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Charles Pierce | The CIA's Willingness to Lie About Our Torture Regime

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In the most recent New York Review Of Books, there's an excellent interview about the now-largely-forgotten report from the Senate about how the United States government's regime of torture was developed, and about how it was operated, with Mark Danner."
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NYPD Under Investigation for Routinely Planting Guns on Suspects and Fabricating Circumstances of Arrests
Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times
Clifford writes: "A Brooklyn man who claimed the police manufactured gun-possession charges against him had his case dismissed on Thursday, amid two investigations into the practices of a group of police officers in the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush."
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Republican Net Neutrality Bill Would Gut FCC's Authority Over Broadband
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Brodkin writes: "Net neutrality legislation unveiled by Republicans today would gut the ability of the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the broadband industry."
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North Miami Police Chief Suspends Training Program After Mug Shots of Black Males Had Been Used as Targets
Union Gazette
Excerpt: "The North Miami Beach Police said Friday that it has suspended the sniper education program till a evaluation is conducted, right after reports showed that mug shots of African-American men have been becoming applied as targets at a shooting range for police instruction."
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Pope Makes Anti-Gay Marriage Comments in Philippines
Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News
Rocca writes: "Appealing to the traditional values of Filipino Catholic families, Pope Francis made one of his strongest calls as pope against movements to recognize same-sex unions as marriage."
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In US, There Are Twice as Many Solar Workers as Coal Miners
Kirsten Korosec, Fortune
Korosec writes: "SolarCity, the largest installer of residential solar systems in the U.S., nearly doubled its workforce last year, hiring 4,000 people to do everything from system design and site surveys to installation and engineering."
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Items Lost From Stone Age Found in Melting Glaciers
Marianne Nordahl, ScienceNordic
Nordahl writes: "Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks - lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago - are now emerging from melting ice."
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