Christopher Marshall's List: 2.5 Researching Credible Connection

• NBC News' Andrea Mitchell contributed to this report.
• First published March 13th 2014, 11:34 am
• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that the international community could soon take action against Russia’s advances in the Ukraine and that he spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday
• Published March 13th 2014, 11:35 am
• the territorial integrity of Ukraine is not up for discussion
• According to a new poll released on Wednesday, support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left government coalition grew in recent weeks as a result of her leadership role in the Crimea Crisis
• First published March 13th 2014, 11:38 am
• Ukraine Crisis
• Erin McClam is a senior writer for NBC News, responsible for reporting, writing and editing general news for NBCNews.com. Prior to joining the site in January 2013, McClam worked at The Associated Press, where he spent 13 years and was most recently financial markets editor. In that role, McClam was responsible for a team of five reporters and a deputy editor that covered the stock and bond markets, financial regulation and the nation's largest banks.
  
  Prior to that role, McClam held a variety of jobs at AP, including being a national correspondent and an original member of its Top Stories Desk editing operation.
  

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• Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie is a member of The Catholic Association Advisory Board
• She says Pope Francis wants Catholics, bravely, out of their bunkers
• stirred up hearts
• minds,
• He has sparked admiration and consternation, and most of all, he has inspired wide-flung interest and debate. It seems the voice of the vicar of Rome, even in this secularist age, has tremendous carrying power.
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• Global military spending was down in 2012 for the first time since 1998. And for the second year in a row, arms sales from private industry to governments were down as well last year.
• In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Dr. Samuel Perlo-Freeman, director of the SIPRI Programme on Military Expenditure and Arms Production, said that while government military spending is waning in the United States and Western Europe, many developing countries are increasing their expenditures. Arms sellers in several countries, most notably Russia, are benefiting from their nation’s military budget expansion, Perlo-Freeman noted. While U.S. military expenses declined in 2012, Russia’s increased by an estimated 16% that year.
• 5. General Dynamics
• Arms sales have remained concentrated among the same small number of companies for more than a decade. The top 10 companies have largely remained in place because industry consolidation in the 1990s made them dominant players, even through fluctuations in government military spending.
• 3. BAE Systems
• 4. Raytheon
• 1. Lockheed Martin
• 2. Boeing

• The arms industry has always been associated with corruption both in international arms transfers and sometimes in domestic procurement.” 

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• 5.5 million Syrian children thrown into peril by civil war, 19 U.S. senators have introduced a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to develop and send to Congress “a more robust U.S. strategy for addressing the Syrian humanitarian crisis."
• UNICEF, Save the Children, World Vision and Dr. Nancy Snyderman of NBC News — detailing in personal terms the 5.5 young victims of the bloody Syrian conflict, including those displaced inside the country and in refugee camps in neighboring countries
• — Jeff Black
• First published March 13th 2014, 7:41 pm
• You have to do everything to protect yourself.
• There are "almost 38,000 Syrian children who are born as refugees outside of their own country," Dr. Nancy Snyderman told TODAY Wednesday.

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• Wireless electricity? It's here
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  By Matthew Ponsford and Nick Glass, CNN   updated 9:51 AM EDT, Fri March 14, 2014
• Dr Katie Hall is developing was to transfer power without wires
• The technology could lead to new and revolutionary medical devices

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  Don't worry about getting zapped: Hall assures that the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are "perfectly safe" -- in fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-Fi routers.
• If all goes to WiTricity's plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached, and electric cars will refuel while sitting on the driveway.
• When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology -- seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
• "The kids that are growing up in a couple of years will never have to plug anything in again to charge it."
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   Christopher Hooton is a Senior Reporter for the Independent online