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• Syria admits downed army helicopter was in Turkish airspace - FT.com

  "Syria has admitted that its helicopter shot down on Monday was in Turkish airspace but accused Ankara of being “hasty” in attacking the aircraft. However, Bulent Arinc, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said the helicopter was shot down after it had travelled 2km into Turkish airspace and had been repeatedly warned."

  tags: syria turkey war middleeast damascus ankara

• Rousseff to decide if US visit will go ahead - FT.com

  "Revelations that the US National Security Agency monitored everything from Ms Rousseff’s personal communications with her staff to the affairs of state-owned oil company Petrobras have rocked Brazil. "

  tags: brazil nsa spying obama unitedstates

• Study points to vast shale oilfields - FT.com

  "Shale oilfields in countries such as Argentina, Russia and Algeria hold larger reserves than the regions at the heart of the US energy boom, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to global crude supplies in the next decade, according to new research. "

  tags: shale oil energy unitedstates russia algeria argentina power

• There’s no way to stop the lucrative Israeli occupation | The National

  "Many Palestinians have come to understand that Israel could not disengage from them, even if it wanted to. They see that the land of the West Bank is simply too valuable, that holding the Palestinian economy captive is too lucrative and that the appeasement of radical Jewish settlers is too convenient; for these reasons Israel is unwilling to end its control and really begin to move towards a two state solution. All but the most starry-eyed and emotional supporters of the two- state solution can now clearly see the reality of the current situation: Israel has built its system of domination into the very fabric of life for all between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, but at the same time had been timidly reticent to take responsibility for the results of its actions."

  tags: palestine israel occupation middleeast oslo

• Japan Warned U.S. of Blackouts in Appeal for LNG Supply - Bloomberg

  "The U.S. Department of Energy was informed by Japanese officials that the world’s third-largest economy risked a catastrophic power failure as it prepared to close its last operating atomic reactor last year. Those warnings, detailed in redacted documents released to Bloomberg News by the U.S. Energy Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, reverberate today after Japan idled its only operating nuclear plant for routine repairs."

  tags: japan power energy unitedstates

• The Feel-Good Promise of Wellness Programs - Bloomberg

  "Programs such as Penn State’s are not uncommon. According to an analysis by the Rand Corp., half of all large organizations -- those with 50 or more employees -- have wellness plans. In general, such programs use financial incentives to encourage employees to monitor and improve their health through designated assessments and lifestyle-modification programs. Some wellness programs use financial incentives to motivate compliance, like getting employees to complete a health-risk assessment. Others use them to penalize poor performance -- for example, charging people more for smoking or having a high body mass index. Penn State’s includes both components, as do those of many other large employers."

  tags: health preventivehealth wellnessprograms unitedstates healthcare

• The Federal Reserve: Summers over | The Economist

  "IT WAS only a coincidence that Larry Summers withdrew as a candidate for Federal Reserve chairman five years to the day after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. But it was, in a way, fitting: Mr Summers’s surprise decision, conveyed in a letter to Barack Obama on September 15th, would not have been necessary without the forces unleashed by Lehman’s failure in 2008. "

  tags: summers fed money fiscalpolicy unitedstates obama

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