Thursday, August 08, 2013

FSRN Daily Digest, Thursday, 08 August, 2013

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT
  • New deadly drone strikes in Yemen
  • Suicide bombing in Quetta kills dozens at funeral for policeman
  • Surge in bombings and shootings across Iraq
  • Dream 9 released from Arizona detention center
  • Texas organization calling for boycott of stores opposed to fair pay legislation
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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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