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Report: Obama Can Authorize Pre-emptive Cyber Attack
2013-02-04 22:35:20| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Intelligence officials have determined that the president of the United States has the power to launch a pre-emptive strike if a major cyber attack is imminent, according to the New York Times.
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Outgoing EPA chief convinced Obama serious on climate change
2013-02-04 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The departing chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, says she cringes whenever she is asked if President Barack Obama is truly serious about confronting climate change. Of course he is, she tells them. "I don't think you need clues. The president has been really clear ... I'm not sure how much clearer he could be." And yet even Jackson herself was caught off guard last month, when sitting just steps from Obama during his second-term swearing-in, the president cited...
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Report: Obama Can Authorize Pre-emptive Cyber Attack
2013-02-04 19:34:37| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Intelligence officials have determined that the president of the United States has the power to launch a pre-emptive strike if a major cyber attack is imminent, according to the New York Times.
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Gore Presses Obama to Follow Through on Climate Change Promises
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama "has to follow through" on his commitment to address climate change, even if it means using executive powers to get around congressional gridlock, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Obama should "move boldly" on the agenda he articulated in his second inaugural address, which included strong words about addressing climate change, Gore said in an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." While efforts to tackle climate change would run into GOP opposition in Congress,...
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Pressure builds for Obama to link oil sands pipelines to climate change
2013-02-04 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: President Obama hasn't publicly drawn a connection between climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline, but new pressure is building on him and other officials to connect those dots. Protests are springing up from Maine to Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma urging leaders to stop the Keystone XL and other oil sands import projects on climate change grounds. The Texas-bound Keystone XL is the biggest of many projects being proposed to connect Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and export ports. Protesters...
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