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Today's three tiers include; Number One, With A Whole-Lotta Bullets, Trash, Heeped, & Generation Vexed. For links to today's headlines, click "Read more" below.
1. Number One, With A Whole-Lotta Bullets
In devising a plan in Iraq, US looks to its Yemen model
Did you know ISIS’ military commander in Iraq was trained by the United States?
http://thebulletin.org/isis-unsurprising-surprise-sweeping-iraq7251
Pentagon official: Libya a ‘magnet’ for terrorists
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/210592-pentagon-official-libya-a-magnet-for-terrorists
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf
House Continues Overspending Spree with New Defense Bill
No one builds bases like Americans
http://thebulletin.org/no-one-builds-bases-americans7258
2. Trash, Heeped
What's the environmental impact of all those World Cup flags?
Plastic Waste Causes $13 Billion in Damages to Marine Ecosystems Each Year
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/23/plastic-waste-13-billion-marine-ecosystems/
It’s Frack, Baby, Frack, as Conventional Gas Drilling Declines [Infographic]
Leaky Methane Makes Natural Gas Bad for Global Warming
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leaky-methane-makes-natural-gas-bad-for-global-warming/
Global warming puts trillions at stake, but mitigation offers big economic gains
http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0625-hance-climate-change-dual-reports.html
The Deodorant Spray That Eats Pollution (and Will Keep Your Stadium Clean)
3. Generation Vexed
Generation X: America’s neglected ‘middle child’
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/05/generation-x-americas-neglected-middle-child/
This Millennial Bro Is Running for Congress Using the Family Trust Fund
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/mike-turner-millennial-congress-family-trust-fund
Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn't
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138
A Millennial’s Agrarian Anomie
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-millennials-agrarian-anomie/
THIS WEEK IN GOOD NEWS!
A Lifetime of Intellectual Stimulation Staves Off Dementia
University of Dayton divests from fossil fuels
http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/university-dayton-divests-fossil-fuels
Goodbye, Pacific garbage patch: a teenager’s invention may clean it up
ODDS & ENDS
What Really Happened in Congo: The CIA, the Murder of Lumumba & the Rise of Mobutu
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141523/stephen-r-weissman/what-really-happened-in-congo
U.S.-Egyptian “Historic Partnership” Reeks with Hypocrisy
http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/26/us-egyptian-historic-partnership-reeks-o
Israel accepts first delivery of disputed Kurdish pipeline oil
http://news.yahoo.com/first-oil-delivery-disputed-kurdish-pipeline-set-israel-100744734.html
The Strong Female Voice of Hamas
Japan unveils 'world's first' android newscaster
Lockheed's Vision: Autonomous Drones With Lasers
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/lockheeds-vision-autonomous-drones-lasers
Rich countries pay zombie fishing boats $5 billion a year to plunder the seas
http://qz.com/225432/rich-countries-pay-zombie-fishing-boats-5-billion-a-year-to-plunder-the-seas/
The dark side of the Italian tomato
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2014/06/dark-side-italian-tomato-20146261186932592.html
Cancer 'as Old as Multi-Cellular Life on Earth': Researchers Discover a Primordial Cancer in a Primitive Animal
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624092530.htm
Inventing Money: Greek town invented its own currency to ward-off the pains of forced austerity
http://www.smh.com.au/tv/current-affairs/show/dateline/making-money-5000388.html
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