- Headlines for Thursday, August 8, 2013
- NSA surveillance casts wider net on communications between US and abroad
- A majority of the world could face water shortage within one or two generations
- As Obama cites housing recovery, working poor continue to struggle to secure homes
- Records show ALEC used secretive fund to finance junkets for legislators
Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:58 PM PDT
New
details have emerged showing government surveillance of US citizens
and foreign nationals to be even broader than previously known.
According to anonymous intelligence officials who spoke to the New York
Times, the government is searching most of the e-mail and text
communications both entering and leaving the US. That includes not only
monitoring those who talk to suspicious persons abroad, but also those
who talk about them. In Washington, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:57 PM PDT
Within
one or two generations, a majority of the world’s nine billion people
will face severe shortages of fresh water. That’s according to findings
from a coalition of scientists in a document called, the Bonn
Declaration on Global Water Security. The organization, made up of some
500 leading water scientists, also says the problems are largely
self-inflicted and makes urgent recommendations. For more we’re joined
by Dr.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:57 PM PDT
President
Obama continued his focus on housing today, holding an online event in
which the public could submit questions about owning, buying or
renting a home. This follows a speech earlier this week in Arizona in
which he touted a housing recovery in which prices are rising and new
home sales are up. But while that may be good news for a portion of the
country, it doesn’t help the working poor, who are facing rising
rents, stagnant wages and cuts to government housing programs.
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Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:55 PM PDT
In
Chicago, protests continue against ALEC, the American Legislative
Exchange Council, which is holding its annual conference in the city.
Residents are condemning the corporate-funded group’s anti-worker,
anti-immigrant and gun stances, which critics say have led to
controversial measures like Arizona’s SB1070 and Florida’s Stand Your
Ground law.
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