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The Web according to Samuel Rubenfeld, a journalist published in The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Dow Jones Newswires, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram, The Hill, Village Voice, Newsday, Times of Middle Country and my alma mater's campus newspaper, The Hofstra Chronicle.
I write the Corruption Currents blog, which is hosted on the Wall Street Journal's website.
I'm 26 and I live in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
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I write the Corruption Currents blog, which is hosted on the Wall Street Journal's website.
I'm 26 and I live in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr
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“It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem.”
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The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Read: Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone - NYTimes
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“The mayhem began just after the morning rush on Thursday: carjackings, robberies and a single man with a black gun on the loose in Queens. About eight hours later, a manhunt ended in Brooklyn with the arrest of Nicolas Almonte, 27, who is suspected of having taken at least three luxury vehicles at gunpoint, trying to steal a van, robbing a man of his cash on a Queens street and trying to wrest keys from a woman walking her dog.”
— Spree of Queens Carjackings Ends in an Arrest Hours Later - NYTimes.com
Treasury, State Place Sanctions on Iranian Companies, Individual - Risk & Compliance - WSJ
The U.S. Treasury and State Departments each placed sanctions on Iranian attempts to evade sanctions.
Treasury identified Sambouk Shipping FZC as being connected with Dimitris Cambis, a Greek businessman who, along with a network of other front companies, was placed under sanctions in March for using Iranian money to buy oil tankers to help Tehran ship crude oil in violation of U.S. and European Union sanctions.
Cambis is using Sambouk, which Treasury said was “recently formed,” to manage eight of the vessels he operates on behalf of the National Iranian Tanker Co., Treasury said. The vessels have been used to perform ship-to ship transfers of Iranian crude in the Persian Gulf to help obscure the oil’s origin, facilitating deceptive sales, it said.
BSGR Confirms Engaging Agent in Guinea Charged with Obstruction - Risk & Compliance - WSJ
BSG Resources Ltd. said in a lengthy statement responding to an assortment of allegations that it worked alongside a French man accused in U.S. federal court of obstructing a foreign bribery investigation.
The statement, titled “Response to press speculation,” was issued Thursday by Guernsey-based BSG Resources in light of media reports looking into its operations in Guinea, it said.
BSG reiterated that allegations of any improper conduct relating to how the company obtained a mining license in Guinea “are entirely baseless and motivated by an ongoing campaign to seize the assets” of the company. Guinea’s government is probing whether BSG paid bribes to get the license.
“If what irritates non-Millenials about the current generation of young adults, male and female alike, isn’t just that they’re self-absorbed, or entitled, or dependent, but self-absorbed, entitled, and dependent in feminine ways, that’s telling.”
Top Editors Abruptly Leave Village Voice - NY Times
Will Bourne and Jessica Lustig are exiting because they say were instructed to cut five positions on the 20-person staff.
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“In downtown New York City, two hospitals 63 blocks apart varied by 321 percent in the prices they charged to treat complicated cases of asthma or bronchitis. One charged an average of $34,310; the other billed, on average, $8,159.”
Brutally long work day punctuated by a meeting with a realtor for my landlord, who is selling the building. I have to move before the sale clears.
News Corp. Posts $42 Million Charge on Phone-Hacking Scandal - Risk & Compliance - WSJ
News Corp. said Wednesday it spent $42 million in the quarter that ended March 31 on costs tied to an ongoing investigation into a series of scandals that it initiated when the company closed its weekly tabloid, News of the World.
