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William Boardman | Radiation Release From Federal Facility Still Stymies Experts
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "Plutonium and other radioactive elements were accidentally released from the only U.S. underground nuclear weapons waste storage site in New Mexico on Valentine's Day 2014. More than three months later, investigators think they've found an underground container that failed - and that there are hundreds more like them, both underground and above ground, at different sites in New Mexico and Texas."
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William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "Plutonium and other radioactive elements were accidentally released from the only U.S. underground nuclear weapons waste storage site in New Mexico on Valentine's Day 2014. More than three months later, investigators think they've found an underground container that failed - and that there are hundreds more like them, both underground and above ground, at different sites in New Mexico and Texas."
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Ralph Nader | Big Credit Suisse's Sweetheart Deal
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "Attorney General Eric Holder's sweetheart settlement with Switzerland's second largest bank, corporate criminal Credit Suisse, sent the wrong message to other corporate barons."
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Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "Attorney General Eric Holder's sweetheart settlement with Switzerland's second largest bank, corporate criminal Credit Suisse, sent the wrong message to other corporate barons."
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Judge Allows Guantanamo Force Feeding to Continue, but Offers Rebuke
Charlie Savage, The New York Times
Savage writes: "The decision underscored the stubborn problems entangling Guantanamo - a dispute over its future between Mr. Obama, who still wants to close it, and many Republicans in Congress, who want its use expanded, has resulted in a frozen-in-place policy that no one supports."
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Charlie Savage, The New York Times
Savage writes: "The decision underscored the stubborn problems entangling Guantanamo - a dispute over its future between Mr. Obama, who still wants to close it, and many Republicans in Congress, who want its use expanded, has resulted in a frozen-in-place policy that no one supports."
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Kathy Kelly | A Pivot on the Peace Island
Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams
Kelly writes: "Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim build a base to accommodate U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for their missions throughout Asia."
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Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams
Kelly writes: "Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim build a base to accommodate U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for their missions throughout Asia."
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McDonald's CEO Says the Company Pays 'Fair' Wages
Will Freeman, ThinkProgress
"'We continue to believe that we pay fair and competitive wages,' stated Don Thompson, McDonald's CEO, in an annual meeting with shareholders at corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois on Thursday."
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Will Freeman, ThinkProgress
"'We continue to believe that we pay fair and competitive wages,' stated Don Thompson, McDonald's CEO, in an annual meeting with shareholders at corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois on Thursday."
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Seven Dead Including Gunman in 'Mass Murder' California Shooting
Martin Pengelly and Martin Williams, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Seven people have been killed in a shooting near a college campus in California, in what authorities described as 'premeditated mass murder.' Seven more people were injured, one with injuries that police said were life-threatening and required surgery."
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Martin Pengelly and Martin Williams, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Seven people have been killed in a shooting near a college campus in California, in what authorities described as 'premeditated mass murder.' Seven more people were injured, one with injuries that police said were life-threatening and required surgery."
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Kumi Naidoo | Agriculture at a Crossroads: How Food Systems Affect Biodiversity
Kumi Naidoo, EcoWatch
Naidoo writes: "The food system we choose has a direct impact on which type of world we will have. It's the difference between a field that hums and is robust with life, or one which is dusty, dry and dead."
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Kumi Naidoo, EcoWatch
Naidoo writes: "The food system we choose has a direct impact on which type of world we will have. It's the difference between a field that hums and is robust with life, or one which is dusty, dry and dead."
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