Private sector down 300k jobs as public employment remains stable
June 13, 2011
CJ Photo by Don CarringtonGov. Bev Perdue, using her veto stamp Sunday to reject the General Assembly's 2011-12…
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(AFP) – 2 days ago
WASHINGTON — The US government is financing the development of "shadow" Internet systems to enable dissidents abroad to get around government censors, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
The newspaper said the covert effort also includes attempts to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries.
The operation involves a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of…
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"We have to get to a place where every part of our society is cognizant of the kinds of threats that are out there, and empowered to take some common sense steps to counter that."… Continue
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QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:05:10 EDT PM Blurred images on the Internet could become much more common in Tennessee.…
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Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Interns from SUNY New Paltz are trained in emergency management and disaster response at the Emergency Services Center in nearby Orange County.
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Carlene Pinto watched from her middle-school classroom in Brooklyn as the plane pierced the second tower; then she trudged the three miles home as paperwork and dust rained from the sky. Rebecca…
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By AL BAKER
Published: June 9, 2011
He had never met the young girl, recognizing her only through a 15-minute video he had downloaded that showed her being sexually abused by a man. Her circumstances were not familiar to him; he knew her only as “Vicky,” the self-titled subject of a series of videos popular…
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Rev. Eugene Klein, left, and Frank Calabrese Sr. (Klein, The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau/ Calabrese, FBI)
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Young attorney pleads not guilty to the charges
By Clifford Ward, Special to the Tribune8:50 p.m. CDT, June 9, 2011
A young…
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By PETER SVENSSON
AP Technology Write
NEW YORK —
After pressure from four U.S. senators, Apple Inc. has said it will start rejecting iPhone applications that tip drivers off about police checkpoints for drunken driving.
Apple updated its app developer guidelines Wednesday to exclude such apps. On Thursday, some DUI apps were still…
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Gennette Cordova, the Seattle woman who received a lewd photo from Rep. Anthony Weiner, said it came as a surprise and that she had not sent anything suggestive to him. Cordova's experience with Weiner appears to fit a pattern: In rapid and reckless fashion, he sought to transform informal online conversations about politics and policy into sexually charged exchanges, often laced with racy language and explicit images.…
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press release
June 9, 2011, 3:10 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD). In the lawsuit Judicial Watch is…
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FULLERTON, California -- A U.S. computer repairman suspected of installing spyware…
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Employers in Washington state are allowed to fire employees who fail a drug test, even if they have valid medical-marijuana authorization, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
By J.B. Wogan
Seattle Times staff reporter
It turns out that you can be fired for legally using medical marijuana in Washington state.
The Washington…
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Prologue
740: In 740 A.D. in a land locked between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, known as Khazaria, a land which
today is predominantly occupied by Georgia, but also
reaches into Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and
Romania, the modern Jewish race is born. A modern
Jewish race that incidentally is not Jewish.
How can this be, you ask? Well at that time, the
Khazarian people felt a vulnerable people as they had
Muslims one side of them and…
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A top Canadian court slams the U.S. for trying to crush a corporate whistle-blower
By David Sirota
As if we needed any more evidence that the United States is fast becoming a Corporate Police State (i.e., systematically deploying police power to protect narrow corporate…
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Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a peptide that short circuits a pathway for chronic pain. Unlike current treatments this peptide does not exhibit deleterious side effects such as reduced motor coordination, memory loss, or depression, according to an article in Nature Medicine posted online June 5, 2011.
The peptide, CBD3, has been shown in mice to interfere with signals that navigate…
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