Tuesday, October 21, 2014

RSN: Mississippi Locks Up More People Per Capita Than China and Russia Combined, ISIL Beheaded Two Americans, Mexican Drug Cartels Killed 293 Americans from 2007 to 2010




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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 6-Page Dissent of the Texas Voter ID Law Decision
Justice Ginsburg. (photo: AP)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Reader Supported News
Ginsberg writes: "The potential magnitude of racially discriminatory voter disenfranchisement counseled hesitation before disturbing the District Court's findings and final judgment. Senate Bill 14 may prevent more than 600,000 registered Texas voters from voting."
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Overwhelming Majority of Political Money Comes From Groups With Undisclosed Donors, to Conservative Efforts
Clyde Haberman, The New York Times
Haberman writes: "Beyond its durable imprint on American civic life, the Watergate scandal of four decades ago left its mark on political language. For one thing, that suffix will not go away. Commit a major folly, and you can count on some headline writer describing it as Whatever-gate."
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Harvey Wasserman | When Solartopia Transcends King C.O.N.G.
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch
Wasserman writes: "A green-powered future is our only hope. A planet run by King CONG—Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas—cannot be sustained."
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ISIS Cited as Michigan Village's Police Push for Secrecy
Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com
Ditz writes: "Oakley has 290 residents. They also have over 100 police, for some reason. Those police are also, more or less entirely anonymous. Who those police are or what they are doing is a mystery, even to the village trustees."
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Mississippi Locks Up More People Per Capita Than China and Russia Combined
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger
Mitchell writes: "The state had 686 inmates per 10,000 population in 2013, which was more than China's 121 and Russia's 475, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies."
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There Are Only 6 White Rhinos Left in the World, and Only 1 Breeding Male
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, Independent UK
Eleftheriou-Smith writes: "The northern white rhino has become a step closer to extinction after one of its last breeding males died in Kenya, leaving only six of the species now left in the world."
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ISIL Beheaded Two Americans, Mexican Drug Cartels Killed 293 Americans from 2007 to 2010
Musa al-Gharbi, Al Jazeera America
al-Gharbi writes: "While there other organized groups whose depravity and threat to the United States far surpasses that of ISIL, none have engendered the same kind of collective indignation and hysteria. This raises a question: Are Americans primarily concerned with ISIL’s atrocities or with the fact that Muslims are committing these crimes?"
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