Saturday, July 11, 2015

RSN: Al Gore: Tackling Climate Change Will Help the Global Economy, Sanders, Warren Want Probe Into 'Ridiculous' Cable, Internet Prices, US Torture Doctors Could Face Charges After Report Alleges Post-9/11 'Collusion'



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Naomi Klein | A Radical Vatican? 
Pope Francis. (photo: Riccardo De Luca/AP) 
Naomi Klein, The New Yorker 
Klein writes: "When I was first asked to speak at a Vatican press conference on Pope Francis's recently published climate-change encyclical, 'Laudato Si,' I was convinced that the invitation would soon be rescinded. Now the press conference and, after it, a two-day symposium to explore the encyclical is just two days away. This is actually happening." 
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Greek MPs Back New Austerity Plan as Nation Faces Day of Judgment 
Ian Traynor and Graeme Wearden, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Despite a big parliamentary vote in favour of a deal with its creditors, Greece could be cut loose if it fails to win over EU leaders at a weekend of summits." 
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US Torture Doctors Could Face Charges After Report Alleges Post-9/11 'Collusion' 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "Leading group of psychologists faces a reckoning following repeated denials that its members were complicit in Bush administration-era torture." 
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FBI: Background Check Flaw Allowed Dylann Roof to Buy Gun 
Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "The gunman charged in the Charleston, South Carolina, church massacre, should not have been allowed to purchase the weapon used in the attack, FBI Director James Comey said Friday as he outlined a series of missed opportunities and incomplete paperwork that allowed the transaction to take place." 
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Sanders, Warren Want Probe Into 'Ridiculous' Cable, Internet Prices 
Jordain Carney, The Hill 
Carney writes: "The two, joined by Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler suggesting that because of limited options for consumers companies are able 'to charge ridiculous prices and add hidden fees.'" 
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Pope Apologizes for Catholic Church's 'Offenses' Against Indigenous Peoples 
Nicole Winfield and Frank Bajak, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "History's first Latin American pope 'humbly' begged forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales." 
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Al Gore: Tackling Climate Change Will Help the Global Economy 
Liam Casey, The Canadian Press 
Casey writes: "Al Gore said 99 per cent of California is in a drought, the Caribbean is also in a drought and the droughts combined with wildfires across western Canada and the United States show something is wrong, but renewable energy can help fight climate change." 
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