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NFL, 4,500 players reach $765 million settlement in concussion lawsuits

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“The NFL has reached a $765 million settlement with more than 4,500 former players who brought suit against the league for brain injuries suffered on the field, according to court documents released on Thursday.  As part of the settlement, the NFL will not be considered liable for these injuries, and it also avoids an admission that the injuries were caused by football.  Retired players suing the league over the issue argued that the NFL knowingly concealed the long-term effects of concussions and head trauma caused by playing the game.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/29/nfl-4500-players-reach-765-million-settlement-in-lawsuits-that-claim-league-hid-concussion-risks/

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‘Our Comprehensive Middle-East Policy’

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Lawmaker: My ‘gut feeling’ says Syria got chemical weapons from Iraq

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“While admitting to not having any information on the matter, Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) still offered speculation based on his ‘gut feeling’ that the Syrian government acquired chemical weapons from Iraq, the Huffington Post reported.  ‘I have not had any classified briefing, but all we know is that Iraq had declared chemical and biological weapons, and then they weren’t there,’ Terry told radio host Tom Becka on Thursday. ‘It wasn’t something that the U.S. was guessing, that was something that they actually declared. But they went someplace.’  Terry, who supported the U.S. campaign to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, said Syria was a different situation.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/nebraska-republican-lawmaker-my-gut-feeling-says-syria-got-chemical-weapons-from-iraq/

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Who Built the Syrian Electronic Army?

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“A hacking group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has been getting an unusual amount of press lately, most recently after hijacking the Web sites of The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. But surprisingly little light has been shed on the individuals behind these headline-grabbing attacks. Beginning today, I’ll be taking a closer look at this organization, starting with one of the group’s core architects.”

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/who-built-the-syrian-electronic-army/

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Fast food workers strike in 50 cities to demand wages of $15/hour, right to unionize

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“The protest movement first began in New York last November with a strike by 200 workers but quickly spread across the country with strikes in July taking place in Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Kansas City, Milwaukee and St Louis. On Thursday organizers said the strike will hit some 1,000 major fast-food restaurants, including Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC. ‘Hold the burgers, hold the fries, make worker wages supersize!’ read a tweet from Fight for 15, a workers organizing committee.  ‘Many of these workers have children and are trying to support a family,’ said Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union, which is supporting the strike.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/29/fast-food-workers-strike-in-50-cities-to-demand-wages-of-15hour-right-to-unionize/

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Can Germany Really Tax Bitcoin?

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“The government says it will treat them like stocks or precious metals. That means you pay 25 percent flat tax if you’ve held bitcoins for less than a year. But no one can explain to me that I should ever prove to a person from the tax office that I was actually in control of a certain private key at a certain time or time span. You just can’t prove it. We don’t even know how to prove it.  The next question is, is value added tax to be paid if you buy bitcoins? The government said it should be subject to value added tax. But that’s contradictory to the first statement when the government says it’s subject to capital gains.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/can-germany-really-tax-bitcoin

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Latest War is a Defense Bureaucrat’s Wet Dream

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“The Pentagon is in a pickle. It has expensive tastes: war, tomorrow’s gadgets, employing nearly half a million people and a first-rate military with all the bells, whistles and toys. It even likes its cost-cutting initiatives to be expensive. But those things cost money, and there’s no more moolah. So it’s forced to prioritize. Ugh. If only there were some newfangled type of warfare. Something cheaper, cleaner, less taboo… but that posed more of a threat than traditional types of warfare. Then the Pentagon could keep its funding… maybe even increase it.  Hrmm… huh?… What’s this? ‘DCAF Horizon 2015 Working Paper on Cyberwarfare.'”

http://dailyreckoning.com/latest-war-is-a-defense-bureaucrats-wet-dream/

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Burning Up the West: Feds, Greens Cause Catastrophic Fires

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“Wildfires occur naturally and have always been a part of the seasonal cycle in the West, but the size and intensity of the fires have dramatically increased in recent years due, in large measure, to the gross mismanagement of the national forests by the U.S. Forest Service and the incessant lawsuits of radical environmentalists that have thwarted all reasonable attempts at proper forest management. The unconscionable destruction of our vast forests, watersheds, and wildlife habitat is the inevitable result of policies and practices imposed by federal politicians and bureaucrats, in tandem with the obstructionist programs of extreme environmental activists.”

http://thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/16396-burning-up-the-west-feds-greens-cause-catastrophic-fires

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NSA promises transparency by launching new Tumblr blog

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“IC on the Record will host official statements, declassified documents, speeches, interviews, fact sheets and videos among other content. Plans for the blog were announced by President Barack Obama earlier in August, as part of promises for more transparency on the activities of the US intelligence community in the wake ofrecent revelations about the NSA and its PRISM program of electronic surveillance. The IC on the Record blog was launched with a post by US director of national intelligence James Clapper, who has been criticised recently after he apologised for misleading a Senate hearing by denying that the NSA collects information about US citizens.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/22/nsa-promises-transparency-by-launching-new-tumblr-blog/

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NSA; The Not Secure Agency

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“It’s not a ‘sophisticated’ bypass, the NSA didn’t protect databases from Database and Systems Administrators.  Here’s a blog article by a database security product vendor’s research group about this widely known problem from January of last year. Even then, the information in the blog article was long in the tooth.  This implies that everything the NSA has said about the careful auditing they do to prevent unauthorized access by employees and contractors is a joke – it’s not possible when you don’t take these basic precautions.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/nsa-not-secure-agency.html

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