FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
New data from the bottom of the planet has scientists warning that the world has seen what may only be the smallest fraction of what could lie ahead as the year when climate change has asserted itself as a global destabilizing force comes to a close. Researchers studying some of the best climate logs ever [...]
“Big” heat across the United States is leading to serious ecological and economic pressures as the nation and the world face unprecedented weather events that are now unquestionably linked to the phenomenon of global warming. Experts say we are dealing with rapidly escalating and potentially unpredictable consequences of man-made climate change that may soon be [...]
ETCHING THE TOMBSTONE OF EUROPEAN-STYLE AUSTERITY: “THE STRATEGY OF AUSTERITY HAS…BEEN COUNTERPRODUCTIVE…” (The Globe & Mail) ` A new report from the International Labor Organization lays out in raw statistics the destruction and “devastating consequences” of the austerity programs imposed on most of Europe and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the United States. The [...]
Warm-weather records are already falling at a dizzying pace in 2012, with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the contiguous United States and other spots around the globe ratcheting up concerns among scientists and weather experts that a “tipping point” in climate change may have been reached. Just three months into 2012, the familiar seasonal [...]
WHITE HOUSE PREPARED TO CHOOSE POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY OVER WOMEN’S HEALTH. (Salon) The skirmish between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church and other religious organizations over contraceptives has made headlines for much of this week. Indignant religious leaders and their media allies have bashed the federal government for ruling as part of the new health [...]
The most recent United Nations conference on climate change has come to a close, with the result being a 190-nation agreement to ostensibly “save the planet.” But the devil is in the details, as they say, and even a cursory examination of this deal reveals a more cynical truth. And even as a new global [...]
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? “BIG GOVERNMENT” STEPS IN TO BAN ABORTION (Kansas City Star) New and excessive regulations against clinics that provide abortions in Kansas have led to a backlash among clinic operators complaining of draconian new rules and by women’s rights advocates that charge the legislation that created the stricter oversight is just [...]
The United States Supreme Court handed down two controversial decisions on Monday that, together, embody the rightward shift of the court and the hesitation of justices to oppose some of America’s largest corporations. The most important ruling from the Court on Monday was in a blockbuster case involving a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart alleging [...]
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