CLG: North Carolina Academic Fraud Went on for Years Amid Lax Oversight, Report Finds

Anyone who has attended  ANY college ....sit back and think about the 'sports athletes' that were denied education or even remedial assisitance to boost the college's standing in SPORTS.

The MONEY athlettes brought in was more important.

The 'athletes' were excused from missing classes because...well....they needed to practice and travel or whatever.

Can we stop pretending? Why does this surprise anyone?  

News Updates from CLG
23 October 2014

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Patient Placed in Isolation for Ebola Testing at Bellevue Hospital 23 Oct 2014 A doctor in New York City who recently returned from West Africa was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center on Thursday and placed in isolation while doctors await the return of tests to determine whether he has the Ebola virus. While the results of the tests will not be known until late Thursday, the health authorities are concerned enough about the possibility that he has the virus to have started to identify and contact anyone who might have come into contact with the man, identified by city officials as Dr. Craig Spencer.

Ebola panic in Brooklyn: Doctor who treated patients in West Africa visited hip bowling hotspot ONE DAY before he was rushed to the hospital with 103F fever 23 Oct 2014 Ebola panic has struck New York City and the fear may already have spread from suspected infected doctor Craig Spencer's home of Manhattan to nearby Brooklyn, where the Doctors Without Borders physician visited a hip bowling hotspot one day before he was rushed to the hospital with a 103F fever. Instead of steering clear of crowds after his recent return from Guinea, the 33-year-old took an Uber car to Williamsburg where he visited the one of the trendy neighborhood's bowling alleys--either Brooklyn Bowl or The Gutter--according to Free Williamsburg. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said on Thursday: 'EMS HAZ-TAC Units transported a patient to Bellevue Hospital who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms...'

Plane passengers hospitalized due to Ebola concerns 22 Oct 2014 An airline passenger was being evaluated at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday due to Ebola concerns, reports CBS New York. Two others were hospitalized after getting off planes into Chicago. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson Carol Crawford said the Newark passenger was "identified as reporting symptoms or having a potential exposure to Ebola" during the enhanced screening process for those arriving in the U.S. from three West African nations.

Ebola: US to Monitor All West Africa Travellers --CDC: Programme will start in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Georgia 22 Oct 2014 The United States has mandated a 21-day monitoring period for all travellers entering the US from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa. People whose travel originated in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea will be given kits to help them track their temperature and told to provide daily updates to US health officials. The mandate affects all travellers, including visitors, aid workers, journalists and other Americans returning from the infected region.

West Haven Family Quarantined, Complies With Emergency Order Issued in Connecticut 22 Oct 2014 A family of six from West Haven has been quarantined after returning from West Africa, according to Mayor Edward O'Brien. They do not have any symptoms, the mayor said. The quarantine is precautionary and complies with an emergency order Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) issued earlier this month to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the state of Connecticut. On. Oct. 7, Malloy signed an order that gives the Commissioner the Department of Public Health the ability to quarantine anyone who might have been exposed to the Ebola virus.

Ebola Study Projects Spread of Virus on Overseas Flights 20 Oct 2014 Up to three Ebola-infected people could embark on overseas flights every month from the three most-affected African countries, according to a new study that projected travel patterns based on infection rates and recent flight schedules. The findings, published Monday in the journal Lancet, suggest that Ebola cases could be spread overseas by unwitting travelers from the worst-hit countries...The upshot is "that controlling the outbreak at the source is the most important thing that needs to happen" to prevent the international spread of the virus, said Kamran Khan, an infectious disease physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and lead author of the study.

ISIS shows off new weapons allegedly airdropped by US 21 Oct 2014 Islamic State has published a new video in which a jihadist shows off brand-new American hardware, which was purportedly intended for the Kurds they are fighting in the Syrian border town of Kobani. The undated video, posted by the unofficial IS mouthpiece "a3maq news", sees a jihadist showing several boxes of munitions with English-language markings, with a parachute spread out on the ground beside. Although it is unclear what was the bundle shown in the video, the militant explains that "this is some of the military equipment that was dropped by American forces." [LOL! US tax dollars at work: Feeding I-CIA-SIS is a top priority. Keep shuttin' off Detroit's water, though! Start reading.]

US jury convicts Blackwater guards in 2007 killing of Iraqi civilians 22 Oct 2014 Three security guards working for the private US contractor mercenary firm Blackwater have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a group of unarmed civilians at a crowded Baghdad traffic junction in one of the darkest incidents of the Iraq war. A fourth, Nicholas Slatten, was found guilty of one charge of first-degree murder. All face the likelihood of lengthy prison sentences after unanimous verdicts on separate weapons charges related to the incident. The Nisour Square massacre in 2007 left 17 people dead and 20 seriously injured after the guards working for the US State Department fired heavy machine guns and grenade launchers from their armoured convoy in the mistaken belief lie that they were under attack by insurgents.

NATO, Swedish fighters scrambled to intercept Russian plane 22 Oct 2014 NATO and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian intelligence-gathering plane that briefly entered Estonian airspace on Tuesday, the alliance said on Wednesday. The Estonian Foreign Ministry called the Russian ambassador to the ministry and gave him a protest note over the incursion, the Estonian defense forces said. Fighters from Denmark as well as Portuguese F-16s from NATO's air policing mission in the Baltics took off after radar detected an unidentified aircraft flying close to NATO airspace in the Baltic Sea, NATO said.

NATO jets intercept Russian fighters twice in 2 days over Baltic Sea 21 Oct 2014 A senior National Defence official says the Harper government has been given a series of options to maintain Canada's support for jittery allies in eastern Europe, but the contribution to NATO's air policing mission over the Baltics will come to an end by the new year as scheduled. Maj.-Gen. Michael Hood testified before a House of Commons committee on Tuesday just as reports emerged that the North Atlantic alliance scrambled fighter jets -- including two Canadian F-18s -- twice in two days to intercept Russian military aircraft in the vicinity.

Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown 22 Oct 2014 A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said. "Dogs got him," the spokesman said, referring to the intruder. Video showed Secret Service agents surrounding the man on the north lawn of the White House, which was put on lockdown. The man dramatically punched one of the dogs that attacked him, as seen in the video.

Hatchet-wielding man attacks NYPD officers 23 Oct 2014 A New York City police officer is in critical condition after a man with a hatchet attacked four officers on the street in Queens, New York on Thursday, officials said. Two officers opened fire on the man, killing him and accidentally striking a nearby woman, who was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Police Commissioner William Bratton said it was unclear what provoked the attack, NBC New York reports, but law enforcement agencies nationwide have been on high alert following fatal terrorism-linked attacks on uniformed soldiers in Canada on Wednesday and another on Monday.

U.S. weighs passport, border changes in wake of Ottawa attack 23 Oct 2014 U.S. officials are debating whether to tighten controls on the border with Canada and make it easier to revoke the passports of suspected militants, steps that could gain traction following two attacks in Canada this week. The officials cautioned on Thursday that the discussions are in preliminary stages and that no immediate action appeared likely by either U.S. President Barack Obama's administration or Congress. While there was no specific evidence of a new threat in the United States, federal and state authorities were on a heightened state of alert following a gunman's attack in Ottawa on Wednesday and another by an assailant in Quebec on Monday.

Canada's domestic terror threat quietly elevated days before attack --CSIS quietly raised the terror threat level just days before the attack in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. 21 Oct 2014 Just days before a deadly attack on Quebec soldiers, Canada's domestic terrorism threat level was quietly elevated from unlikely to "could occur" for the first time in four years, Global News has learned. Last Friday, the terrorism threat level in Canada rose from low to medium for the first time since Aug. 13, 2010, according to an internal document obtained by Global News. The document was distributed within Canada's intelligence community and is attributed to the Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (ITAC), a team of security intelligence organizations from across Canada. "Intelligence indicates that an individual or group within Canada or abroad has the intent and capability to commit an act of terrorism. ITAC assesses that a violent act of terrorism could occur,' the document says."

Canada Parliament gunman had planned to travel to Syria: police 23 Oct 2014 The gunman in Wednesday's attack on Canada's capital had a criminal record and recently applied for a passport, planning to travel to Syria after undergoing a "radicalization process," police said on Thursday. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was a Canadian who may also have held Libyan citizenship, said Bob Paulson, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He said the suspect had no apparent links to another Canadian who killed a soldier in Quebec earlier in the week.

Canadian Michael Zehaf-Bibeau thought to be the gunman in Ottawa shooting 23 Oct 2014 The man behind the Ottawa shootings is a Canadian convert to Islam whose passport had been seized by authorities, federal sources say. While police have not confirmed the man's identity, sources have told Canada's Globe And Mail, Reuters and Associated Press that the main suspect was Michael Zehaf-Bibeau...The suspected gunman, Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was reportedly born Michael Joseph Hall but changed his name, sources said.

Obligatory 'hero narrative' emerges in Canada false flag: Ottawa shooting: Kevin Vickers hailed as hero who took down attacker --'Thank God for Sgt at Arms Kevin Vickers' - tweet by Justice Minister Peter MacKay 22 Oct 2014 The man reported to have shot an assailant on Parliament Hill today is a former police officer with a background in providing security services for dignitaries, including members of the Royal Family. Kevin Vickers, 58, a native of Miramichi, N.B., became the sergeant-at-arms in the House of Commons eight years ago after a varied career in security. He spent 29 years with the RCMP and rose to the rank of chief superintendent, often serving as the face of the national police force in New Brunswick. Before his appointment as sergeant-of-arms, Vickers was director of security operations for the House of Commons. [Wow! Vickers's entire profile/narrative is already available and in print, even though buildings are still under lockdown! --LRP]

Toronto Maple Leafs on lockdown in Ottawa 22 Oct 2014 A terrifying situation in Canada's capital city of Ottawa has resulted in Wednesday night's game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Senators being postponed. A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country's capital was shot to death Wednesday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said. One gunman was killed, and police said they were searching for as many as two others in what Gilles Michaud, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, called a "dynamic, unfolding situation." The Ottawa police, via its official Twitter account, warned the public to stay away from that area while it investigated.

House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers says he would charge 'traitor' Edward Snowden with MURDER 22 Oct 2014 House Intelligence Committee Chairman [Grade 'A' sociopath] Mike Rogers made no attempt to hide his disdain for NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday at a meeting in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening in London. Rogers told his Members of Parliament that Snowden is a 'traitor' and is likely responsible for the deaths of both British and U.S. soldiers. "The [US] government has pressed charges on Mr. Snowden. We are treating him, as I would argue, the traitor that he is," Rogers said, according to the Huffington Post. "And by the way, and this is important, I would charge him for murder," Rogers added.

Christie says GOP gubernatorial candidates need to win so they control 'voting mechanisms' 22 Oct 2014 Governor Christie pushed further into the contentious debate over voting rights than ever before, saying Tuesday that Republicans need to win gubernatorial races this year so that they’re the ones controlling "voting mechanisms" [!?!] going into the next presidential election. Republican governors are facing intense fights in the courts over laws they pushed that require specific identification in order to vote and that reduce early voting opportunities. Critics say those laws sharply curtail the numbers of poor and minority voters, who would likely vote for Democrats. Christie stressed the need to keep Republicans in charge of states -- and overseeing state-level voting regulations -- ahead of the next presidential election.

North Carolina Academic Fraud Went on for Years Amid Lax Oversight, Report Finds 22 Oct 2014 Academic fraud that allegedly went on for years within a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department frequented by athletes was carried out largely by two administrators, but thrived amid lax oversight and silence, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report from former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, who was hired by the university, examined how students--many of them top-tier athletes--were able to take no-show courses in the school's African and Afro-American studies department, earning passing grades and helping to ensure their academic eligibility to compete.

Dallas man's Halloween decor inspired by Ebola 23 Oct 2014 A Dallas-area man has taken inspiration from the fear of Ebola for the Halloween decorations at his town house. James Faulk stacked up barrels marked "biohazard," surrounded his yard in University Park, with yellow caution tape and crossed his door and windows with white tape marked "quarantine," re-enacting a scene that's played out at three Dallas apartments. Speaking to reporters, Faulk wore a protective suit with the label "CDC Trainee" and a face shield.

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Sad commentary of what we've become as a nation!

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mi). (photo: Getty Images)

American Terrorists on Both Sides of War

By William Boardman, Reader Supported News

14 February 14

Drone Rangers shoot first, ask questions later – maybe

he United States often and wrongly calls itself the "indispensable nation," as if just being a global empire meant the world couldn't possibly live without us. How about a universal plebiscite on that proposition? But there is one way in which the U.S. really and truly, honest-to-God, is undeniably the world's indispensable nation – that characterization is absolutely true when our drone strikes wipe out men, women, and children at weddings and funerals, or in their town meetings and gardens, or wherever sudden, painful death happens to catch them by surprise just because the president checked someone's name on a list.

You're not supposed to know the U.S. kills civilians. You're not supposed to think of your own country as a state sponsor of terrorism. Your government won't tell you about America's red, white, and out-of-the-blue murder policy. Accomplice governments won't talk about their unclean hands either. But word gets out. They can't persecute truth tellers fast enough. Not yet anyway.

 

On January 29, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London once again blew some the secrecy off American foreign homicidal policy. A leak from inside the Pakistani government documents 330 drone strikes in that country from 2006 through 2013, an average of 47 a year (although 2010 was a peak year). The official, secret document supports the accuracy of previous Bureau reports of 2,371 drone deaths during that period. The official document gives a total of 2,217 remote kills, but has no data for 2007.

 

The Bureau reported that: "The document is the fullest official record of drone strikes in Pakistan to have yet been published. It provides rare insight into what the government understands about the campaign. It also provides details about exactly when and where strikes took place, often including the names of homeowners…. But interestingly, the document stops recording civilian casualties after 2008, even omitting details of well-documented civilian deaths and those that have been acknowledged by the government."

 

Your job, fellow citizen, is to want not to know

 

That absence of information is the essence of any attempted cover-up. During the Watergate cover-up in 1972, an underling asked money-man Maurice Stans what a particularly unusual expenditure was for. Stans gave a response that is the essence of a cover-up: "I don't want to know, and you don't want to know." Stans was never convicted of being a knowing part of any of the crimes in which he took part.

 

Not knowing what criminal activity the government is up to makes you a good citizen (in the government's eyes), but you're an even better citizen if you don't even think about it. That's a value judgment Apple has tried to enforce in its role as a government surrogate in extending official thought control.

 

For his final thesis as a grad student at New York University, Josh Begley developed an app for the iPhone and then submitted it to Apple. He called the app Drones+ as he explained to Democracy

 

Now:

 

"And the idea for it was really simple: It would send you a push notification or just ping your phone every time there was a U.S. drone strike. Right? So, even if we [had] access to the data about drone strikes, do we really want to be interrupted by it, right? Do we really want to be as connected to our foreign policy as we are to our smartphones? Our phones, which are these increasingly intimate devices, right, the places that we share pictures of our loved ones and communicate with our friends … do we really want these things to also be the site of how we experience remote war? Right? In an age when it's possible to sit in an air-conditioned room in New Mexico and control an airplane as it hovers over a village in what used to be India, is there a way to close that feedback loop a little bit and actually feel something, even if it's just my pocket vibrating when the missile hits the ceiling?"

 

Apple tries acting like a self-appointed censor

 

In the summer of 2012, Apple's answer to Begley's questions was to reject his Drone+ app because it was, as Apple termed it, "excessively crude or objectionable content" and "not useful or entertaining enough." Begley was persistent. He said Apple ended up rejecting the app three times. Bad enough to try to count crude American assassinations of Pakistanis, but to expose an Apple user to the danger of feeling something about these war crimes, anyone could see that was objectionable.

 

But now, surprise – Begley's app is available for your Apple iPhone, thanks to a political workaround: he changed the name to Metadata+ and submitted it as an empty app. After they accepted it in that form, he loaded the data.

 

Now it turns out, from the first issue of The Intercept, drone crimes are more than a CIA executive action, in cahoots with the chief executive. The National Security (NSA) is in on it too, secretly sifting mobile phone metadata to assess, kind of ouija-board-like, which unknown phone user might be "bad" for the United States.

 

In other words, if you happen to pick up the wrong cell phone, your innocence isn't enough to keep you from getting dismembered. And Americans don't even have to know about it. The government just adds your anonymity to the body count and waits for those hearts and minds to start rolling in.

 

Maybe there's even an app for that.

 

World's most powerful man looking for help with law-breaking

 

And being American doesn't necessarily make you safe. Maybe you noticed the AP report on February 10 about how President Obama wants to take out an American citizen he says is a member of al-Qaeda and is planning to attack the United States, or so they say. The AP described the president's anguished position like this: "The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen. The Pentagon drones that could are barred from the country where he's hiding, and the Justice Department has not yet finished building a case against him."

 

The most powerful man in the world is not only hampered by not having a complete case on the suspect he wants to eliminate by executive action, the country the suspect is in doesn't allow U.S. drone strikes and, worse, the president's own new policy states that Americans in foreign countries can be killed only by the military, not the CIA. Talk about hoist by your own petard.

 

Of course if it were up to Congressman Mike Rogers and the other yahoos in Congress, the president could ignore all the niceties, including the U.S. Constitution (with its blather about due process and stuff), and just blow the suspect to kingdom come, along with anyone who happened to be within blast range. Rogers is a Michigan Republican who heads the House Intelligence Committee who has indicated he doesn't care how many constitutional principles or civilians need to be shredded to protect the troops.

 

As the first president of the war on terror once said, "They hate us for our freedoms."

 

Well, we're getting rid of our freedoms, so why would they still hate us?

 

It couldn't have anything to do with drones or night raids or assassinations or any of the other special operations the government tries to keep secret from its citizens, even though they're no secret to their targets.

 

Looks like the "war on terror" is actually a typo.

 

It's a war of terror.

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William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre, radio, TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years in the Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers Guild of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont Life magazine, and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.

Media Silence! Another river destroyed by Duke Energy & Dirty Coal!

DIRTY COAL is DIRTY from Mountain Top Removal to Coal Ash!

More than 500 mountains have been leveled, communities detroyed, drinking water contaminated and Dirty Coal doesn't have to clean up its mess.

Yet media remains silent, doesn't inform you of the Environmental Destruction caused.....

This is what Dirty Coal Ash did to Harriman, Tennessee.....

No state has restriction on COAL ASH STORAGE....Massachusetts is NOT safe because of the failure of Beacon Hill to address the issue.

Massachusetts has DIRTY COAL POWER PLANTS that contribute to this problem.

A leak at a power plant in Kingston, TN in 2009 spilled 1 billion gallons of coal ash. (photo: AP)

Up to 82,000 Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Spilled Into North Carolina River

By Joanna M. Foster, ThinkProgress

05 February 14

stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, North Carolina, burst Sunday afternoon - draining tens of thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River.

Duke Energy, which owns the Dan River Steam Station, retired since 2012, estimates that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from the 27-acre storage pond. The leak has at least temporarily been stopped, while Duke works on a more permanent solution. Coal ash is a toxic waste byproduct from burning coal, usually stored with water in large ponds.

 

The closest community at risk from the spill is Danville, Virginia, which takes its water from the Dan River about six miles downstream of the pond. No water quality issues have been reported so far.

 

"This is the latest, loudest alarm bell yet that Duke should not be storing coal ash in antiquated pits near our state's waterways," Frank Holleman, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) told the Charlotte Business Journal.

 

SELC and others have been calling for Duke to remove ash from earthen basins such as the one at Dan River to more secure lined ponds to protect local water sources. Duke has 14 coal-fired power plants in the state, 7 of which have been retired.

 

In addition to air pollution, coal-fired power plants generate millions of tons of waste every year contaminated with toxic metals including lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium, and selenium - more than two-thirds of which is dumped into landfills, storage ponds, or old mines.

 

The Southeast is home to 40 percent of the nation's coal ash impoundments, and according to the EPA contains 21 of the nation's 45 high hazard dams.

 

The nation's most notorious coal ash spill was in 2008 at a plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Just a few days before Christmas, over 1 billion gallons of coal ash burst through a dam at a storage pond and damaged or destroyed two dozen homes and 300 acres of riverfront property.

 

Late last month, the EPA announced plans to finalize the first-ever federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash by December 19, 2014. The announcement was part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought in 2012, by environmental and public health groups and a Native American tribe.

 

In October, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the EPA must review and revise its waste regulations under the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act. The EPA has never finalized any federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash - the nation's second-largest industrial waste stream.

 

Duke has also garnered negative publicity recently for saying that they believe the utility is paying its customers too much for the surplus solar energy generated on residential rooftops. Duke currently pays solar customers about 11 cents per kilowatt-hour, under a decade-old net-metering standard.

 

Electricity generated by large-scale solar operations costs the utility just 5 to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.

The rest from RSN:

Marc Ash | The Knox and Farrow Stories

Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "The decision to run the Amanda Knox and Dylan Farrow stories drew a fair amount of readership and a little controversy. The controversy typically began with the question, “Why did RSN chose to run this?”"
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Congressman Calls Greenwald a Thief, Greenwald Calls Him a Liar
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "A senior US legislator has accused the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald of illegally selling National Security Agency documents."
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Vulnerable Senate Democrats Are in Cross-Hairs of Koch-Backed Group
Matea Gold, The Washington Post
Gold reports: "The group's expansive efforts underscore its ascendancy as a force in American politics and illustrate how the traditional domain of political parties has been overtaken by independent groups."
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US Senate Showdown Vote Set to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Reuters
Excerpt: "In a bid to build support, Democrats included a provision to bar those earning more than $1 million a year from drawing unemployment checks."
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Fraud in Army Recruiting Bonus Program May Cost Nearly $100 Million
Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper reports: "Criminal investigators for the Army said soldiers, civilians and National Guard recruiters had used the program as a 'bounty' from which they could illegally collect money for recruiting soldiers."
READ MORE

Up to 82,000 Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Spilled Into North Carolina River
Joanna M. Foster, ThinkProgress
Foster reports: "A stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, North Carolina, burst Sunday afternoon."
READ MORE

FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Snowden Effect, Continued, Shit's Getting Real

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If [Congressman Mike Rogers]'s got evidence that Greenwald is selling these documents to anyone else, Rogers should show us what it is, or he should shut up."
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