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FOCUS: Ralph Nader | Needed: Three Obama Speeches for the People
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "As has been said, democracy is not a spectator sport. It requires a motivated citizenry, along with rights, remedies, and mechanisms that facilitate people banding together as candidates, voters, workers, taxpayers, consumers and communities."
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Glenn Greenwald | Obama's NSA 'Reforms'
Inadequate, Cosmetic Gestures
Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK
Greenwald writes: "Now we have the spectacle of President Obama reciting paeans to the values of individual privacy and the pressing need for NSA safeguards. 'Individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress,' he gushed with an impressively straight face. ... But those pretty rhetorical flourishes were accompanied by a series of plainly cosmetic 'reforms.'"
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Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK
Greenwald writes: "Now we have the spectacle of President Obama reciting paeans to the values of individual privacy and the pressing need for NSA safeguards. 'Individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress,' he gushed with an impressively straight face. ... But those pretty rhetorical flourishes were accompanied by a series of plainly cosmetic 'reforms.'"
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After a
Prolonged Execution in Ohio, Questions Over 'Cruel and Unusual'
Erica Goode, The New York Times
Goode reports: "As the lethal drugs flowed into his veins in the Ohio death chamber, Dennis B. McGuire at first 'went unconscious' and his body was still, his daughter, Amber McGuire, said Friday. But a few minutes later, she said, she was horrified to see her father struggling, his stomach heaving, a fist clenching."
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Erica Goode, The New York Times
Goode reports: "As the lethal drugs flowed into his veins in the Ohio death chamber, Dennis B. McGuire at first 'went unconscious' and his body was still, his daughter, Amber McGuire, said Friday. But a few minutes later, she said, she was horrified to see her father struggling, his stomach heaving, a fist clenching."
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Dana Milbank |
Read the Bill? Oh, Never Mind
Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Milbank writes: "A very different Republican Party rushed a massive spending bill through the House on Wednesday, just 44 hours after it was posted. The bill was 1,582 pages and accompanying explanatory statements added 1,278 more, which means lawmakers had less than a minute to read each page, even if they didn't sleep."
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Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Milbank writes: "A very different Republican Party rushed a massive spending bill through the House on Wednesday, just 44 hours after it was posted. The bill was 1,582 pages and accompanying explanatory statements added 1,278 more, which means lawmakers had less than a minute to read each page, even if they didn't sleep."
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North Carolina
Abortion Ultrasound Law Illegal, Judge Rules
Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press
Dalesio reports: "A federal judge in North Carolina says a state law requiring women who want an abortion to have an ultrasound and then have a medical provider describe the image to them is a violation of constitutional free-speech rights."
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Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press
Dalesio reports: "A federal judge in North Carolina says a state law requiring women who want an abortion to have an ultrasound and then have a medical provider describe the image to them is a violation of constitutional free-speech rights."
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Stop-and-Frisks Plummeted 60 Percent in
2013
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress
Shen reports: "Newly minted Police Commissioner William Bratton announced Wednesday that recorded stops dropped 60 percent, from more than 533,000 in 2012 to 194,000 in 2013."
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Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress
Shen reports: "Newly minted Police Commissioner William Bratton announced Wednesday that recorded stops dropped 60 percent, from more than 533,000 in 2012 to 194,000 in 2013."
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Inaction on Climate Change Costly, Report
Warns
Justin Gillis, The New York Times
Gillis reports: "Nations have dragged their feet in battling climate change so much that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising, according to a UN draft report. Another 15 years of failure to limit carbon emissions could make the problem virtually impossible to solve with current technologies, the experts found."
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Justin Gillis, The New York Times
Gillis reports: "Nations have dragged their feet in battling climate change so much that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising, according to a UN draft report. Another 15 years of failure to limit carbon emissions could make the problem virtually impossible to solve with current technologies, the experts found."
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FOCUS: Julian Borger | The Truth About
Israel's Secret Nuclear Arsenal
Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "Despite the fact that the Israel's nuclear programme has been an open secret since a disgruntled technician, Mordechai Vanunu, blew the whistle on it in 1986, the official Israeli position is still never to confirm or deny its existence."
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Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "Despite the fact that the Israel's nuclear programme has been an open secret since a disgruntled technician, Mordechai Vanunu, blew the whistle on it in 1986, the official Israeli position is still never to confirm or deny its existence."
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