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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say that the elevated gamma radiation levels around the Hanford site, America’s largest nuclear waste storage facility, is down to natural causes However a few inconsistencies have been found in the EPA’s claims as Russia Today’s Alexey Yaroshevsky has discovered: RT has reported extensively on the situation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear storage facility since various leaks and injuries to workers were reported.

• European Stocks Fall as Chinese Economic Data Disappoint (WSJ)
• Oil Climbs to Highest Since November as European Shares Retreat (BBG)
• Yen weakens on Japan intervention talk before G7 meets (Reuters)
• Wall Street’s Bond Forecasters Splinter as Fed Credibility Wanes (BBG)
• Amazon to Expand Private-Label Offerings—From Food to Diapers (WSJ)
• Oil prices rise on Nigerian outages, Goldman forecast (Reuters)
• 'Avengers' threaten new insurgency in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta (Reuters)

I have to admit, I found David Samuels’s defense of his now-infamous New York Times Magazine article to be delightfully amusing. From my perspective, the important paragraph of his defense is this one:

In a shocking slap in the face for UK PM Cameron, more than 300 business leaders are calling on Britain to vote to leave the European Union, saying that the country’s "competitiveness is being undermined by our membership." As The Telegraph reports, the letter, signed by some of Europe's most senior business executives, claims Brussels "red tape stifles growth" and a Brexit would "create more jobs" exclaiming that "it is business - not government - which generates wealth."