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Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Monday, April 17, 2023

Substations beware: 'Accelerationists' see power grid attacks as way to create chaos, end contemporary society

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Photo from TPM via Getty Images If all forces result from interactions, the cross-mix of technology and capitalism has supporters and haters...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

Remembering 9/11 with an editorial written the day after

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This week, it seems that the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is being remembered by most newspapers, even weeklies that pay ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Fact-checking President Biden's inauguration speech

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President Biden "delivered a traditional speech at his inauguration that offered little for fact-checkers," FactCheck.org says . ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Republicans tout Trump's law-and-order bona fides on third day of Republican convention; Pence gets fact-checked

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On the third day of the Republican National Convention, speakers continued to  stress familiar themes: that President Trump "is on the...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

States get ranked for their health emergency preparedness; how does yours stack up?

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Map by the National Health Security Preparedness Index; click the image to enlarge it. The nation's overall ability to manage healt...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Fact checking the final presidential debate on voter fraud, national debt, border security, refugees

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The final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump contained plenty of factual errors. We only have room here for a f...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Rural-urban gap grows on immigration, trade, led by Trump's call for walls, border restrictions

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Sadiq Khan Integration, inclusion and openness, not walls, suspicion and profiling, are the best chance to defuse terror and maximize e...

Rural areas that attract many tourists should be on alert for terrorist activity, suspicious behavior

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While major cities are often the target of terrorist attacks, officials say rural areas, especially ones that attract large numbers of to...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Fact-checking convention claims on national debt, taxes, Benghazi

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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, vice presidential nominee (Photo from The Detroit News ) The Republican National Convention has completed its ...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Poll: Large farmers and ranchers favor Trump, dissatisfied with current government

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U.S. farmers and ranchers are more likely to support a Republican presidential candidate and favor businessman Donald Trump as their top ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Rural residents say relocating Guantánamo Bay inmates to Southern Colorado will hurt tourism

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Rural residents in Southern Colorado, which is home to seven state and four federal prisons that house some of the most notorious criminal...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Editor in Davis' native county: Roof 'may have also killed some of the last remnants of the Old South'

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In the Kentucky Capitol rotunda, Jefferson Davis looks at Abe Lincoln (Courier-Journal) Almost four weeks have passed since the killing...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Drug dealers and terrorists using drones; unmanned aircraft are hard to detect or stop

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Drones are becoming the hot new toy for criminals and terrorists because they are unmanned and difficult to detect and stop, Jack Nicas re...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

County-level maps detail all federally declared disasters from 1964-2014

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Disasters are more likely to occur in California and Oklahoma, but no U.S. county is immune to them, according to county-level data of disas...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Texas' anti-terror law on ammonium nitrate fails to keep citizens safe, Dallas Morning News finds

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Dallas Morning News map; click it for larger version In 2007, Texas passed a law to keep ammonium nitrate away from terrorists, but the...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Pure form of chemical that caused West Fertilizer explosion is banned in some countries

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Several countries have banned pure ammonium nitrate because it is so explosive. The chemical is being blamed for the West Fertilizer expl...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Donations for Boston victims far surpass those for victims of more damaging fertilizer blast in Texas

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Donations for victims of the Boston bombings have surpassed $26 million, which shows the support of the nation when disaster strikes. Yet...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Small daily newspaper's conservative editorial page tells local 'dim bulbs' to stop stereotyping Iraqis

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Some Americans have developed an intolerance or even fear of people of Middle Eastern decent, often thinking anyone from a place like Iraq ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Western foresters think terrorists might start fires

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Western land managers said they received notice from the Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday that terrorists might start forest fire...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Remembrances of, and resources for, 9/11

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The Rural Blog is published primarily for rural news media, most of which stick to events and issues in their own communities, especially if...