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The Koch brothers just kicked mass transit in the face

2015-02-03 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: A coalition of conservative pressure groups has defeated any hope that congressional Republicans would back a gas tax increase to fund our nations transportation. A higher gas tax is badly needed. The gas tax has not been raised since 1993, even to keep pace with inflation. As Americans drive less and vehicles become more efficient, gas tax revenue falls. Meanwhile, our infrastructure crumbles. But last Wednesday, some 50 anti-government groups, including Koch brothers front group Americans...

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North Korea kicked off the internet by giant DDoS: Was it the USA, or someone else?

2014-12-23 14:28:57| Extremetech

Yesterday evening, North Korea was unceremoniously knocked off the internet by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This comes shortly after the US government promised a 'proportional response' to the Sony Pictures hack, which the FBI believes was carried out by North Korea. While it would be rather funny if the US government was responsible for taking North Korea off the internet, it's more likely to be the actions of some disgruntled hacktivists such as Anonymous or Lizard Squad.

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UN Climate talks kicked off in Lima

2014-12-01 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times of India: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was kicked off in Peruvian capital on Monday with key UN body appealing the world to step up their actions to deal with disastrous consequences of global warming. How much burden each of the nations would share to save the world may be known only later in the run up to the Paris meeting, the current meetings - called COP20 (20th edition of the Conference...

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NASA's Swift mission probes an exotic object: 'Kicked' black hole or mega star?

2014-11-20 05:59:00| Electronics - Topix.net

Astronomers have discovered an unusual source of light in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away. The dwarf galaxy Markarian 177 and its unusual source SDSS1133 lie 90 million light-years away.

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