Only 24.6 Percent Of All Jobs In The United States Are Good Jobs
• http://endoftheamericandream.comDo you want to know why it seems like good jobs are very rare in the United States today?
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65 Year Old Woman With A Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers
• http://endoftheamericandream.comIn Garden Grove, California the other day, a 65 year old woman with a gun chased 5 armed criminals out of her jewelry store.
Philippines crippled by heavy floods
• http://www.aljazeera.comFlood waters reach up to two metres in capital, forcing schools and offices to shut and people to flee to higher ground.
Morales vows to fight Bolivia poverty
• http://www.aljazeera.com, AgenciesPresident uses Independence Day address to call for complete eradication of extreme poverty in his country by 2025.
To War or Not to War
Stephen LendmanObama plans more wars
Cybersecurity Bills Threaten Freedom
Stephen Lendmantyranny
If You See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big Brother is Watching
• WorldTruth.tv"Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past
Scientists unravel ‘other’ malaria parasite’s DNA code
• The Raw Story.comScientists said Sunday they had unraveled the genetic codes of parasites responsible for the bulk of malaria cases outside Africa, and found they were scarily diversified and may be harder to kill.
Taiwan wants to settle U.S. beef on imports
• The Raw Story.comTaiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou Monday called for the resumption of stalled trade talks with the United States after the island recently lifted a six-year-old ban on some U.S. beef imports.
Robot Learns to Pick the Sweetest, Ripest Strawberries
• Rachel Gross via WIRED.comRichard Dudley imagines a world where strawberries grow in perfect rows and every day a robot army tastes their colors before harvesting the ripe ones. No, that isn’t LSD talking.
A Lie That Deserves to Die
Mike RenzulliThe USS Liberty incident should serve as a reminder not only of the tragedies war but that the truth, and not conspiratorial lies, should prevail in terms of the details about actual events.
Louisiana charter school kicks pregnant students out of class
• Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.comThe American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana on Monday warned a public K-12 charter school in Louisiana that its policy violated federal laws and the U.S. Constitution.
Rep. Kucinich proposes warning labels for cell phones
• Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.comRep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced legislation last week that would require radiation warning labels for cell phones.
Obama slams Romney as ‘Robin Hood in reverse’
• The Raw Story.comUS President Barack Obama joked Monday that his election foe Mitt Romney’s tax plans would rob from the middle class to help the rich — “like Robin Hood in reverse.”
Sikhs say attacks on community are ‘collateral damage’ of 9/11
• Chris McGreal, The GuardianHarjit Jeji Shergill would not go so far as to say there was an inevitability to the murder of six Sikh worshipers at his local temple, but after years of people venomously calling him “Bin Laden” he feared it might come to this somewhere in America.
Pfizer, Johnson drop tests for new Alzheimer drug
• The Raw Story.comPfizer and Johnson & Johnson said Monday they had given up tests of a new therapy to treat Alzheimer’s disease, saying the treatment did not measure up to expectations.
Fuel Cells Take to the Runway
• Duncan Graham-Rowe via TechnologyReview.comAirbus will test a system that could reduce fuel consumption by 15 percent.
How Automakers Use the Brooklyn Bridge to Test Driver Assistance Systems
• Doug Newcomb via WIRED.comEngineers look at bridges differently than the rest of us. When Jim Nickolaou, an engineer at GM working on advanced safety systems, looks at the Brooklyn Bridge, he admires the structure for its beauty and as a feat of engineering.
Temple Attack Shows Jihadis Aren’t the Only Terrorists
• Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.comThe FBI is treating Sunday’s attack on a Sikh temple as a “possible act of domestic terrorism” — raising the possibility that the face of domestic terrorism in the United States looks different than the homegrown jihadism many have forecasted.
Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving
• Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.comThe regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is falling apart. Its prime minister has fled the country, and its military equipment is reportedly breaking down.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
• Mat Honan via WIRED.comIn the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages
DSM-V To Rename Gender Identity Disorder 'Gender Dysphoria'
• The AdvocateThe newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, will replace the diagnostic term “Gender Identity Disorder” with the term “Gender Dysphoria,” according to the Associated Press.
You Don't Want the New U.S. Customs Robot to Find You Suspicious
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comU.S Customs and Border Protection has a new hire on hand at its Nogales, Ariz., border crossing between the United States and Mexico. CBP has installed an avatar kiosk at the checkpoint to help quickly move persons
White House sidesteps raging Romney tax returns battle
• The Raw Story.comThe White House on Monday refused to be drawn into a fierce row involving the top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, branded a “dirty liar” by Republicans for his accusations about Mitt Romney’s tax record.
Hiroshima marks anniversary of atomic bombing
• The RawStory.comA bell tolled to mark a moment of silence while people joined hands in prayer as tens of thousands marked the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Monday.
Wikipedia blackout caused by accidental cable slice in Florida
• Josh Halliday, The GuardianWikipedia was inaccessible globally for a couple of hours on Monday after someone accidentally cut through fibre cables connecting its servers in Florida.
New York Times complains NYPD assaulted a photographer
• Josh Halliday, The GuardianThe New York Times has complained to the city’s police department after one of its photographers said he was assaulted by officers who arrested him on Saturday.
Another Tibetan sets himself alight in China
• The RawStorry.comA Tibetan man in southwest China set himself on fire Monday, the latest in a series of shocking protests against Chinese rule, an overseas human rights group said.
Missouri mosque destroyed in suspicious fire
• David Edwards via RawStory.comFor the second time in about a month, a mosque in Joplin, Missouri caught fire on Monday, but this time it was burned to the ground.
Federal court denies ex-Illinois governor's appeal
• APA federal court in Chicago denied George Ryan’s latest appeal seeking his release from prison, dashing what was widely regarded as the former Illinois governor’s last credible hope to cut short his 6 1/2-year sentence for corruption.
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