Saturday, August 16, 2014

RSN: Study Shows the Madness of States Refusing to Expand Medicaid, Comcast-Time Warner Pay $132,000. to 'Honor' FCC Commissioner, With Merger Pending, The Forever Slump



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Paul Krugman | The Forever Slump
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "It's hard to believe, but almost six years have passed since the fall of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s."
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Comcast-Time Warner Pay $132,000. to 'Honor' FCC Commissioner, With Merger Pending
Alex Byers, Politico
Byers reports: "Comcast and Time Warner Cable are sponsoring a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at a time when the agency is weighing whether to approve a multibillion-dollar merger between the two companies."
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Congressman Wants to Stop Transfer of Military Weapons to Police
Colin Jeffery, Associated Press
Jeffery reports: "A Democratic congressman is introducing a bill to curb a Defense Department program that provides machine guns and other surplus military equipment for free to local law enforcement agencies across the country."
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Amy Goodman | James Risen, Surveillance and Obama's Threat to Journalism
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Goodman writes: "The Obama administration's espionage case against alleged CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling is expected to come to trial soon, six years after he was indicted. In addition to Sterling, also on trial will be a central pillar of our democratic society: press freedom."
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Joshua Holland | Study Shows the Madness of States Refusing to Expand Medicaid
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "The economic and human costs of conservatives' ideological crusade against the Affordable Care Act is difficult to overstate."
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2nd Wave of Isolated People Makes Contact With Outsiders in Brazil
Megan Gannon, LiveScience
Gannon reports: "Pushed out of their home territory by violence, a second wave of people who had been living in voluntary isolation in the Amazon rainforest has made contact with villagers in Brazil, according to an advocacy group."
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Dams Cause Climate Change, They Are Not Clean Energy
Gary Wockner, EcoWatch
Wockner reports: "People believe hydroelectric dams provide clean energy. It's not true."
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