Thursday, June 18, 2015

RSN: New NASA Data Show How the World Is Running Out of Water, The Walmart Web: How the World's Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes, Bernie Sanders on Obama's 'Biggest Mistake'



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Andy Borowitz | ISIS Confused by Trump's Hotel Analogies 
Donald Trump. (photo: Christopher Gregory/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "A spokesman for ISIS said on Tuesday that its leaders were 'genuinely confused' by the abundant hotel analogies in Presidential candidate Donald Trump's announcement speech, acknowledging that they were having a difficult time understanding how his colorful anecdotes about running a hotel empire translated into a strategy to defeat the terror group." 
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Bernie Sanders on Obama's 'Biggest Mistake' 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "According to Marshall Ganz, one of the architects of Obama's 2008 organizing strategy, Obama's campaign had 3,000 organizers who recruited thousands more local leaders, who then helped mobilize 1.5 million volunteers and 13.5 million contributors. They thought Obama meant it, and was going to ask them to stay involved and keep campaigning." 
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The Walmart Web: How the World's Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes 
Americans for Tax Fairness 
Excerpt: "A groundbreaking report reveals that Walmart has built a vast, undisclosed network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings." 
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Donald Trump's Tirade on Mexico's 'Drugs and Rapists' Outrages US Latinos 
Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK 
Gabbatt writes: "Donald Trump has been labelled an 'extremely silly man' by America's largest Latino civil rights organisation after claiming that Mexico is sending 'rapists' to the US." 
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How Many Die in Police Custody - And Why Don't We Know? 
Bloomberg 
Excerpt: "With every video that surfaces of questionable or shocking police conduct, at least two questions arise. The first is how exactly each incident happened. The second is how common such incidents are." 
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Targeted Assassinations Won't Stop Al-Qaida or ISIS 
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz 
Bar'el writes: "Killing of Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen could briefly affect group's local operations, but won't cause the organization to change ideology or moderate its ambitions." 
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New NASA Data Show How the World Is Running Out of Water 
Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post 
Frankel writes: "The world's largest underground aquifers - a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people - are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earth's surface." 
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