acted aggressively. "This dog wasn't after him. This dog was just running up going 'hey what are you doing?' and they have a right to do that. This is my yard; this man should not have even been there. He could have killed my husband's best friend," said Renata Simmons. | |||
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Yahoo! News 2013-06-20 00:00:00
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers. LeaseWeb said in a statement it hosted the data for over a year at its own expense without receiving any requests to access it or retain it before deciding the time had come to use the servers for other purposes. But Dotcom said in a series of Twitter posts that his lawyers repeatedly asked LeaseWeb to keep the data pending U.S. court proceedings. Dotcom said that millions of users' personal files had been lost in the "largest data massacre in the history of the Internet." | |
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guardian 2013-06-18 00:00:00
Erdem Gunduz - dubbed 'standing man' - stages eight-hour vigil and is joined by 300 people during silent protest A Turkish man has staged an eight-hour silent vigil in Istanbul's Taksim Square, the scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. Erdem Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square, the Dogan news agency reported. He stood silently, facing the Ataturk Cultural Centre which was draped in Turkish flags and a portrait of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, from 6pm on Monday. | |
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Megan Gannon LiveScience 2013-06-20 15:37:00
An entire Maya city full of pyramids and palatial complexes has been discovered in a remote jungle in southeastern Mexico, archaeologists report. Covered in thick vegetation, the ruins were found in Campeche, a province in the western Yucatán peninsula that's littered with Maya complexes and artifacts. The newfound site is dubbed Chactún and it stretches over roughly 54 acres (22 hectares). Researchers think the city was occupied between during the Late Classic Maya period, from roughly 600 A.D. until 900 A.D., when the civilization mysteriously collapsed. "It is one of the largest sites in the Central Lowlands, comparable in its extent and the magnitude of its buildings with Becan, Nadzcaan and El Palmar in Campeche," archaeologist Ivan Sprajc said in a statement from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). | |
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Stephen C. Webster Raw Story 2013-06-20 14:33:00
Thomas "Beau" Walker, the great-great-great grandfather to U.S. President George W. Bush, was a notorious slave trader who either personally led or heavily invested in expeditions to kidnap Africans from their homeland and bring them to America as slaves, a journalist and historian announced this week. Word of the presidential ancestor came by way of retired journalist and genealogist Roger Hughes and historian Joseph Opala, who illustrated their findings to Slate. They made the discovery by comparing the signatures of known Bush ancestor Thomas Walker with a notorious slave trader of the day who bore the same name. Stacked side-by-side, the signatures looked almost exactly the same. They also recovered several letters Walker wrote, in which he complains about the cost of the people he's kidnapped. "Times on the coast is by no means as favourable as I expected," Walker reportedly wrote. "Slaves is at the price of 150 [illegible] and the coast seemes [sic] to be lin'd with vessels of all kind." "I have purchased seventeen fine negroes and am this day proceeding down the coast to try what I do can there," another of Walker's letters reads. "Slaves is at a very greate [sic] price." There were at least two other known slave-owners in the Bush family, according to Hughes. | |
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Megan Gannon LiveScience 2013-06-19 15:21:00
In Shakespeare's England, many kids were coerced into acting careers not by stage moms but by "child catchers," new research shows. Elizabethan-era boy players were prized in adult theater companies for their prepubescent looks and high-pitched voices, which allowed them to act in female roles alongside men. But some boy players were put into all-children acting troupes, and not all of them voluntarily; rather many were systematically exploited and abused, according to an Oxford University scholar. While writing his new book Shakespeare in Company (Oxford University Press), Bart van Es found that child catchers seized young boys on their way to school, handing them over to theater company bosses that forced the kids to perform on stage or else face whipping. Van Es even found documents that show Queen Elizabeth I herself signed commissions allowing theaters to kidnap children, he said. "Technically these warrants were designed to allow the Master of the Children to 'take up' boys for service in the Chapel Royal," which was a group of priests and singers established to serve the British monarchy, van Es explained. "But the reality was very different. It was well known that the Children of the Chapel Royal was really an acting company, and the Queen did nothing to intervene," van Es said in a statement. | |
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Jon M. Chang Yahoo! News 2013-06-20 00:00:00
Remember when Tupac made an appearance at last year's Coachella festival? It wasn't really Tupac but a holograph of the late rapper. The holograph wasn't like watching a regular 3D TV image. You didn't need glasses, it was viewable to the entire audience, no matter what angle they were watching at, and it wasn't just a projected two dimensional image. It looked like Tupac was really on stage. The engineers of the Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, led by V. Michael Bove Jr. and his graduate student Dan Smalley, are working on technology that might enable that experience in your living room. The group is aiming to make true holographic videos not only a reality, but an affordable reality. Sure, there have been other types of glasses-free 3D screens and devices, including the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system or various 3D TVs shown by Vizio and Toshiba, but those have suffered from poor viewing angles, causing the image to be distorted when you move off the right or left. They also aren't considered true holograms. | |
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Fairewinds Energy Education 2013-06-12 00:00:00
"When do the risks of a technology become untenable?"
About This Podcast After two weeks of traveling, Arnie is back in town to recount his adventures on this week's podcast. His first trip was to Canada to testify about the Pickering Nuclear Plant on Lake Ontario. His second trip was to southern California to speak at the conference "Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Lessons for California" alongside former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, former NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, and former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford. While Arnie was in California, we received the news that the San Onofre Nuclear Plant near San Diego was closing permanently. So, what happens at San Onofre now? Comment: Listen in, and find out. | ||
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| Earth Changes |
The Extinction Protocol 2013-06-20 08:38:00
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital but apparently causing no major damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 17:29 p.m. local time and its epicenter was about 60 kilometers (37 miles) east-north-east of Los Andes, Chile. Officials discarded the possibility of a tsunami and said there were no immediate reports of deaths or damages. Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. A magnitude-8.8 quake and the tsunami it unleashed in 2010 killed more than 500 people and destroyed 220,000 homes. - ABC | |
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Yahoo! News 2013-06-20 00:00:00
Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore's main measure for air pollution, surged to a record reading of 371, breaching the "hazardous" classification that can aggravate respiratory ailments. The previous all-time high before this week was in 1997, when the index reached 226. The hazardous reading lasted three hours before easing to 253 in the evening, still "very unhealthy." Smog fueled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Singapore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week's conditions has strained diplomatic ties. Officials in Singapore say Jakarta must do more to halt fires on Sumatra island started by plantation owners and farmers to clear land cheaply. "This is now the worst haze that Singapore has ever faced," Singapore's Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan wrote on his Facebook page. "No country or corporation has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans' health and wellbeing." The haze has shrouded the city-state's skyscrapers in a pall of noxious fumes and posed numerous inconveniences for Singaporeans, some of whom complained of coughs and covered their faces with handkerchiefs while walking outdoors. | |
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Charles Q. Choi OurAmazingPlanet 2013-06-19 08:27:00
Arrays of sensors stretching across more than 1,500 miles in Africa are now probing the giant crack in the Earth located there - a fissure linked with human evolution - to discover why and how continents get ripped apart. Over the course of millions of years, Earth's continents break up as they are slowly torn apart by the planet's tectonic forces. All the ocean basins on the Earth started as continental rifts, such as the Rio Grande rift in North America and Asia's Baikal rift in Siberia. The giant rift in Eastern Africa was born when Arabia and Africa began pulling away from each other about 26 million to 29 million years ago. Although this rift has grown less than 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) per year, the dramatic results include the formation and ongoing spread of the Red Sea, as well as the East African Rift Valley, the landscape that might have been home to the first humans. "Yet, in spite of numerous geophysical and geological studies, we still do not know much about the processes that tear open continents and form continental rifts," said researcher Stephen Gao, a seismologist at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo. This is partly because such research has mostly focused on mature segments of these chasms, as opposed to ones that are still in development, he explained. | |
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| Health & Wellness |
Sebatian A. B. The American medical system is corrupt, ineffective and unnecessarily costly. These outcomes are due to state violence on behalf of the politically connected elite (namely private insurers, physicians, pharmaceutical and medical device companies). Artificial scarcity, price-gouging, misallocation of research funding and the suppression of alternative (non-patentable) therapies can be ameliorated by revoking state-conferred elite privilege and re-establishing cooperative, mutualized healthcare financing.c4ss.org 2013-06-20 09:54:00
"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now." Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17, 157 - 61 Grocery Insurance The essential problem with medical financing is described by the Grocery Insurance analogy - third party payment (nominally "private" insurers or the state) divorces price from cost, distributes responsibility, suppresses competition and puts upward pressure on prices: when your insurer only requires a small deductible for each trip to the supermarket, you will probably buy a lot more caviar, filet mignon and white truffle oil. Likewise, the seller will raise prices. When someone else pays, the seller and the buyer do not have antagonistic interests; the seller wants to charge higher prices and the buyer does not care. Ultimately, costs are externalized. Insurance companies are unscrupulous in their efforts to contain costs, deny coverage and swindle customers (as a matter of necessity) - despite it all, costs are aggregated within the insurance fund and redistributed in the form of higher premiums for everyone. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and the insurance model is based on trying to eat yours. The state, as disorganized as it is, has less incentive to ruthlessly minimize costs, but immense waste is written off as necessary humanitarian spending. The state suffers diseconomies of scale, bureaucratic inertia, lacks incentive to economize and by its nature the state is centralized and prone to corruption. Hospitals, drug companies and doctors take advantage of the inept Panopticon by price gouging, pushing drugs and executing unnecessary procedures. Thus, the two-pronged system of unaccountability drives healthcare costs in one direction - up. Meanwhile, tax and premium-payers are gouged with nowhere to turn - to the point at which 17% of U.S. GDP and 23% of the Federal budget is spent on sick care. Nobody should blame sick people for the broken system; they operate within very narrow constraints, especially lack of access to healthy food, clean water, accurate medical information and they endure unsafe working conditions. Claiming that people are hedonistic free-riders is facile. Few will make healthy choices because of the specter of future medical costs; they do so to avoid contracting a disease. The problem is that there are few choices, period, and they're all unhealthy. | |
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Cari Nierenberg LiveScience 2013-06-20 13:04:00
In the largest outbreak ever reported in the U.S. of blastomycosis, a fungal infection with flulike symptoms, 55 people in central Wisconsin became sick in 2010. The fungus that causes blastomycosis is commonly found in soil, but exactly what triggered the spike in cases in Marathon County remains a mystery, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Wisconsin health officials. Unlike a blastomycosis outbreak in a neighboring Wisconsin county in 2006, in which a pile of waste in a large yard was the likely source, the culprit in this episode remains elusive. "We didn't find evidence for a single source in the environment that could explain all the cases," said Kaitlin Benedict, an epidemiologist with the CDC's Mycotic Diseases Branch, who was involved in the research. "We think there were probably multiple 'hot spots' for the fungus in several different neighborhoods." It's also unclear why infection rates among Asians, particularly those of Hmong descent, were about 12 times higher than non-Asians, the report said. Some 45 percent of people affected by the outbreak were of Hmong ethnicity. This group is originally from Southeast Asia, but many of those who became sick in the outbreak had been living in Wisconsin for more than a decade, according to the report. The large number of cases among the Hmong was one of the most surprising things about this outbreak, Benedict said. "This is the first known report of Asians being disproportionately affected" by the fungal illness, she said, adding that previous studies have shown high blastomycosis rates among African-Americans in other U.S. states. The report was published online (June 3) in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. | |
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Chris Kresser chriskresser.com 2012-10-05 00:07:00
Beyond just being loaded with "artery-clogging saturated fat" and sodium, bacon has been long considered unhealthy due to the use of nitrates and nitrites in the curing process. Many conventional doctors, and well-meaning friends and relatives, will say you're basically asking for a heart attack or cancer by eating the food many Paleo enthusiasts lovingly refer to as "meat candy". The belief that nitrates and nitrates cause serious health problems has been entrenched in popular consciousness and media. Watch this video clip to see Steven Colbert explain how the coming bacon shortage will prolong our lives thanks to reduced nitrates in our diets. In fact, the study that originally connected nitrates with cancer risk and caused the scare in the first place has since been discredited after being subjected to a peer review. There have been major reviews of the scientific literature that found no link between nitrates or nitrites and human cancers, or even evidence to suggest that they may be carcinogenic. Further, recent research suggests that nitrates and nitrites may not only be harmless, they may be beneficial, especially for immunity and heart health. Confused yet? Let's explore this issue further. | |
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Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety 2013-06-19 22:45:00
The world of meat-eaters got a rude awakening earlier this year when it was found that meat passed off as beef in the U.K. was actually horse meat. But, if you thought meat in the U.S. was safe from secret ingredients, the bliss of your ignorance may soon be shattered. A recent analysis into several different fast food hamburgers found relatively little meat, and a whole host of other "stuff". According to GreenMedInfo, the study was to determine what exactly Americans are eating when they consume their 5 billion hamburgers annually. The burgers, from 8 different fast food establishments, were analyzed by weight and then microscopically for tissue types. Their analysis found that water constituted about half of the weight of the burgers, with water content ranging from 37.7% to 62.4%, with an average of 49%. Meat, what you'd expect to make up the majority of the burgers, was found to be as low as 2.1% in some cases, to the maximum of 14.8% in others. | |
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Lee Rannals Over a thousand pedestrians had to make a trip to the emergency room in 2010 forRedOrbit 2013-06-19 23:17:00
injuries related to using their cell phone and walking. According to a new nationwide study published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, more than 1,500 pedestrians were injured while walking due to cell phone distractions. This number has more than doubled since 2005, even though the total number of pedestrian injuries dropped during that time. The researchers from this study even believe that the number is actually higher than results show. "If current trends continue, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of injuries to pedestrians caused by cell phones doubles again between 2010 and 2015," said Jack Nasar, co-author of the study and professor of city and regional planning at The Ohio State University. "The role of cell phones in distracted driving injuries and deaths gets a lot of attention and rightly so, but we need to also consider the danger cell phone use poses to pedestrians." Nasar and colleagues found that people between the ages 16- and 25-years-old were most likely to be injured from distracted walking, and most were hurt while talking rather than texting. The team used data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) to make the finding. They examined data for seven years involving injuries related to cell phone use for pedestrians in public areas. | |
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Brett Smith RedOrbit 2013-06-19 23:13:00
A new study from the Mayo Clinic on our 'Medication Nation' showed almost 70 percent of Americans are being prescribed at least one prescription drug. According to the study, published in the clinic's own Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal, antibiotics, antidepressants, and opioid painkillers are the top three groups of prescribed drugs in the US. Study co-author Jennifer St. Sauver said the study provides insight into the prescribing habits of doctors, which may or may not be indicative of health trends. "Often when people talk about health conditions they're talking about chronic conditions such as heart disease or diabetes," said St. Sauver, an epidemiologist at the clinic. "However, the second most common prescription was for antidepressants - that suggests mental health is a huge issue and is something we should focus on. And the third most common drugs were opioids, which is a bit concerning considering their addicting nature." In the study, the researchers used information from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a health research collaboration that includes medical records from people living in Minnesota's Olmstead County. According to study authors, the study cohort represented almost 99 percent of those living in the county and the statistics from the project are comparable to those from other US populations. | |
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Sayer Ji Greenmedinfo.com 2013-06-19 19:24:00
"Anyone that says, 'Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,' I say is either unbelievably stupid, or deliberately lying. The reality is, we don't know. The experiments simply haven't been done, and now we have become the guinea pigs." ~ David Suzuki, geneticist Now that the mainstream media is catching on to the public sentiment against GMO food, or at least against unlabeled GMO food, to the tune of millions of Americans who made it a point to drag themselves out of their homes to protest Monsanto last month (as well as at least 40 additional countries), inevitably the indictment will be made: "the anti-GMO movement is "unscientific."" Is that really so? What we do know is that the unintended consequences of the recombinant DNA process employed to create genetically engineering organisms are beyond the ability of present-day science to comprehend. This is largely due to the post-Human Genome Project revelation that the holy grail of molecular biology, the overly-simplified 'one gene > one trait' model, is absolutely false. | |
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Lisa Song InsideClimateNews.org 2013-06-19 12:47:00
ince 2010, at least three ruptured pipelines have spilled oil into U.S. neighborhoods, forcing officials to decide quickly whether local residents would be harmed if they breathed the foul air. But because there are no clear federal guidelines saying if or when the public should be evacuated during an oil spill, health officials had to use a patchwork of scientific and regulatory data designed for other situations. As a result, residents of the three communities received different levels of protection. No houses were evacuated in Salt Lake City, Utah, where a ruptured pipeline leaked 33,000 gallons of medium grade crude oil before it was discovered on the morning of June 12, 2010. The oil ran down Red Butte Creek, past neighborhoods where windows were left open in the summer heat. The fumes, which are known to cause drowsiness, left some people so lethargic that they didn't wake up until after noon. In Marshall, Mich. officials called for a voluntary evacuation after more than a million gallons of heavy Canadian crude spilled into the Kalamazoo River on July 25, 2010. But they agonized over the decision for four days before making that recommendation. In Mayflower, Ark. authorities quickly evacuated 22 families after a broken pipeline leaked about 200,000 gallons of heavy crude on March 29, 2013. But people living in the same subdivision, just a few blocks away, were not asked to leave. Neither were the residents of the lakeside community where the oil eventually pooled and where the cleanup continues today. After each of these spills, people complained of headaches, nausea and respiratory problems - short-term symptoms that health experts say are common after any chemical spill and usually disappear as the air clears. | |
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Kevin Coupe Forbes 2013-06-07 18:45:00
The latest news out of Oregon is that two wheat farms there have filed suit against Monsanto, charging that their businesses have been harmed by the discovery in the state of a field of genetically modified wheat from seeds that Monsanto developed and supposedly discontinued almost a decade ago. At the same time, the Center for Food Safety has filed a similar suit. It is possible that one or both of the suits could achieve class action status. So what do we know? Very little, as it happens. We know that there is a field with wheat that has been grown from genetically engineered seeds. We know Monsanto says it is shocked that this has happened, while cynics (and I'm one of them) believe that Monsanto is shocked like Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) was when he found out there was actually gambling going on at Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca. I'm not going to litigate the whole GMO issue here. For one thing, it would take way too long and would be way too complicated. For another, I'm not nearly smart enough to understand it all, much less explain it. | |
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Adam Hadhazy Scientific American 2010-02-12 17:46:00
The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat. As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of "butterflies" in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our "second brain". A deeper understanding of this mass of neural tissue, filled with important neurotransmitters, is revealing that it does much more than merely handle digestion or inflict the occasional nervous pang. The little brain in our innards, in connection with the big one in our skulls, partly determines our mental state and plays key roles in certain diseases throughout the body. | |
Comment: Learn more about the gut-brain connection and how this important relationship affects our mood, well being and behavior: The Neuroscience of the Gut Brain, heart and gut minds A gut check for many ailments Are Gut Bacteria In Charge? Pay attention to your body's 'second brain' 'Knowing it in your gut' is real": The state of your immune system and your gut bacteria influences your personality The Real Butterfly in Your Stomach: Scientists Explore the Possibility of a "Second Brain" in Our Gut Mind-Gut Connection: Why Intestinal Bacteria May Have Important Effects on Your Brain Link between gut bacteria and behavior: That anxiety may be in your gut, not in your head | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
Stephanie Pappas LiveScience 2013-06-19 16:00:00
Yes, mom may really be pushing you into marching band because she always wanted to be drum major. New research finds that, consistent with what kids may believe, parents really do hope to live out unfulfilled ambitions through their children. Parents are more likely to hope that their child fulfills their own broken dreams when they see their kid as part of themselves, according to the study, which appears online today (June 19) in the journal PLOS ONE. "The child's achievements may come to function as a surrogate for parents' own unfulfilled ambitions," said study researcher Eddie Brummelman, a doctoral psychology student at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. "In this way, a sense of oneness with their children may compel parents to transfer their unfulfilled ambitions on to them. | |
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| High Strangeness |
Christine Bruun Sasquatch Watch© 2013-06-19 00:00:00
It is easy to explain to you what Bigfoot is. It is what we don't know that is troubling. According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary definition, the name Bigfoot is derived "from the size of the footprints ascribed to it." It is known by many other names such as Sasquatch, Swamp Ape, as well as a variety of names used by the Indian tribes of the North American continent. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes it as "a large, hairy human-like creature believed by some persons to exist in the northwestern United States and western Canada. It seems to represent the North American counterpart of the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti." The Britannica goes on to say that a "British explorer David Thompson is sometimes credited with the first discovery (I 1811) of a set of Sasquatch footprints, and hundreds of alleged prints have been adduced since then." It continues by mentioning the Patterson photographs taken at Bluff Creek, California in 19667, referring to it as a legend. | |
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Marc Lallanilla Life's Little Mysteries 2013-06-19 16:43:00
The Marfa Lights, mysterious glowing orbs that appear in the desert outside the West Texas town of Marfa, have mystified people for generations. According to eyewitnesses, the Marfa Lights appear to be roughly the size of basketballs and are varyingly described as white, blue, yellow, red or other colors. Reportedly, the Marfa Lights hover, merge, twinkle, split into two, flicker, float up into the air or dart quickly across Mitchell Flat (the area east of Marfa where they're most commonly reported). There seems to be no way to predict when the lights will appear; they're seen in various weather conditions, but only a dozen or so nights a year. And nobody knows for sure what they are - or if they really even exist at all. The Native Americans of the area thought the Marfa Lights were fallen stars, the Houston Chronicle reports. The first mention of the lights comes from 1883, when cowhand Robert Reed Ellison claimed to have seen flickering lights one evening while driving a herd of cattle near Mitchell Flat. He assumed the lights were from Apache campfires. Ellison was told by area settlers that they often saw the lights, too, but upon investigation, they found no ashes or other evidence of a campfire, according to the Texas State Historical Association. During World War II, pilots from nearby Midland Army Air Field tried to locate the source of the mysterious lights, but were unable to discover anything. | |
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NewStraitsTimes, Malaysia 2013-06-19 19:22:00
Dhaka: Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were forced to offer prayers and distribute food to the poor on Wednesday in a bid to drive out what workers believed was a ghost at the plant, police said. Some 3,500 workers stopped work at the plant in Gazipur, north of Dhaka on Tuesday, and smashed furniture to demand action to remove the ghost, which some workers claimed had attacked them in the ladies' washroom. "The agitating workers refused to join duty and vandalised the factory after the management did not take any steps to drive out the ghost," Gazipur industrial police inspector Showkat Kabir told AFP. Kabir said the owners held special prayers - recitation of the Koran and hymns in praise of the Prophet Mohammed - at the factory and also distributed food among the poor to drive out the "ghost". "All the workers, owners and the managers will join the prayers and the factory will reopen on Thursday after two days of shutdown due to the ghost-related protests," he said. A medical expert said the "ghost attack" could be a sign of psychological distress in the wake of a series of deadly disasters involving garment workers in the past six months. | |
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An anonymous reader writes "At a hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI director Robert Mueller confirmed the agency is using unmanned drones for surveillance within the U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley asked, 'Does the FBI own or...
An anonymous reader writes "At a hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI director Robert Mueller confirmed the agency is using unmanned drones for surveillance within the U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley asked, 'Does the FBI own or...
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malachiorion writes "Does George Lucas hate metal people? I know, sounds like standard click-bait, but I think I present a relatively troll-free argument in the piece I wrote for Slate. We stuck to the Star Wars canon, pointing out the relatively...
malachiorion writes "Does George Lucas hate metal people? I know, sounds like standard click-bait, but I think I present a relatively troll-free argument in the piece I wrote for Slate. We stuck to the Star Wars canon, pointing out the relatively...
From the you-can-trust-us department
Rick Zeman writes "'Confidentiality is critical to national security.' So wrote the Justice Department in concealing the NSA's role in two wiretap cases. However, now that the NSA is under the gun, it's apparently not so critical, according to...
Rick Zeman writes "'Confidentiality is critical to national security.' So wrote the Justice Department in concealing the NSA's role in two wiretap cases. However, now that the NSA is under the gun, it's apparently not so critical, according to...
From the invest-in-apc department
Contributor Tom Geller writes: "I recently wrote an article about Bitcoin and the law for Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. In researching it I ran into plenty of wishful thinkers, ridiculous greedheads, and out-and-out...
Contributor Tom Geller writes: "I recently wrote an article about Bitcoin and the law for Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. In researching it I ran into plenty of wishful thinkers, ridiculous greedheads, and out-and-out...
From the hello-world department
Aardappel writes "Lobster is a new programming language targeting game programming specifically, building on top of OpenGL, SDL 2 and FreeType. The language looks superficially similar to Python, but is its own blend of fun features. It's open...
Aardappel writes "Lobster is a new programming language targeting game programming specifically, building on top of OpenGL, SDL 2 and FreeType. The language looks superficially similar to Python, but is its own blend of fun features. It's open...
From the just-use-ur-web department
First time accepted submitter dougkfresh writes "Checkmarx's research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection. Furthermore, a concentrated research into...
First time accepted submitter dougkfresh writes "Checkmarx's research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection. Furthermore, a concentrated research into...
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| SPIEGEL ONLINE | INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER |
| Compiled on June 20, 2013, 06:07 PM CET |
| Disunited Kingdom Crisis Leaves Britain Deeply Fractured The economic crisis has caused the United Kingdom to drift apart, creating ever-widening rifts between rich and poor, native and immigrant, English and Scot. With the anti-Europe UKIP party on the rise, Great Britain stands at a crossroads. |
| Soccer Fans Revolt Protests Rage on in Brazil Brazil's footballers are celebrating their advancement in the Confederations Cup, but in Fortaleza, their fans continue to protest high ticket prices, corruption and other social issues. The players are left walking a thin line. |
| Climate Expert von Storch Why Is Global Warming Stagnating? Climate experts have long predicted that temperatures would rise in parallel with greenhouse gas emissions. But, for 15 years, they haven't. In a SPIEGEL interview, meteorologist Hans von Storch discusses how this "puzzle" might force scientists to alter what could be "fundamentally wrong" models. |
| Buckling Highways German Autobahns Can't Stand the Heat High temperatures throughout much of Germany Wednesday have caused the country's highways to buckle and rip in many places. A motorcyclist died on Wednesday as a result. |
| World from Berlin Obama Visit Highlights 'Genuine Trans-Atlantic Dissonance' US President Barack Obama managed to achieve his primary goal during his one-day visit to Berlin on Wednesday: charming his hosts. But German commentators argue he was unable to bridge a growing gap between the two countries. |
| Century of Massacres Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting One hundred years ago, a gunman entered a school in Bremen, Germany, and killed five girls in the first-ever mass school shooting. The similarities with the dozens of horrifying attacks that have come since are haunting. |
| Gaff Gone Viral Merkel Mocked for Calling Internet 'Neuland' Chancellor Merkel described the Internet as "uncharted territory" on Wednesday while answering a question about the Prism spying program at an appearance with US President Obama. Now "Neuland" is a fully formed meme, and Merkel's gaff has gone viral. |
| World Heritage Warning UNESCO Says Loreley Bobsleigh a Blight A popular new summer bobsleigh ride located near Germany's famous Loreley is becoming a contentious issue for the Rhine Valley's cultural heritage status. UNESCO is warning that the tourist attraction should be dismantled. |
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| If you have a problem reading this email, please click here to see the web page version You received this email because you signed up for it at OpEdNews. Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of this email. Here's a quicklink that reveals how totally sold out the Democrats really are: TPP is so bad that the Obama administration won't let the American people see it. And after Elizabeth Warren confirmed, with Obama's Nominee, that he would keep it secret, all those wonderful progressive democrats (not) voted to back the guy who introduced Obama to bankster scumbag Robert Rubin. So tell me how wonderful Obama and his corporatist democrats are. I made a typo-- demcorats-- kinda rings true. And we're having a very tough month this month. Please take a moment to make a donation to support our work. Click here to donate today. It's essential for us to do our job. thanks, rob kall Support Opednews. Make a tax deductible donation to make OEN Strong.  Daily HeadlinesIf you own a television or read a newspaper you've probably heard that we need another war because the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Control and dominance are the two words that make sense of what is going on today. These are exercised by political, economic and military designs, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also by insinuating propaganda in the public consciousness. Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked her colleagues to oppose Michael Froman, Pres Obama's pick for US Trade Representative, charging that he is not committed to giving the American public information about theTrans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, which would affect everything from intellectual property rights, to product safety standards, to financial regulations. Many lawmakers criticized the secrecy surrounding the deal; certain members of Congress can see the proposed text of the deal, but the public cannot. Warren has called on the office of the US Trade Representative to release the full text of the TPP deal to the public. But in a floor speech Wednesday, she said Froman has made clear he would not release the text. A terrible formula has taken hold: warfare state + corporate digital power = surveillance state. From day one of his first campaign for President, Barack Obama promised a kinder, more humane treatment of undocumented migrant workers and their families. But his administration has been nothing short of brutal when it comes to his policies. Some of those on the front lines fighting for comprehensive and humane immigration reform have started to refer to Obama as "Deporter in Chief." Government officials are howling with outrage, and calling for Edward Snowden's head. The pundits are livid: how dare this "narcissist" who didn't go to an Ivy League college presume to sit in judgment of his betters! Whatever their disagreements, politicians and talking heads of the left and the right agree: Snowden is a "traitor"! I know the issue of political spying -- and not just because my lawful, nonviolent activism got me spied on by local, state and federal "intelligence" agencies (whose spy files on me were unearthed through successful lawsuits and partly successful Freedom of Information requests). I also spent a dozen years as a journalist, researcher and ACLU lawyer investigating the spies. America has a massive national deficit of nearly $16.9 trillion; it continues to spend money it doesn't have and the problem remains. What's the answer to this dilemma? Many of our esteemed politicians say that, to alleviate the condition, government welfare must be ended. So with that premise in mind let's examine the pros and cons and the depth of this issue. The problem that faces the US in this second term of the Obama presidency is not too many whistleblowers, but rather too few. President Obama is beginning a long slide into oblivion. He can turn things around by serving the people instead of the financial elite. Five programs for a rapid change in his standing with the public. How does the health of a society relate to low wages, emotional disconnection, and a shrinking middle class? From CNN: In writing about the epidemic of violence against women, up-to-date stats like this are essential. I am on the mailing list for the Neighborhood Energy Network, based in New York City. They regularly send out updates, presentation and movie announcements, and activist opportunities, to a large mailing list. This one, their latest, lists many useful sites on Climate Change, including how to deal with deniers. Sunday , July 7, 1963, was the date of my first arrest, among protesters creating a "walk-in" aimed at ending racial segregation at Gwynn Oak amusement park in Baltimore. This coming July 7, 2013 (also a Sunday ) there will be a 50th-anniversary celebration in Baltimore of the desegregation of the park, which followed soon after the arrests. When my son was about 15 months old, he climbed up on a chair. The problem is, while he figured how to get up on the chair, he didn't know how to get down. So he jumped, and he broke his leg. By Gary Brumback Inside the corpocracy: Big pharma and servile government This article begins the second in a series that takes an inside snapshot of American industries along with their control of a servile government. The present article overviews the pharmaceutical industry along with a servile government that supports the industry in various ways. Additional overviews of the other components of the healthcare industry will be written next before going on to other industries. By Hamad S Alomar Counting Up, Counting Down What really matters for me is that at age 60 one has consumed 70-75% of his life. I call this age, the stop-counting-up and start-counting-down age. This never means giving up on life. Not at all. I will enjoy it more. The counting down means something else. The attack line against whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden -- that they should have gone through "proper channels" -- ignores that those oversight channels have been badly corrupted over the past several decades. That has left Americans dependent on out-of-channel leaks. Mohammad Naji Allaw says, "Over 90 of 166 Guantanamo prisoners are from Yemen. Most of them, 56 to be exact, have already been cleared by the US government for release but the US government still won't send them back." By Franklin Lamb WAR BY ANOTHER NAME" The Obama Administration prepares a "Marshall Plan" to reconstruct Syria, but not for the Syrians With respect to Syria, the " equivalent of the Marshall Plan" currently being finalized is very different from what General George |C. Marshall explained to his Harvard University audience, 66 years ago this month, when he announced the post WW II initiative. Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web "ON June 6, at a middle school in Mooresville, N.C., President Obama set a goal of high-speed Internet in nearly every public school in America in five years" but today, " half of Americans don't own a smartphone, one-third lack a broadband connection and one-fifth don't use the Web at all and while 'virtually all of America's schools are connected to the Internet today...the question is quality. Children who go to school in poor neighborhoods are connected to the Web at speeds so slow as to render most educational Web sites unusable... free online courses from great academies is closed to those who lack a digital pathway....Mr. Obama was right to call attention to this problem. A good first step in addressing it would be to overhaul E-Rate to make sure it gets the Web into every classroom and library, not just a school,and with sufficient financing for upkeep" and trained experts. By Dean Baker Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers! Billionaire-backed Campaign Fails to Cut Social Security and Medicare  We should take a moment to celebrate the victory we have achieved. So pick up a glass of the beverage of your choosing and drink a toast to Social Security and Medicare, to the people whose lives they have made more secure, and to the people who have worked to ensure that these programs are there for current generations and those yet to come in the decades ahead. The Federal Reserve might begin tapering off its economic life support late this year and finish a controversial program of bond purchases by the middle of the next year, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday in remarks that triggered fear and loathing in financial markets. Stocks fell sharply after Bernanke used a midafternoon news conference to clarify the circumstances under which he'd begin easing off the pace of purchases of government and mortgage bonds, a pace that's now averaging $85 billion a month. On Monday, in a case called Salinas v. Texas that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, the Supreme Court held that you remain silent at your peril. The court said that this is true even before you're arrested, when the police are just informally asking questions. The court's move to cut off the right to remain silent is wrong and also dangerous--because it encourages the kind of high-pressure questioning that can elicit false confessions. Russia's Middle East policy shows an awakening of power and focus on Vladamir Putin's part. By "standing tall" on Syria, he's establishing credibility on "the Arab street." Standing up to Israel and the United States while opposing the al Qaeda extremists and Moslem Brotherhood has a huge audience among thinking people. By Jim Kavanagh "No matter what the law actually says": The Snowden Revelations and the Eternal Surveillance State The sudden cascade of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden through Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Laura Poitras in the Guardian, and Barton Gellman in the Washington Post has provided stark confirmation of our worst fears about the American government's contemptuous disregard for our most fundamental rights. By Christopher Mandel Classifying and Understanding Diverse Tactics in Activism: Part 1 This article discusses the nature of violent and non-violent tactics in activism. By Tom Engelhardt Pepe Escobar, The Tao of Containing China Yes, the predictions are in. By 2016 (or 2030?), China will have economically outpaced the U.S. So say the economic soothsayers. The GOP's national role will be primarily negative -- seeking to block, delay, and filibuster measures that will eventually become the law of the land in any event, while simultaneously preaching "states' rights" and praying for conservative majorities on the Supreme Court. In other words, more of the same. Why I am calling on Congress to end signature strikes. You should too. Latest ArticlesAs the meme goes, the chief villains responsible for the high cost of American healthcare are waste, overtreatment, fee-for-service medicine, unaccountable hospitals, and paying for treatments that don't work. Obamacare fixes reflect that meme. But are the accepted villains really the central villains, or just the easiest ones to target? It is an utter failure if you want special privileges A New Moderate "American Party" Is Forming A new political party hopes to fill the wide-open range left by current two-party polarity, its founders say. Remarkably, protean Obama sponged up the Bush Doctrine (belligerent, go-it-alone militarism), the Cheney Doctrine (spying uber alles, freedom demands tyranny), the Clinton Doctrine (pragmatic relativism), even the transparency-hating Nixon Doctrine (if a president does it . . .). Once the NSA has this court approval, it can then target anyone chosen by their analysts, and can even order telecoms and internet companies to turn over to them the emails, chats and calls of those they target. The Fisa court plays no role whatsoever in reviewing whether the procedures it approved are actually complied with when the NSA starts eavesdropping on calls and reading people's emails. The gov'ts propaganda mill is @ full throttle. Yesterday, NSA Chief Alexander came before the House Intel Committee saying more than 50 potential terrorist events was foiled by the Agency's programs since 9/11. Where is the evidence & if true could these plots been prevented by legal investigative means w/o the NSA's snooping? No evidence was given. But the to corp. media, gov't officials "say it", we "print it" ergo it's true What does it take to clean up our own messes? Our society's norms aren't going to help.  Best News Links from the WebWhile State Department officials are fond of saying they're providing hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the Syrian opposition, only a fraction of the promised funds has arrived, and none has gone to the political body the U.S. looks to as an alternative to President Bashar Assad's regime. The topic is only expected to get thornier now that the administration has promised even more nonlethal aid after concluding that Assad's regime has used chemical weapons. The US was scrambling to salvage a plan to open peace talks with the Taliban on Wednesday amid a diplomatic row between Washington and the Afghan president Hamid Karzai over how the process was announced. Repeated phone calls by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, appeared not to have mollified Karzai, who accused the Obama administration of duplicity. Irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban effectively portrayed itself as a government in exile, Karzai suspended talks on a long-term security deal to keep US troops in Afghanistan after Nato leaves in 2014. Along with -- and because of -- dramatic social and demographic changes, America is quickly dividing itself into two separate nations, regional enclaves of rigid politics, as the idea of common national priorities fades further into a distant past. We're now at a point where people may not worry as much about all of America as about their slice of America. In the tumult and transition of change, we may be becoming a nation divided against itself. The Worst of Both Worlds - By CHARLES M. BLOW NYTimes.com "According to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, the reason most Americans disapprove of Congress isn't because of a specific policy or bad ethical behavior but because of inaction and partisan gridlock. Americans believe that Congress is broken.The reason Congress doesn't work is because Republican lawmakers have ceased to believe that it should. For too many of them, compromise has become synonymous with collusion. They would rather resist than work. So the wheels of government are screeching to a halt. Obstruction and bluster have replaced solutions and courage." Four American service members were killed in a mortar attack at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul Tuesday, shortly after the announcement of the first-ever talks between the U.S. and Taliban representatives. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The four Americans were members of the International Security Assistance Force serving in eastern Afghanistan, the ISAF said. As the descendant of a long line of dirt-poor Jews, I share Congressman Steve Israel's dismay at this new reality show, depicting age-old stereotypes. |
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 | 10 Twerk-Ready Picks Straight From Miley's Latest VideoWe know exactly what you were thinking after watching Miley Cyrus' new music video for "We Can't Stop": I need that palm tree nipple cover bathing suit (you know the one Miley and her twin Barbie doll wear?). Between all the white spandex and gold-plated bling, we had a feeling you'd want the same duds for your own twerking binge. See the video and shop the looks after the jump.Read More » |
 | InStyle Celebrates Elizabeth & James Fall 2013, Yes The Olsen Twins Are ThereLately poor Elizabeth has been left to bear the brunt of our Olsen addiction all on her own, with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen slipping off the radar somewhat following the Met Gala last month.Read More » |
 | Karlie Kloss Wears Tight Leather & Caged Heels, Still Looks Like An AngelThe first rule of seeing Karlie Kloss is never stand next to Karlie Kloss. Especially if she’s wearing a leather and mesh mini dress, patent cage sandals and a glossy bob that has our hands automatically reaching for the office scissors.Read More » |
 | The Parisian Hipster Shopping Site You Need To Know About Like NowIn the age of startups, it's natural to feel as if online shopping ventures are a dime a dozen because, let's face it, they are. For such a site to strike an investor, say to the the tune of of a couple million bones, is a remarkable feat. Rad, a Paris-based e-commerce startup that focuses on clothing and accessories of the hipster persuasion has done just that, and we're taking note.Read More » |
 | Karl Lagerfeld Sketches Sports: Gisele In A Jersey, A Soccer Ball Sex ActYou’d think Karl Lagerfeld and sports would go together like orange juice and toothpaste, but the Kaiser never fails to surprise.Read More » |
 | Take Three: Alexander McQueen Signs Fragrance Deal (Again)For Alexander McQueen fragrances, let's all hope the third time's the charm.Read More » |
 | 6 Booze + Fashion Collabs That Make Us Wanna Say No To SobrietyNot content with doing denim, the brothers behind Guess have now cast their sights towards booze. Maurice, Paul, and Armand Marciano, cofounders of the ubiquitous purveyor of Canadian tuxedos, have now purchased Wally’s Wine & Spirits, but the tight relationship between fashion and booze is hardly a new one. Have a swig of six of our favorites.Read More » |
 | The Goods: Snatch Up This T-Rex Necklace Before It Goes ExtinctWe may all want to while away the hours prancing from one sample sale to the next, or loading our virtual shopping carts with an entire season’s worth of new duds. Of course, real life (and even realer bank accounts) get in the way. The Goods, our new curated daily feature, delivers one standout steal hand-selected for your quick and easy shopping pleasure. Today’s find: an Ariel Gordon dinosaur necklace that feeds our strange addiction.Read More » |
 | Can You Tell Which Printed Dress Costs $212 More Than The Other?Mara Hoffman is known for bold and vibrant prints that are unique to her label. That’s why we thought our eyes were playing tricks on us when we found a printed dress almost identical to Hoffman’s. Can you tell which dress is by the print-loving designer and which is from one of our all-time favorite retailers?Read More » |
 | StyleDish: You Can Now Color All Over Cara Delevingne's FaceNot that you have any major jealousy reason to do so, but the option exists thanks to the publishers behind Colour Me Good Ryan Gosling.Read More » |
 | Name That Scent: This Daisy Smells Like Girls, Or A Bad Malibu FlashbackFragrance reviews are silly, but sometimes, fragrance marketing is even sillier. What do "playful pastimes" and "nostalgia" really smell like? So from now on, we’ll be crowdsourcing our own fragrance reviews. Read on to find out what our office thought about the latest sample to land on our desk. This week, we're testing out Daisy Eau So Fresh by Marc Jacobs.Read More » |
 | Stone Cold Fox For Urban Outfitters Boasts Slashed Prices, Bountiful CrochetIf you don’t like vintage-inspired clothing with dreamy aesthetics and totally realistic pricetags, stop reading now. The BFFs behind boho-luxe label Stone Cold Fox have now blessed us with Ninás, a six-piece diffusion line designed exclusively for Urban Outfitters.Read More » |
 | PHOTOS: Emily VanCamp Looks 'Dramatically Different' At Clinique PartyWe've often found that Emily VanCamp is a lot like her Revenge character Amanda when it comes to style, sticking to monochrome, streamlined looks. And while we admire her taste for the classics, it's always nice to see someone step out of the everyday, and that's exactly what VanCamp did last night at Clinique's Dramatically Different party. The actress opted for a vibrant Preen Resort 2013 look, featuring a orangey red poppy print and body-con silhouette. She even ventured into new beauty territory with a hot pink lip and top knot. We know she's not one for a loud look, but we'd like to see more striking get-ups from the star.Read More » |
 | Forever 21's New Street Style Blog Will Further Aid Designer KnockoffsForever 21 has launched its own street style blog, the cleverly titled 21st Street, which is essentially just another shopping platform. We feel pretty much the same about this blog as we do the fast fashion conglomerate as a whole.Read More » |
 | Barack Obama and Vladmir Putin Have Personalized Mulberry Handbags NowThe Alexa, the Neely, the Del Rey, the... Vladmir? Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, but there’s now one getting toted around the streets of Russia.Read More » |
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