Coast Guard checking report of wellhead leak off Louisiana | Reuters
Coast Guard checking report of wellhead leak off Louisiana | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The Coast Guard was responding to a report that a crewboat struck an inactive wellhead off the Louisiana coast, and that the platform was discharging an unknown quantity of an oily-water mixture, the agency said on Wednesday."
Supreme Court shields warrantless eavesdropping law from constitutional challenge | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court shields warrantless eavesdropping law from constitutional challenge | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "The five right-wing justices hand Obama a victory by accepting his DOJ's secrecy-based demand for dismissal"
Afghanistan government accuses US special forces of civilian death and torture | World news | guardian.co.uk
Afghanistan government accuses US special forces of civilian death and torture | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Hamid Karzai orders US elite force to leave Maidan Wardak province after local reports of disappearance of nine people"
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people | Society | The Guardian
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people | Society | The Guardian: "On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe"
High school graduation rate up sharply, but red flags abound | Reuters
High school graduation rate up sharply, but red flags abound | Reuters: (Reuters) -" For the first time in decades, the United States is making steady gains in the number of high school students earning diplomas, putting it on pace to reach a 90 percent graduation rate by 2020, according to a new analysis released Monday."
Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners | Technology | The Observer
Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners | Technology | The Observer: "'Autonomous weapons', which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists"
Napster: the day the music was set free | Music | The Observer
Napster: the day the music was set free | Music | The Observer: "The digital music revolution started with Napster – the file-sharing service dreamt up by two teenagers in 1999. As a new film tells Napster's story, Tom Lamont recalls the incredible sense of liberation he felt as a young music fan, one of millions happily plundering the world's record collections…"
Protests mark WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning's 1,000th day in jail | World news | guardian.co.uk
Protests mark WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning's 1,000th day in jail | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Rallies and events staged around world ahead of former intelligence analyst's return to military court next week"
Loss of triple-A credit rating 'largely symbolic', says Vince Cable | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Loss of triple-A credit rating 'largely symbolic', says Vince Cable | Politics | guardian.co.uk: "Business secretary attempts to shrug off Moody's decision to downgrade UK, while former chancellors back George Osborne"
BP and government lawyers prepare for battle over environmental cost of spill | Environment | guardian.co.uk
BP and government lawyers prepare for battle over environmental cost of spill | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "British oil giant faces Deepwater Horizon court case determined to dispute level of culpability and reduce fines"
Warren Hill facing legal uncertainty despite stay of execution | World news | guardian.co.uk
Warren Hill facing legal uncertainty despite stay of execution | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Courts imposed temporary delay 30 minutes before Georgia was scheduled to put Hill, who is intellectually disabled, to death"
US drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year, UN reports | World news | guardian.co.uk
US drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year, UN reports | World news | guardian.co.uk: "UN mission in Afghanistan says 506 weapons were released by drones in 2012, compared with 294 the previous year"
Hanford Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hanford Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hanford site is leaking highly radioactive material into the environment. (my comment)
Hanford site is leaking highly radioactive material into the environment. (my comment)
The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "That the US is objectively "the greatest country ever to exist" is as irrational as it is destructive, yet it maintains the status of orthodoxy"
Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog | World news | The Observer
Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog | World news | The Observer: "Pollution has hit record levels recently, prompting citizens to ask if they're paying for economic growth with their health"
NATO air strikes for Afghan security forces must end: Karzai | Reuters
NATO air strikes for Afghan security forces must end: Karzai | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for NATO air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, three days after 10 civilians died in such a strike in the country's east."
5 children dead should be part of the title. (my comment)
5 children dead should be part of the title. (my comment)
Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives"
Hundreds hurt in Russia after meteorite falls to Earth | Science | The Guardian
Hundreds hurt in Russia after meteorite falls to Earth | Science | The Guardian: "Ultranationalist politician suggests 10-tonne meteorite was in fact a new American weapon"
SEC asks court to freeze accounts in Heinz insider trading inquiry | Business | guardian.co.uk
SEC asks court to freeze accounts in Heinz insider trading inquiry | Business | guardian.co.uk: "Regulators chasing 'highly suspicious options trading activity' that may have earned traders $1.7m over Buffett's Heinz deal"
Meteorite explodes over Russia: key questions answered | Science | guardian.co.uk
Meteorite explodes over Russia: key questions answered | Science | guardian.co.uk: "Hundreds of people in Chelyabinsk have been injured after a huge meteorite flared in the sky above the city, but what is it?"
Obama: Americans deserve to know more about drone war | Reuters
Obama: Americans deserve to know more about drone war | Reuters: (Reuters) - "President Barack Obama on Thursday promised to be more forthcoming with the American public on his administration's campaign of lethal drone strikes amid criticism over the targeting of suspected U.S. terrorism suspects abroad."
Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 people hurt | Reuters
Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 people hurt | Reuters: (Reuters) - "More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings."
Daryl Hannah leads celebrity Keystone XL protest at White House gates | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Daryl Hannah leads celebrity Keystone XL protest at White House gates | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Fifty people detained by police after handcuffing themselves to gates to demand that Obama shuts down pipeline project"
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science"
How crazy is this? and how anonymous can billionaires be? (my comment)
How crazy is this? and how anonymous can billionaires be? (my comment)
BlackBerry shares slip after former CEO Balsillie sells stake | Reuters
BlackBerry shares slip after former CEO Balsillie sells stake | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Shares of Blackberry slipped on Thursday, after the company's former Co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie disclosed that he had sold his once-sizable stake in the embattled smartphone maker."
Spy suicide scandal focuses attention on Israel's foreign Jews | Reuters
Spy suicide scandal focuses attention on Israel's foreign Jews | Reuters: (Reuters) - "The jailhouse suicide of an Australian immigrant who may have betrayed Israel's Mossad has focused attention on the agency's recruitment of foreign-born Jews who could spy under cover of their native passports."
Buffett pulls off fresh blockbuster with $23 billion Heinz deal | Reuters
Buffett pulls off fresh blockbuster with $23 billion Heinz deal | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital will buy ketchup and baby food maker H.J. Heinz Co for $23.2 billion in cash, a deal that combines 3G's ambitions in the food industry with Buffett's hunt for growth."
Can't go wrong investing in food. (my comment)
Can't go wrong investing in food. (my comment)
Nato air strike kills civilians in eastern Afghanistan, officials say | World news | guardian.co.uk
Nato air strike kills civilians in eastern Afghanistan, officials say | World news | guardian.co.uk: "If confirmed as Nato action, deaths of 10 civilians, including five children, likely to renew tensions between Karzai and Nato"
Israel rattled by mysterious Australian prisoner: ABC | Reuters
Israel rattled by mysterious Australian prisoner: ABC | Reuters: (Reuters) - "An Australian man committed suicide in a high-security Israeli jail in 2010 after being held for months in great secrecy, Australia's ABC channel said on Tuesday, throwing new light on a case that has rattled Israel."
China overtakes US in world trade | Business | guardian.co.uk
China overtakes US in world trade | Business | guardian.co.uk: "Combined total for imports and exports of Chinese goods hits $3.87tn, edging past the US for the first time"
Pope's sudden resignation sends shockwaves through Church | Reuters
Pope's sudden resignation sends shockwaves through Church | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Pope Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic Church on Monday when he announced he would stand down, the first pope to do so in 700 years, saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to carry on."
Barack Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he's a killer abroad | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
Barack Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he's a killer abroad | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian: "President Obama's appeals to respect human life in the US are at odds with his backing for drone strikes in foreign parts"
US Air Force veteran, finally allowed to fly into US, is now banned from flying back home | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
US Air Force veteran, finally allowed to fly into US, is now banned from flying back home | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Secret, unaccountable no-fly lists are one of many weapons the US government uses to extra-judicially punish American Muslims"
Down and Under - 101 East - Al Jazeera English
Down and Under - 101 East - Al Jazeera English
"Why, despite being one of the world's wealthiest countries, is Australia unable to break the cycle of poverty?"
Seattle mayor grounds police drone program | Reuters
Seattle mayor grounds police drone program | Reuters: (Reuters) - "A plan by Seattle police to send aloft miniature robot drones equipped with stealth spy cameras has been grounded, following heated criticism of the project by residents concerned about privacy rights, the mayor said on Thursday."
Two thumbs up for Seattle. (my comment)
Two thumbs up for Seattle. (my comment)
Asteroid to pass closer to Earth than TV satellites | Science | guardian.co.uk
Asteroid to pass closer to Earth than TV satellites | Science | guardian.co.uk: "Rock measuring 46 metres across is expected to come within 17,100 miles but will not hit Earth, says Nasa"
What will they say if an asteroid was about to hit the earth? (My question)
What will they say if an asteroid was about to hit the earth? (My question)
Brennan rejects CIA torture claims in confident display at Senate hearing | World news | guardian.co.uk
Brennan rejects CIA torture claims in confident display at Senate hearing | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Obama's nominee for CIA director suggests he was misled over value of waterboarding and forcefully defends drones policy"
Send this guy to the Hague. (My comment)
Send this guy to the Hague. (My comment)
Insight: GSK vaccine ingredient scrutinized for narcolepsy clues | Reuters
Insight: GSK vaccine ingredient scrutinized for narcolepsy clues | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Mounting evidence of a link between GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix flu shot and a spike in narcolepsy cases among children in Europe is putting one of the vaccine's key ingredients, AS03, under intense scrutiny."
Greenlight's Einhorn sues Apple, seeks bigger payout | Reuters
Greenlight's Einhorn sues Apple, seeks bigger payout | Reuters: (Reuters) - "David Einhorn wants Apple to "think different" ... about its cash."
US Postal Service to cut Saturday mail delivery as part of $2bn savings plan | Business | guardian.co.uk
US Postal Service to cut Saturday mail delivery as part of $2bn savings plan | Business | guardian.co.uk: "Service expected to start cutback in August that would keep post offices and package deliveries but cut regular mail delivery"
NYPD surveillance of Muslims violates anti-spying rules, lawsuit claims | World news | guardian.co.uk
NYPD surveillance of Muslims violates anti-spying rules, lawsuit claims | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Lawyers accuse NYPD of creating climate of fear and call for independent monitor to oversee counter-terrorism efforts"
New TB vaccine shows no benefit in African study - The Washington Post
New TB vaccine shows no benefit in African study - The Washington Post: "The study, reported online by the Lancet on Monday, was conducted in about 2,800 South African infants. Although the vaccine did not protect them, it might possibly benefit adolescents or adults."
Would European or American parents have wanted their infants vaccinated for a study? Africans and other third world population are being used by pharmaceutical companies as guinea pigs. (My comments)
Would European or American parents have wanted their infants vaccinated for a study? Africans and other third world population are being used by pharmaceutical companies as guinea pigs. (My comments)
Egypt tensions rise as footage emerges of police beating protester | World news | guardian.co.uk
Egypt tensions rise as footage emerges of police beating protester | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Film of Egyptian man being beaten by riot police outside presidential palace sparks calls for 'an end to this regime of tyranny'"
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova transferred to prison hospital | World news | guardian.co.uk
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova transferred to prison hospital | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Tolokonnikova moved from remote penal colony where she is serving two-year sentence after experiencing severe headaches"
US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans | World news | guardian.co.uk
US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans | World news | guardian.co.uk:" Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed themselves than died in combat. And after a decade of deployments to war zones, the Pentagon is bracing for things to get much worse"