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Midday News Feeds – Tuesday, 5 Feb 2013

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On Gun Violence: Obama in Minneapolis

As the debate over guns after Newtown moves into the often bitterly partisan halls of Congress, President Obama flew Monday to the Midwest to remind the country there’s more unity on gun control than the rancorous debate in the nation’s capital might suggest

Read More: Minneapolis’ Progressive Approach to Reducing Gun Violence

Read More: PCCC Ad Targets Mitch McConnell on Gun Control

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Violence Against Women Act Flying Toward Senate Passage

The Senate overwhelmingly agreed Monday to advance legislation reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, winning over strong bipartisan support to bypass a filibuster and consider the renewal of domestic abuse funding that is currently on life support. […]

“It is unthinkable that Republicans in the House would prevent us from taking action – again refuse to do anything as they did last Congress,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said before the vote Monday. “Allowing partisan delays to put women’s lives at risk is simply shameful. … I hope the Senate’s bipartisan action this week will send a strong message to House Republican leaders that further partisan delay is unacceptable.”

Read More: Eight Senators Vote To Block Violence Against Women Act

Read More: DCCC Ad Targets Eric Cantor over VAWA

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Hillary Clinton Debuts New Website

Hillary Clinton appears to have a new website. So far, hillaryclintonoffice.com has a picture of the former secretary of state and a form for contacting her.

Read More: Hillary Clinton: The Most Powerful Woman in American Politics

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S&P expects U.S. lawsuit over pre-crisis credit ratings

Feb 4 (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s said it expects to be the target of a U.S. Department of Justice civil lawsuit over its mortgage bond ratings, the first federal enforcement action against a credit rating agency over alleged illegal behavior tied to the recent financial crisis.

Read More: McGraw-Hill Tumbles Most Since ’87 as U.S. Prepares S&P Lawsuit

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CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries ‘offered covert support’

The full extent of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the publication of a report showing there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world’s governments covertly offered support.

A 213-page report compiled by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a New York-based human rights organisation, says that at least 54 countries co-operated with the global kidnap, detention and torture operation that was mounted after 9/11, many of them in Europe.

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Quick Takes …

Sea Urchins Chalk Up Global Warming Win

Sunshine may ‘reduce arthritis risk’

‘Well, That Was Cool,’ Say Archaeologists Before Dumping Bones Of King Richard III Back Into Hole

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Where do you news? The following is a table of news and opinion sites from around the world.

  TPM Livewire     ThinkProgress.org     The Onion  
  the guardian     Salon     The American Prospect  
  Newseum News     Newseum Front Pages     The Daily Beast  
  Mother Jones     Discovery News     BBC  
  McClatchy     Reuters     NPR News  

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  6. jlms qkw

    from around the world.  esp if they use the reporter’s name on the article.  

    for entertainment & tech, there’s i09 and wired and others.

    i lean toward lesser-known news, or a more local perspective.  

    it is always really hard to find china news in english.  that isn’t produced by the chinese government.  

  7. jlms qkw

    Equal Marriage in Britain: Progress!

    Truly historic step forward’ passed by 400 to 175 votes

    ParliamentMPs have voted by a majority of 225 in favour of the new Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. The Bill will extend the legal form of marriage to lesbian, gay and bisexual people and permit religious denominations to celebrate such marriages should they wish.

    Stonewall Chief Executive Ben Summerskill said: ‘As the last piece of the legislative jigsaw providing equality for gay people in Britain, this is a truly historic step forward. We’re absolutely delighted that MPs have demonstrated so overwhelmingly that they’re in touch with the twenty-first century.

  8. iriti

    The Onion publishes. Because some of it is more likely than the real news.

    I have a weird approach – I put a of news sources and some media folks in my twitter feed (I don’t actually tweet, I just read my feed) and get lots of up-to-the-minute links there.

    I also scan Google News aggregator and a couple of MSM sites morning and evening, but honestly most things I find I’ve already read in an article linked on twitter.

    I will not watch the news-o-tainment on any channel. Including MSNBC. Cannot tolerate the blathering heads.

  9. BlueStateRedhead

    ….but in neither plane, e.g. a drone nor a helicopter. nor is it superman which leaves a bird,  and therefore

    a moose-ummingbird

  10. Chris Blask

    in this case regarding our ability to reverse climate change while not living in cold, damp homes:

    Experts at Newcastle University, UK, have discovered that in the presence of a Nickel catalyst, CO2 can be converted rapidly and cheaply into the harmless, solid mineral, calcium carbonate.

    “The beauty of a Nickel catalyst is that it carries on working regardless of the pH and because of its magnetic properties it can be re-captured and re-used time and time again. It’s also very cheap – 1,000 times cheaper than the enzyme.  And the by-product – the carbonate – is useful and not damaging to the environment.

    “What our discovery offers is a real opportunity for industries such as power stations and chemical processing plants to capture all their waste CO2 before it ever reaches the atmosphere and store it as a safe, stable and useful product.”

    This is another sign of the “closed loop” industrial processes which will evolve during the 21st century. Over the next few years, if the research holds up (which seems highly likely), it would surprise me to not see vendors offering products to power and other industrial companies that have 100% carbon capture. The calcium carbonate sales to other industrial consumers will probably pay for the new equipment (I can hear business folks and engineers doing the math as we speak), further accelerating the production of consumer goods with lower-to-no negative environmental impact.

    Take that, Paul Ehrlich, you fuck.

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