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China Sends Fighters To ID Flights By US and Japan

Since proclaiming the air zone, China said it sent planes on the same day as foreign military flights to ID countries not honoring the notification rule.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — China launched two fighter planes Friday to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense zone over the East China Sea, state media said. It was the first time since proclaiming the zone on Nov. 23 that China said it sent planes there on the same day as foreign

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Government To Keep Ban On Bone Marrow Donors

Thousands of people with leukemia and other blood diseases are saved each year by bone marrow transplants.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Could paying for bone marrow cells really boost the number of donors? The Obama administration is taking steps to block a federal court ruling that had opened a way to find out. Buying or selling organs has long been illegal, punishable by five years in jail. The 1984 National Organ Transplantation Act that set the payment ban

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Walmart Workers Mobilize For ‘Unprecedented’ Nationwide Strikes

Massive turnout expected for strike against low wages, illegal retaliation.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

As the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday came early this year with an increasing amount of retailers opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day, employees for one of the largest big-box-stores in the country, Walmart, prepared protests for 1,500 locations nationwide. Organizers with the group OUR Walmart, who have helped rally Walmart

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Ethanol’s Rise Can Mean Loss Of Hunting Lands

Booming corn and soy prices mean less native prairie and fewer birds throughout the nation’s corn belt.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Pheasants once drew hundreds of weekend hunters to Fairbury, Neb., each fall, filling the 45 rooms at Randy Brown's Capri Motel with sportsmen eager to bag their limits. But times have changed. The native grasslands and milo crops that used to dot surrounding Jefferson County have been overtaken by corn and soy crops.

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Conspiracy Realists And The American Xenophobic Impulse

I am a conspiracy realist. Certain conspiracies are real. History shows conspiracy theorists are right much more often than the mobs that hunted them.

Edward Rhymes
بواسطة Edward Rhymes

"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." -- James Madison How many times have we witnessed the truth-teller

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Proposed Rule On Campaign Donations Promises To Reignite IRS Scandal Fight

Proposed rules change first solution offered by Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in May analysis of IRS crisis.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

In the wake of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, in which several organizations seeking code section 501(c)(4) distinction were discriminated against based on the groups’ political identity, the Obama administration has moved to tighten the IRS’s social-welfare definition to exclude political candidate campaigning. Under new guidelines

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