December 2011
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WatchAmerica spends over $500 billion every year so that elderly Medicare patients can get the care they need. But as health care costs rise, many are taking a closer look at what exactly we’re paying for. We’ve been conducting a yearlong investigation into a prominent hospital chain in California that is reporting unusually high rates of serious diseases. Watch our video on this story,...
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Contractor earns $46M to dispose of all that crazy... →
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Fireworks. Medical needles. Insect spray. Cooking fuel. Flammable gas torches. Ammunition. Yes, people forget they have cooking fuel in their travel bags. Or, amazingly, they thought it was acceptable in the first place to take cooking fuel onto an airplane.
So what happens to all that bizarre crap security screeners have to confiscate? It doesn’t just disappear, after all....
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WatchHey Tumblrs - Thanks for following us throughout the year! We’ve had fun engaging with you about both our own and other great investigative reporting from around the world.
For those of you who may not be familiar with our history, we were founded in 1977 and are the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is...
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WatchThe Long March of Newt Gingrich: Part One - In January 1996, as the country headed into a presidential election year, FRONTLINE aired The Long March of Newt Gingrich, an investigative biography of the outspoken and controversial Speaker of the House. This was a co-production with CIR.
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“Given the timing of my response, and the fact that I typically received emails...”
– James Murdoch, insisting he never actually read an email sent to him that warned about wiretapping at News of the World. (via officialssay)
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Support the Center for Investigative Reporting
Hi Tumblrs! We’re interrupting for a moment to ask for your support. This holiday season, take a moment to support the Center for Investigative Reporting so we can continue to reveal injustice and produce the investigative reporting you depend on! Want to learn about the impact of our work? Read more below from our Executive Director Robert J. Rosenthal.
Since 1977, CIR has been on the...
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As Egyptians move into the second phase of elections this week, Sandy Tolan explores the debate over food policy in the wake of what some are calling the “revolution of the hungry.”
The Food for 9 Billion series is a collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting, Homelands Productions, PBS Newshour and American Public Media’s Marketplace.
Listen here.
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New website makes it startlingly easy to see what... →
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I don’t use online file-sharing networks to download copyrighted music and movies, not due to some position I take on the matter, but mostly because I’m paranoid about linking my computer to anything that can feasibly inject malicious software. So I didn’t hesitate to drop by the site Youhavedownloaded.com, because I knew they wouldn’t have any records of my Internet activity....
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SWAT team, bomb squad and Predator drone all... →
From CIR’s investigative reporter G.W. Schulz. If you’re not following him on Tumblr do so here!
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You’re gonna to love this, people of the Tumblr world. Some cows went missing in North Dakota, right? Six in all. Here is what local authorities decided was necessary to search for said bovine:
A SWAT team
A bomb squad
The highway patrol
Deputies from three...
“North Korea is approaching a catastrophic situation for vulnerable populations...”
– David Austin, North Korea Program Director for Mercy Corps. Read the full story: Aid Groups: Children in North Korea at Risk for Starvation this Winter via PBS NewsHour. (via pulitzercenter)
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“I don’t think the levels that are approved for use in wine in the EU and...”
– Wendell Lee, general counsel for the Wine Institute, the trade group for California’s wine industry. Lee commented on the news that the Australian government has given the nod to winemakers to begin using a chemical contained in laxatives.
While the chemical, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, has...
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Fewer face deportation because of criminal...
The number of people facing deportation because of criminal charges has declined steadily the past three fiscal years, according to data released by the U.S. Justice Department.
Instead, in California and beyond, a growing number are accused only of entering the United States without permission.
The Obama administration has pledged to focus its immigration enforcement on “criminal aliens,”...
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Couldn't this same technology be used for piecing... →
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It’s known as the Shredder Challenge. The military’s think tank of crack technology researchers known as DARPA launched a curious contest earlier this year that few people thought was actually possible: Develop a computer algorithm that can aid in reassembling shredded documents. The idea was to figure out how war fighters could extract useful intelligence from them as quickly...
“Lol.”
– The emailed reaction of Tim Miller, a spokesman for Jon Huntsman’s presidential campaign, upon being asked if Huntsman would participate in next month’s GOP debate moderated by Donald Trump and sponsored by conservative website Newsmax.
“We look forward to watching Mitt and Newt suck-up to The...
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The Atlantic: My AIDS Story: Still Foreign After... →
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jcorr0910 writes:
My family has been dealing directly with HIV and AIDS for almost 30 years, yet the disease and its effects still feel so foreign to me. My father, a hemophiliac, contracted HIV in early 1982 after a blood transfusion shortly after I was conceived. He died in 1991 when I was right, my sister 10. Coming from a large family, he had three brothers, and three...