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Monday Humor? America's "Most Polluted" Nuclear Weapons Site To Become National Park

On Sunday, we brought you “Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown,” in which we highlighted a piece from Sean Adl-Tabatabai who asks whether government-funded researchers are intentionally downplaying rising levels of radiation in the Pacific Ocean stemming from the 2011 meltdown in Japan.  

Uber-corruption? New taxi service threatens good-paying US jobs while enriching a few insiders

A situation is brewing in cities all across the United States while millions of dollars in profits are on the table and hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. In the current US neoliberal system, the winners are the few on the inside and the losers are all of the rest of us. This is especially true while the taxi industry undergoes a game-changing transformation.

Dramatic Amateur Video Captures Moment Deadly Landslide Buries 33 Buildings In Shenzhen

Dramatic Amateur Video Captures Moment Deadly Landslide Buries 33 Buildings In Shenzhen

In a year marked by numerous dramatic (and often deadly) infrastructure failures in China's industrial sector, culminating with several deadly explosions at its port towns, the latest tragedy to strike took place yesterday in China's southern town of Shenzhen where at least 91 people were missing after a giant mound of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump site in a southern China boomtown and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.

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