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"The US and other western oil companies and their governments had been lobbying for passage of a new national law in Iraq, the Iraq Oil Law, which would move Iraq from a nationalised to a largely privatised oil market using Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), a type of contract model used in just approximately 12 per cent of the world's oil market." RSN: According to the US Energy Information

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CNN: The ancient city of Homs is now a warzone as President Bashar al-Assad's army strikes fiercely at the heart of Syria's 11-month-old anti-government uprising. Hundreds in Homs have been killed by rockets, mortar rounds and snipers' bullets since the start of the year, say opposition groups, as the Syrian regime tries to regain control of the country's third largest city. The humanitarian

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CBS: In what senior administration officials described as an "accommodation" in the wake of an uproar from religious leaders, President Obama announced Friday that the government will not force religiously-affiliated institutions such as schools, charities and hospitals to directly provide birth control coverage as part of their employees' health care coverage. Female employees of these

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CNN: As international anger grows over reports of mass carnage at the hands of the Syrian regime, a U.N. Security Council draft resolution condemning Syria failed to be adopted Saturday after veto-wielding members Russia and China voted against it. Ambassadors from the other permanent members of the council -- the United States, France, and the United Kingdom -- said they were furious at Russia

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UPDATE: "ACTA was, at least at its inception, an attempt to push the DMCA onto the rest of the world, and especially the developing world. It was an attempt by the rich Western nations to keep a tight grip on and a narrow definition of what constituted IP and counterfeiting. But it turns out that many of the worst provisions in ACTA, once they saw the light of day, were scaled way back."

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"Syrian state media and activists say at least 30 people have been killed across Syria on Saturday as opposition groups appeal to the Arab League for United Nations intervention." VOA News: The United States is warning that it may close its embassy in the Syrian capital due to the worsening security situation. The State Department issued a statement Friday saying that no decision has been made

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Think Progress: So much for the oil and gas industry claim that the practice of hydraulic fracturing has never polluted a drinking water well. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency officially threw that claim in the waste pit. It announced that an investigation of water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming had linked the chemicals found in a ground water aquifer that was a source of

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CNN: A blast in a Tehran neighborhood reportedly killed a nuclear scientist Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of attacks against such scientists in the country that Iran has blamed on Israel. A motorcyclist placed a magnetic bomb under Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's Peugeot 405, the country's IRNA news agency said. The blast wounded two others who were passengers in the car, the news agency

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Reuters: The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled the first-ever standards to slash mercury emissions from coal-fired plants, a move aimed at protecting public health that critics say will kill jobs as plants shut down. Facing fierce opposition from industry groups and lawmakers from coal-intensive states, the Environmental Protection Agency said the benefits of the Mercury and Air Toxics

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CBS: WASHINGTON — Democrats are abandoning their demand for a surtax on millionaires to help finance payroll tax cuts in a sign that lawmakers are trying to broker a compromise on Congress' highest-profile year-end dispute. Even so, there is no clear path to quick bipartisan agreement on the legislation, which would prevent an automatic Social Security tax increase on 160 million workers and the

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The Setup: At the heart of the 12-day Durban conference is the future of the Kyoto Protocol, set to be cast into limbo just a year from now, which stipulates legally-binding targeted curbs in greenhouse gases for rich countries. It also would seek to coax China, the United States, India and Brazil into a new treaty on emissions curbs. The European Union (EU) -- nearly alone -- has offered to

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Washington Post: More energy from the sun hits Earth in one hour than all the energy consumed on our planet in an entire year. In those terms, it is absurd that our federal government spends tens of billions of dollars annually subsidizing the oil industry, which pulls diminishing resources from underground, while the industry focused above ground on wind, solar and other renewable energies is

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Rolling Stone: "Inside Obama's War Room" Business Week: "Psst... Wanna Buy a Law?" Vanity Fair: "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" Rolling Stone: "Inside Occupy Wall Street"

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Rolling Stone: For months, Obama had vowed to make a swift decision about the pipeline, saying he would settle the matter by the end of the year. As recently as November 1st, the president told a Nebraska reporter that he would be guided by a simple question: "What is best for the American people?" But as the protests over the pipeline heated up – and the State Department's environmental analysis

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WashingtonPost: Herman Cain denies that he sexually harassed women over the years, but there’s no disputing the rude thing he did last week to a man. After Karen Kraushaar came forward as one who accused the Republican presidential candidate of workplace misconduct, Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that “we’ve come to find out that her son works at Politico” — the

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CNN: Here is a roundup of some of the movement's recent developments: DAVIS, California The University of California at Davis placed two police officers on administrative leave after video of them pepper-spraying non-violent protesters at point-blank range sparked outrage at school officials. The chancellor of the University of California, Davis, established a task force Saturday to look into

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CNN: A New York judge issued an order Tuesday morning allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return to Zuccotti Park, just hours after scores of police in riot gear ordered them out and tore down their tents. The order from New York Supreme Court Judge Lucy Billings allows protesters to bring tents and other equipment back into the privately owned park where the now-global Occupy movement

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CNN: More than 3,500 Syrians have been killed since the government crackdown on protesters started in mid-March, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday. "We are deeply concerned about the situation and by the government's failure to take heed of international and regional calls for an end to the bloodshed," spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said Tuesday. "Since

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"The question of how best to handle the federal permit for the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline extension — which will transport crude oil 1,700 miles from Alberta to Texas — has evolved from a backwater process at the State Department to a high-profile political headache for the Obama administration. Several donors said the pipeline issue, along with Obama’s recent decision to withdraw a

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World Press: The geo-economic landscape in Southeastern Europe, as in other regions in the world presently, is being shaped to a great extent by the competition between numerous energy-producing states, large consumers and multinational corporations all vying to control the bulk of the energy-transport systems, most importantly pipelines. The European Union has formed a strategy called Southern

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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mohandas Gandhi Washington Post: Downtown Oakland erupted on Tuesday night with police and protesters clashing across the city, in an attempt to disperse crowds of around 1,000 people participating in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. The problems began early Tuesday morning when police raided the Occupy

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CNN: Freshly liberated from the threat of deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Libyans now face the arduous challenges of repairing the war-ravaged country and building a democratic system from the ruins of a four-decade dictatorship. "This is a time to start a new Libya, with a new economy, with a new education and with a new health system -- with one future," said Mahmoud Jibril, chairman of the

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Earthjustice: Thirteen years after Earthjustice first launched legal action, the nearly 50-million-acre heartland of America’s national forests is secure. A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Roadless Rule, virtually ending a politically infested process that pitted resource exploiters against the vast majority of citizens who rely upon these pristine lands for recreation and repose.

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WSJ: You don't have to be camped out with the protesters to be angry at Wall Street. Contrary to what you may hear, actual capitalists—those providing capital—get a raw deal down on the Street of Shame. Here are five groups who have plenty of cause to march. You're probably among them: 1. Mutual-fund investors Whether you have $1,000 or $1 million in a mutual fund, you're a capitalist. You're

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http://15october.net http://www.occupytogether.org Occupy Wall Street

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BBC: Police in New York have arrested about 70 people, as Occupy Wall Street protesters moved to Times Square. Forty-five were detained in the square, with another 24 held for alleged trespassing at a branch of Citibank near Washington Square Park. Organizers of the New York march from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan to Times Square said about 5,000 people took part. There were also protests in

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WashingtonPost: President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan foundered in the Senate on Tuesday night, as a unified Republican caucus and a pair of Democrats joined to deny the proposal the 60 votes needed to allow it to proceed to full consideration. Obama will now use Republican opposition as part of a campaign to paint the GOP as obstructionists blocking his efforts to improve the economy while

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RortyBomb: The Occupy Wall Street protests have been collecting demands from people in order to create their own list. In their words, their demands are “a process” intended to allow people to “talk to each other in various physical gatherings and virtual people’s assemblies … [and] zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination.” There’s been a lot of back and

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Former Israeli Diplomats: Recognize Palestine Professor Ruby Seibel, the former legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry and an international law expert said, "We must say 'yes' to a Palestinian state, but set the conditions. "I think the approach of the government is a mistake," Prof. Siebel explained, "There is no point in struggling against recognition. There is almost an international consensus

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NYTimes: For months the protesters had planned to descend on Wall Street on a Saturday and occupy parts of it as an expression of anger over a financial system that they say favors the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary citizens. As it turned out, the demonstrators found much of their target off limits on Saturday as the city shut down sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock

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HuffingtonPost: In both Ecuador and Bolivia, the rhetoric of political inclusion is crashing into the politics of identity and collective rights. Both Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and Bolivian President Evo Morales and their broad, heterogeneous movements rode to power by tapping popular frustration over social and political exclusion and discrimination. Their electoral arrival came in the

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"In essence, the administration is trying to translate the broad principles Mr. Obama outlined in May into a concrete road map for talks that would succeed where past efforts have failed: satisfy Israel, give the Palestinians an alternative to going to the United Nations and win the endorsement of the Europeans." NYTimes: The Palestinian decision to apply for full United Nations membership at the

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WashingtonPost: President Obama had a dual mission when he addressed Congress and the country Thursday night: to present a plan to stimulate the economy and, as pressingly, to seize the initiative in a political battle that will be at the heart of the 2012 election. Reflecting his objectives, the president spoke with a renewed sense of urgency — and with more pointed rhetoric than he often

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TheGuardian: Bill McKibben is leading what may be the largest green civil disobedience campaign in a generation, against the proposed construction of the 1,600-mile long Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would transport oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to American refineries at the Gulf of Mexico, and many are concerned about the associated impacts on the climate. Digging up new

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NYTimes: The Federal Housing Finance Agency suits, which are expected to be filed in the coming days in federal court, are aimed at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, among others, according to three individuals briefed on the matter. The suits stem from subpoenas the finance agency issued to banks a year ago. If the case is not filed Friday, they said, it will

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BBC:  At least 83 Guatemalans are thought to have died not long after being deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the 1940s, a presidential commission in Washington has heard. U.S. government scientists infected hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, psychiatric patients and sex workers to study the effects of penicillin. None of those infected consented. The head of the commission,

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"According to a recently released IRS report, 1,470 millionaires and billionaires paid zero taxes in 2009. The report states that donations to charity, investment in government bonds, and taking cash from overseas operations has resulted in a legit, $0-tax bill for these high rollers." PoliticusUSA: "Americans are finally speaking out and telling Republicans that their plan of helping the rich

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BBC: Syrian forces have renewed their crackdown on protesters, with activists saying at least 16 people have died. Friday protests came under fire in the central city of Homs, the capital Damascus, Deir al-Zour in the east and Aleppo and Idlib near Turkey's border. More than 1,700 people have died and tens of thousands have reportedly been arrested since the uprising against the 41-year rule

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WashingtonPost: JERUSALEM – Confronted by mounting economic protests that brought more than a quarter-million Israelis onto the streets Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had appointed a panel of experts to come up with a plan to curb the rising cost of living. The move signaled the depth of the political challenge to Netanyahu posed by the grass-roots

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A situation such as the one in East Africa demands compassion, far-sightedness and generosity of spirit from a nation and its leaders – a lot more than Washington was able to muster during the current debt ceiling debacle. But those are the qualities of leadership required for any group trying to find its place in the world in a way that is sustainable and truly worth living.WashingtonPost:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/africa/21refugees.html?_r=1

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CountTheCosts: The global ‘war on drugs’ has been fought for 50 years, without preventing the long-term trend of increasing drug supply and use. Beyond this failure, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has also identified the drug war’s many serious ‘unintended negative consequences’. These result not from drug use itself, but from choosing a punitive enforcement-led approach that, by its

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USAToday: A decade after Osama bin Laden became the epitome of evil for many Americans in masterminding the 9/11 attacks, President Obama announced that the al-Qaeda leader had been killed in a targeted U.S. assault. The president's extraordinary late-night appearance in the East Room doesn't end the global war on terror that has redefined travel and other aspects of American life since the

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"Human Rights Watch, the New York-based rights group, has said Syria's authorities were among the worst violators of human rights in 2010, jailing lawyers, torturing opponents and using violence to repress ethnic Kurds."BBC: Dara'a, Syria has been at the center of protests against President Bashar al-Assad. But there have been numerous reports of a crackdown and arrests around Syria in recent

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FoxNews: Overall, reporters have pretty good access to the U.S. Capitol. But the House and Senate chambers remain closed when it comes to video. The House began to televise its proceedings in 1979. But with rare exception, almost every frame of video that's ever emanated from the House chamber originated from a government-controlled camera. The House has a number of fixed cameras positioned

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SIGN THE PETITION!NYTimes: In July 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar imposed a two-year halt to uranium exploration and mining on one million acres around the Grand Canyon. The moratorium was a much-needed timeout to a rush of prospecting claims near the canyon, most of them by Canadian and British companies. The rush was fueled by two things: an increase in uranium prices and the wide-open

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WashingtonPost: In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a joint statement Monday that “Gaddafi must go immediately,” and they urged his supporters to "drop him before it is too late." But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western powers of exceeding the bounds of a March 17 U.N. Security Council resolution that authorized a no-fly

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WashingtonPost: TOKYO — As radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant reached a new high Sunday, workers contended with dark, steamy conditions in their efforts to repair the facility’s cooling system and stave off a full-blown nuclear meltdown. Wearing respirators, face masks and bulky suits, they fought to reconnect cables and restore power to motor pumps the size of automobiles.

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"Power plants are the largest remaining source of several toxic air pollutants – responsible for half of mercury and more than half of acid gas emissions in the United States. In the power sector alone, coal-fired power plants are responsible for 99% of mercury emissions. Currently, more than half of all coal-fired power plants already deploy the widely available pollution control technologies

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Guardian: Japan is facing its greatest crisis since the second world war, its prime minister, Naoto Kan, warned as the country struggled for a third day to avert a nuclear disaster following the massive earthquake and tsunami. Police warn that the death toll could exceed 10,000 in Miyagi prefecture alone, and a UN agency reported that more than 1,600 people were confirmed dead. Most are thought

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CNN: The 8.9-magnitude earthquake, which was centered near the east coast of Japan, killed hundreds of people, caused the formation of 30-foot walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways, and tossed cars and boats like toys. Some waves reached six miles inland in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan's east coast. "The earth shook with such ferocity,"

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OpenDemocracy: The sheer scope and significance of the revelations is shocking. Among them are great abuses of power, corruption, lies and war crimes. Yet there are still some who insist WikiLeaks has "told us nothing new". This collection, sourced from a range of publications across the web, illustrates nothing could be further from the truth. Here, if there is still a grain of doubt in your

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers, the hope of its children.” ProsperityAgenda: President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary

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NYTimes: Vowing to track down and kill protesters “house by house,” Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya tightened his grip on the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday, but the eastern half of the country was slipping beyond his control. A bloody crackdown drove protesters from the streets of Tripoli, where residents described a state of terror. After a televised speech by Colonel Qaddafi, thousands of his

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Guardian: A week after Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, was forced to stand down, dozens of Libyans were reported killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces. Meanwhile, Bahraini troops shot dead at least one protester and wounded 50 others after mourners buried four people who were killed on February 17 in the worst mass unrest the western-backed Gulf state has ever seen. On Thursday Bahraini

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BBC: Thousands of opposition supporters clashed with security forces in the center of the Iranian capital on February 14th. There was one report of a death in Tehran. Riot police and plain-clothes police backed by the elite Republican Guard used tear gas to disperse the protesters and detained dozens. They also fired paintball guns at the demonstrators and beat some with batons. The BBC also

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BBC: A court in Ecuador has fined U.S. oil giant Chevron a reported $8.6 billion for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region. The oil firm Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, was accused of dumping billions of gallons of toxic materials into unlined pits and Amazon rivers. Ecuadorean Indian groups said Texaco dumped more than 18 billion gallons (68 billion liters) of toxic

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"In an announcement broadcast on state television, an army spokesman said that Egypt would continue to abide by all its international and regional treaties and that the current civilian leadership would manage the country’s affairs until the formation of a new government."WSJ: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of unrelenting protests, handing power to the military and

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Feb 20 Update: "The $1.2 trillion bill, which includes historic cuts totaling more than $61 billion, passed the House on Saturday and now careens toward an uncertain future in the Senate. Federal funding for AmeriCorps and PBS would cease. Hundreds of millions would be cut from border security, and tens of millions would be withheld from funding for the District of Columbia, including the $150

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Thursday, February 3, 2011: "Another bout of heavy gunfire and clashes erupted Thursday, February 3 around dusk in the Cairo square at the center of Egypt's anti-government chaos, while new looting and arson spread around the capital. Gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners, and human rights workers and the army rounded up foreign journalists." Sunday,

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Guardian: The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on December 17 in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".   Mohamed Bouazizi,

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Telegraph: More than 800 federal and local law enforcement officials seized the suspects in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island in the early hours, targeting New York's five mafia families, one in New Jersey and one in Rhode Island. Some 127 mafia members and their accomplices were charged. Calling the mafia "among the most dangerous criminals in our country", Eric Holder, the Attorney General

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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WashingtonPost: Every year, oil tankers, drilling platforms and boats spill more than 310,000 gallons of oil into the gulf. But even if we halted human activity in the gulf, natural seeps from the sea floor would still send 42 million gallons of oil into gulf waters each year. These seeps actually prevented the BP spill from being an even worse disaster. The gulf has more natural seeps than any

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NewsLeader: Two recent letters have discussed Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's actions regarding health care for Americans. Judge Henry E. Hudson wrote that the law's central requirement — that most Americans obtain health insurance — exceeds the regulatory authority granted to Congress under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. This insurance mandate is considered central to the

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More information: "Trickle Down" Doesn't Work "Wall Street Whitewash"

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RightWeb: The United States continues to lead the world in defense spending, according to a new report released Thursday by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a U.S.-based non-partisan research organization. In fact, the U.S outspends Russia, the next highest spender, by more than 800 percent. In 2008, the most recent year for which figures are available, the U.S. expenditure

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President Obama: "I think that one of the challenges we had two years ago was we had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing because we had to move on to the next thing. And I take responsibility for that." NYTimes: Nicholas D. Kristof: The economic crisis has

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Stephen Colbert's Twitter: "Early estimate of crowd size at Rally: 6 billion." The National Parks Service estimated 200,000. USAToday: WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people turned out on the sun-splashed National Mall on Saturday to hear comedian Jon Stewart proclaim "reasonableness" as the norm in American life and to jab the cable news media for being purveyors of fear and division. "The

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Guardian: America's middle class is disappearing. A lifestyle sustained for 30 years by rising debt is dissolving as the credit dries up. And the question beyond the crisis is: can it ever come back? Figures released last month by the US Census Bureau show it will be hard. Middle incomes are lower, in real terms, than in 1999. The median income, stagnate for a decade, fell by 4.2% once the

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NYTimes: This is a strange time for U.S.-Mexico relations. The Mexican government just issued a travel advisory warning Mexicans about going to Arizona — where they could get arrested by the police for no reason — and the U.S. government just issued a travel advisory warning Americans about going to northern Mexico — where they could get shot by drug dealers for no reason. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart de

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Health Care Basics http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/the-basics.html Tea Party http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904 President Obama's Rolling Stone Interview http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/209395?RS_show_page=0%3E,

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Reuters: One by one, the miners climbed into a specially designed steel capsule barely wider than a man's shoulders and took a 15-minute journey through 2,050 feet of rock to the surface. Scenes of jubilation erupted each time a miner arrived to a hero's welcome above the San Jose gold and copper mine in Chile's northern Atacama desert. Church bells rang out in Chile when the first miner was

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Brussels, Belgium MSNBC: Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the Irish parliament with a cement truck as anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe Wednesday. Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into Brussels, hoping to swell into a 100,000-strong march on European Union institutions later in the day and

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MSNBC: WASHINGTON — The heads of two Iowa egg farms linked to more than 1,600 salmonella illnesses this summer gave Congress few answers in testimony about the conditions at their farms Wednesday, as one executive would not testify and the other did not answer many of the lawmakers' questions. The owner of Wright County Egg, Austin "Jack" DeCoster, said he was "horrified" to learn than his

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MSNBC:About 63 percent of America’s natural gas pipelines — including the 30-inch main that exploded last week in San Bruno, Calif. — are susceptible to potentially deadly faults because they can’t use the industry’s best technology for testing and cleaning them, according to federal records from the Office of Pipeline Safety.The San Bruno gas main exploded Thursday night, killing at least seven

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CBS: The world's rapid urbanization is a reality fraught with both peril and hope. The peril is obvious. Overcrowding, pollution, poverty, impossible demands for energy and water all result in an overwhelming sense these megacities will simply collapse. But the hope, while less obvious, needs more attention. The potential efficiencies of urban living, the access to health care and jobs, along

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Avaaz.org: In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, Hurricane Mitch in Central America, and the Asian tsunami, the world responded by suspending and cancelling debt payments from affected countries. Pakistan's debt is too vast to cancel in one swoop, but a two year moratorium with accountability mechanisms to ensure that the released funds are spent on relief is a first step and now is the moment

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MSNBC: WASHINGTON — At times subtle, at times loud, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending record amounts on lobbying and in election battlegrounds, elbowing into the nation's politics in unprecedented ways for the business community. The country's largest business lobby has pledged to spend $75 million in this year's elections. That's on top of a lobbying effort that already has cost the

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MSNBC: Pakistani flood survivors already short on food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future. Damage to crops, roads and bridges have caused food prices to triple in some parts of the country, adding to the pain of millions affected by one of the worst ever natural disasters to hit the

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EnergyCollective:The Holy Grail of the solar industry — reaching grid parity — may no longer be a distant dream. Solar may have already reached that point, at least when compared to nuclear power, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.It’s no secret that the cost of producing photovoltaic cells (PV) has been dropping for years. A PV system today costs just 50 percent of

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NYTimes: Nearly five million barrels of oil have gushed from BP’s well — and about 800,000 have been captured by containment efforts —since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, according to the latest data. That amount outstrips the estimated 3.3 million barrels spilled into the Bay of Campeche by the Mexican rig Ixtoc I in 1979, previously believed to be the world’s largest accidental

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MSNBC: ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — The United States handed over control of all combat duties to Iraqi security forces on Saturday in a further sign that its withdrawal is on track despite a political impasse in Iraq and a recent rise in violence. President Barack Obama said last Monday he would stick to his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by August 31, with security being left in the hands

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"In this day and age, in the 21st century, are you going to tell me that a woman of 18 or 20 can be tricked?" he asked. "Maybe they went into (prostitution) of their own free will, and then after a while, they say: 'You know what? They forced me to.'" -Maximino Ramirez, Secretary of the Tenancingo town councilMSNBC: TENANCINGO, Mexico — In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister

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MSNBC: "He's somebody who's at the end of his career," Obama said in an interview that aired Friday on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. "I'm sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens." President Obama, speaking on the issue for the first time on Friday, praised the 20-term Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel for serving his constituents

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NYTimes: The WikiLeaks revelations of last week gave new life to this sea of second thoughts. The thousands of military reports revealed little that was fundamentally new; many should have been stamped “open secret.” But in their staccato rawness, they offered a ground-level view of how faulty assumptions gave rise to misjudgments, and how misjudgments cascaded into everyday deadly encounters.

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"Many intelligence agencies are doing the same work, wasting money and resources on redundancy. And so many intelligence reports are published each year that many are routinely ignored."-The Washington Post's "Top Secret America" InvestigationMSNBC:WASHINGTON — Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no-one

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MSNBC:WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed into law Wednesday an overhaul of banking and Wall Street regulations that he says will end many of the practices that sent the U.S. economy into the worst recession since the 1930s.The law, pushed through mainly by Democrats in Washington's deeply partisan environment, comes almost two years after the near financial meltdown in 2008 in the United

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"My fellow Americans," said then-President George W. Bush on March 19, 2003, "on my orders, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." He was heralding the beginning of Washington's latest and gravest regime change fiasco, and yet another chapter in BP's other disaster. Iraq possesses

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WorldPress.org: After the fight with Tehran ended in a ceasefire in 1988, the Iraqi economy was in shambles and deeply in debt to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose leaders held Saddam's coat as he fought off the Iranians. Now they were refusing to forgive these debts. Further, Saddam accused the emirs of Kuwait and the royals of the Saudi Kingdom of driving down the price of oil by exceeding their

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"We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah—for patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn; I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world." -Ayatollah Khomeini, 1980 speechWorldPress.org: In 1979, after a series of coups, Iraq witnessed the political ascent of Saddam Hussein through the ranks of the Ba'ath Party to lead the

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MSNBC: DALIAN -- China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves. The cleanup — marred by the drowning of a worker this week, his body coated in crude — continued over the Yellow Sea off the northeastern city of Dalian, one of China's major

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MSNBC:NEW ORLEANS — BP's experimental cap was holding Saturday as the final hours ticked away in a two-day trial run to make sure it keeps oil from pouring into the Gulf of Mexico without blowing a new leak in the busted well. Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said engineers glued to an array of pressure, temperature, sonar and other sensors were seeing no evidence of oil escaping into

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MSNBC:The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix argues that Arizona's law requiring state and local police to question and

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"[I feel] a sense of enormous relief that this burden has been lifted off my shoulders and off the shoulders of the people of the city." -Bishop Edward DalyNYTimes: JANUARY 30, 1972 On that Sunday, in events that were to generate an extensive archive of feature films, documentaries, investigative books, popular songs and poetry that helped build worldwide sympathy for Northern Ireland’s

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NYTimes: Dennis Derryck, a 70-year-old mathematician and professor at the New School for Management and Urban Policy, is Schoharie County’s newest farmer. His spread is Corbin Hills Road Farm, 92 acres with a pretty farmhouse and a silo that needs a roof. It’s the cornerstone of a project linking the upstate rural and downstate urban through beets and berries, an effort to get healthy food into

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WashingtonPost: The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators. The security arrangements, part of a $2.16 billion transport contract, violate laws on the use of

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MSNBC: The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said security in Osh remained fragile with violence persisting in pockets on the city's edges. It said the Red Cross and rights organizations had trouble reaching some Uzbek neighborhoods, and voiced concern that humanitarian assistance was not reaching all of the population. The violence reduced much of Osh to charred rubble.

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