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Obama So Far: Making History, Inspiring An Opposition

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Frank James - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - Barack Obama was always going to have a place in history as the first African-American president. That's no small feat given the nation's peculiar past. But achieving what other Democratic presidents couldn't fueled deep divisions within the country and set the table for a second term with daunting challenges.

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CHARTS: Everyone Is Throwing Away Too Much Food

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson - Jan. 15 (News) - It's no secret that Americans throw away an enormous amount of food, sending day-old leftovers and slightly wilted spinach straight to the garbage. But what about the food that never even makes it to the kitchen table? A new report released by a British engineering society reveals that worldwide, billions of tons of food are squandered each year because of poor agriculture practices, which include inefficient harvesting and inadequate infrastructure and storage—and it's depleting Earth's water supply. "This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands," writes the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. "The potential to provide 60–100% more food by simply eliminating losses, while simultaneously freeing up land, energy and water resources for other uses, is an opportunity that should not be ignored." According to the report, developing countries, including India, China and Vietnam, don't have ...

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Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - Norwood — This is the second chapter in a five-chapter story. Click here to see the rest of the series. But the fire that took 8-year-old Jashawn Parker in the late evening of Aug. 6, 2002, on a typically dense northwest-Bronx block somehow never got muc

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As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.

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Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Why do transportation projects cost so much in the United States?

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Hemp bootstraps superior technologies, rescues capitalism from cannibalistic culture | End the Lie - Independent News

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

endthelie.com - By Justin Michels - Dec. 02 (News) - Our economic crisis is directly associated with a crippling dependence on unsustainable resources and their ever-growing scarcity. Developing sustainable resources is a necessary precursor to rebuilding the various manufacturing industries, which must again become the backbone of this great nation. True to legend, the industrial hemp plant stands ready for this monumental task. Offering not only an infinitely valuable resource, but also sobering lessons for the evolution of capitalism and American culture.

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Web domain sale represents a real business opportunity

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Emma Barnett - Jun. 12 (News) - At first glance, the topic of internet domain names may not seem important...

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IPv6 Day: Kicking the tires of a next-gen Net today

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - Jun. 09 (News) - The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings.

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Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Richard Black - Mar. 12 (Breaking News) - A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured. Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it. A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 600. Hundreds more people are missing and it is feared about 1,300 may have died.

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USA Inc.: Red, White, and Very Blue

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Mary Meeker - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - The bottom line on USA Inc.? Cash flow and net worth are negative, profits are rare, and off-balance-sheet liabilities are enormous. The "company" has underinvested in productive capital, education, and technology—the very tools needed to compete in the global marketplace. Lenders have been patient so far, but the sky-high rates on the sovereign debt of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal suggest what might lie ahead for USA Inc. shareholders and our children. By our rough estimate, USA Inc. has a net worth of negative $44 trillion. That comes to $143,000 per capita. Negative. To be fair, the net worth calculation leaves out some assets, including, most importantly, the power to tax. Which simply means that the government can improve its own finances by worsening those of its citizen-shareholders. Medicare and Medicaid are the crushers for USA Inc. Excluding them and one-time charges, the "core business" shows a median net profit margin of 4 percent over the past 15 years. USA Inc.'s core operations were in surplus nine of those years. In the early years of the Republic, the only entitlements were military pensions. The big change came with the 1930s and World War II, when the federal government substantially expanded its role in the economy (in effect, its "business lines"). Entitlements experienced a surge in the Great Society of the 1960s. Since 1965, the nation's gross domestic product has increased about 2.7 times over, but entitlement expenses have increased 11.1 times over. What do Americans have to show for it? Evidence suggests that when the government provides, families do less for themselves: There is an 82 percent correlation between rising entitlement spending and falling personal savings rates. With the aging of my baby boom generation, things will get even worse.

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USA Inc.

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Morgan Stanley - By Mary Meeker - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - Imagine for a moment that the United States government is a public corporation. Imagine that its management structure, fiscal performance, and budget are all up for review. Now imagine that you’re a shareholder in USA Inc. How do you feel about your investment? Because 45% of us own shares in publicly traded companies, nearly half the country expects quarterly updates on our investments. But although 100% of us are stakeholders in the United States, very few of us look closely at Washington’s financials. If we were long-term investors, how would we evaluate the federal government’s business model, strategic plans, and operating efficiency? How would we react to its earnings reports? Nearly two-thirds of all American households pay federal income taxes, but very few of us take the time to dig into the numbers of the entity that, on average, collects 13% of our annual gross income (not counting another 15- 30% for payroll and various state and local taxes).

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What is IPv6 and Why Should We Care?

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Next Web - Feb. 13 (Advocacy) - The IP [Internet Protocol] is a communication protocol used to relay data across a network. This is the primary protocol that establishes the Internet. The version of IP (IPv4) used today has not changed since 1981. It supports 4 billion addresses. We are running out of space. IPv6 will support 340,000 billion addresses and be user-friendly for mobile IP's.

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Baltimore ranks near top in congestion

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Jan. 20 (News) - The Baltimore metropolitan area — though only No. 17 in population — ranks fifth in the nation in the average number of hours automobile commuters are delayed during peak periods, according to a national traffic study to be released today.

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China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Anita Chang - Dec. 03 (News) - A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said.

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Time Is Running Out

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Bob Herbert - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - We’ve now lost 8.4 million jobs in this recession, and a vast majority of them are gone for good. The politicians are clambering aboard the jobs bandwagon, belatedly, but very few are telling the truth about the structural employment problems in the U.S. and the extremely heavy lift that is necessary to halt our declining living standards and get us back to an economy that is self-sustaining.

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The Ongoing Logistical Nightmare of Haiti, Six Days Later

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:33:29 -0800

Washington Independent - Jan. 19 - Ken Keen, a three-star Army general, was in Haiti on Tuesday at the U.S. ambassador’s office shortly before nightfall when the quake began. The ambassador’s office is high above the city of Port-au-Prince. Keen heard “the screaming and yelling of the

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Marin sewage spill to reach 300,000 gallons

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Kelly Zito - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Sewage spills have become a chronic problem in Marin County, where much of the water infrastructure is three decades old or more, and in some cases, made of brittle, orange clay instead of modern materials such as plastic and rubber.

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Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

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The Highwaymen: How Goldman Sachs and GOP Pols are Selling Off U.S. Transit

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:14:45 -0800

Mother Jones - By Daniel Schulman, James Ridgeway - Dec. 19 (Special Report) - Why you could soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish builders for the privilege of driving on American roads.

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NewsTrust - Infrastructure - Most Recent Stories

Obama So Far: Making History, Inspiring An Opposition

CHARTS: Everyone Is Throwing Away Too Much Food

Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Hemp bootstraps superior technologies, rescues capitalism from cannibalistic culture | End the Lie - Independent News

Web domain sale represents a real business opportunity

IPv6 Day: Kicking the tires of a next-gen Net today

More questions than answers about Japan nuclear crisis

Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant

USA Inc.: Red, White, and Very Blue

USA Inc.

What is IPv6 and Why Should We Care?

Baltimore ranks near top in congestion

China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record

Time Is Running Out

The Ongoing Logistical Nightmare of Haiti, Six Days Later

Marin sewage spill to reach 300,000 gallons

Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions

The Highwaymen: How Goldman Sachs and GOP Pols are Selling Off U.S. Transit