Friday, May 1, 2015

RSN: Nine Things You Might Want to Know About the Massive Pacific Trade Deal, The Manhattan Project's Radioactive Legacy...., DOJ Report: At Least 4,813 Died After Arrest by US Police Between 2003-2009






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Andy Borowitz | Hillary Expected to Adopt All of Sanders's Positions by Noon
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Within minutes of Sanders's entry into the Democratic race, Clinton released position papers on trade, income inequality, national defense, and the environment that meticulously aped the Vermont senator's views on those matters."
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DOJ Report: At Least 4,813 Died After Arrest by US Police Between 2003-2009
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Excerpt: "Demonstrators in Baltimore candidly admit that although the uprising happening in their city was triggered by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, it is more so a response to the epidemic of police-involved deaths in their city and throughout the United States."
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No, Freddie Gray Didn't Kill Himself
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "Before the second prisoner was even in the police van, Freddie Gray asked the police for medical assistance. So you have to wonder why on earth a man who had just asked for help would then try to hurt himself - as the second prisoner supposedly concluded after he was picked up at the next stop a few minutes later."
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Feds Are Trying to Scare You Away From Using Encryption
Joshua Kopstein, Al Jazeera America
Kopstein writes: "For months, the FBI, the National Security Agency and an alphabet soup of other spooky agencies have been lashing out at tech companies that have responded to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations by starting to protect customers with stronger encryption. But it's increasingly obvious that the government's crypto panic is powered by fear, not facts."
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Malala Yousafzai Update: 10 Men Who Attacked Teen Sentenced to Life by Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court
Sneha Shankar, International Business Times
Shankar writes: "An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced 10 men to life in prison for plotting the attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012. The militants behind the attack on the Nobel Peace Prize winner and two other schoolgirls were identified and arrested last September."
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Nine Things You Might Want to Know About the Massive Pacific Trade Deal
E. Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America
Kim writes: "All this trade talk can seem an impenetrable thicket of arcane economics and alphabet soup. Here we provide answers to some basic questions."
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The Manhattan Project's Radioactive Legacy Still Haunts St. Louis
Ryan Schuessler, Al Jazeera America
Schuessler writes: "They all grew up in a neighborhood bordered by a suburban St. Louis creek that was contaminated with nuclear weapons waste for decades before any cleanup operations started. There may still be radioactive waste in the creek."
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