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Governments spend US$22 billion a year helping the fishing industry empty our oceans. This injustice must end
Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
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Senate leaders agree on plan to end government shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have agreed on a plan to reopen the federal government after two weeks of shutdown.
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'There Were No Winners In This' Government Shutdown
Obama's Saturday remarks began with the aftermath of the 16-day crisis, vowing that "there were no winners in this" government shutdown. He then moved forward to future priorities, reiterating three key plans from his Thursday speech: crafting a balanced budget, fixing a broken immigration system, and passing a farm bill.
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Which politician do you hate?
Which politician do you hate? Do you think President Barack Obama wants to destroy America? Or do you believe former President George W. Bush is the one who sent the country into the abyss? What about Ted Cruz, Nancy Pelosi or John Boehner - which one of them do you think is the devil incarnate?
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Obama Administration Uses Pirated Code on Healthcare.gov
The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues. As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source software DataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library.
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476,000 Obamacare applications filed
Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.
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FDA to regulate animal food for the first time
Jerky pet treats have been linked to an unknown illness in 3,600 dogs and 10 cats in the U.S.
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The War On Hackers
Corey Thuen was a developer at the Idaho National Laboratory who helped to develop a network-visualization tool called Sophia. Then Battelle Energy, the company that manages the INL, rejected the notion of open-sourcing Sophia, and instead licensed it for commercial use to a company called NexDefense.
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The Frightening New Definition of Terrorism
A few weeks ago Glenn Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, was detained at London Heathrow airport under schedule 7 of the UK’s 2000 Terrorism Act.
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Agencies can’t always tell who’s dead and who’s not, so benefit checks keep coming
In the past few years, Social Security paid $133 million to beneficiaries who were deceased. The federal employee retirement system paid more than $400 million to retirees who had passed away. And an aid program spent $3.9 million in federal money to pay heating and air-conditioning bills for more than 11,000 of the dead.
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Senate panel approves beefed-up oversight of drone attacks
The Senate Intelligence Committee has quietly approved a plan to step up both public and internal government oversight of the use of armed drones to kill suspected militants overseas,
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The US can lock up hackers, but it can't crush their spirit
Laurie Penny: Jeremy Hammond is just the the latest to be targeted in a global witchhunt against the brightest minds of a generation
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Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone
WASHINGTON, DC—To say that there are a lot of people who are angry with the National Security Agency right now would be an understatement. But the things that are getting the most political attention right now—such as the invasion of the privacy of American citizens and spying on the leaders of American allies—are just a fraction of the problem, according to cryptographer and Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society fellow Bruce Schneier.
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Organic or Gimmick? What You Need to Know About Organic Foods
Ah, organic foods. Mysterious and pretentious. Some people swear by organic foods to avoid the "hidden dangers" of conventional products, whereas others completely ignore anything organic, equating the term organic with expensive. But what does "organic" even mean, and is eating organic better for you?
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I Am a Ukrainian
To see more of the Maidan and the people who are protesting there, please visit this website: https://www.facebook.com/maidaners1
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Call to Action: New Jersey
As a customer of ours, we try to not overfill your email inbox with messages. However, we knew you would be interested in knowing that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has proposed a massive new tax on electronic cigarettes in his 2015 budget proposal. Gov. Christie’s stated goal is for electronic cigarette users to pay the same sin taxes that smokers do.
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The billion dollar web site you paid for
Whoever heard of a pure IT project that cost a billion dollars to build (so far)? A GAO investigation goes deep into just how bad the process of building HealthCare.gov was.
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The People Who Create Their Own 'Countries'
Don't like the country you live in? Why not create your own, as many people have done.
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Ex-stepson: White House intruder meant no harm
An Iraq war veteran accused of scaling a fence and making it into the White House before the Secret Service stopped him owns several guns that he could have brought with him if he had meant to harm anyone, his former stepson said Sunday.
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What comes after capitalism?
A new book examines traces the rise of the economic system -- and why it's too entrenched to resist.
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